Sentence examples for propriety over from inspiring English sources

The Uefa president, Michel Platini, has claimed a conspiracy, including "some parties who buy and sell TV rights", is behind attacks on his propriety over his vote for Qatar to host the 2022 World Cup.

The titles of the episodes are crafted to drop a scrim of propriety over the indignities of modern life: a dysfunctional rich family tells its story in "Millions of Wealth, Millions of Hatreds"; the sad tale of an affair is titled "An Encounter with My Husband's Close Female Friend".

So, I began to wonder about the history of political expression that we have inherited that asserts claims to respect and propriety over the rather cacophonous debates that characterized much of political discourse throughout the 18th and 19th centuries.

Keith's house, on the other hand, is a tidy fortress of English propriety and composure, presided over by a marmoreally composed mother and patrolled by a jolly authoritarian of a father, who calls his son "old bean" and keeps the bayonet he wielded to "run through" five Germans while an officer in the Great War.

Bourgeois propriety finally triumphed over Swiss secrecy.

Richard is a patronizing narcissist who values propriety and decorum over heartfelt emotion.

The report adds significant new evidence to previously disclosed material showing that a wide swath of the financial industry chose profits over propriety during the mortgage lending spree.

In every presidential election since at least 1988, retired senior uniformed support for presidential candidates has led to debate within military circles over propriety.

But it is also leading to buzz of a different kind, about the propriety of turning over a public museum to a private collector who also happens to be a museum trustee and a chief patron of the curator.

The law stated: "No cremations of human remains shall take place except in a crematorium of the opening of which notice has been given to the secretary of state". The law may have been an attempt to stop the birth of a private cremation industry, though concerns over propriety are likely to have played a part.

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