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The federal appeals court in Atlanta ordered that the execution should be delayed for at least 30 days, while a Georgia court of appeals imposed its own stay to give the courts more time to consider the propriety of the single lethal injection as a method of killing.

Werritty is expected on Friday to have a second meeting with Sue Gray, director of propriety and ethics at the Cabinet Office, officials said.O'Donnell will submit his report to Cameron next week, they added.

Jolene and Kenton – thank heavens for some propriety round here – are actually getting married.

"One of the dangers is that emphasis on propriety and good can be constricting.

Which adds another unhelpful, from a propriety-respecting viewpoint, layer of meaning to "bring it off".

The distinction is not about the merits of private rather than public ownership, but about the necessity and propriety of government intervention – supporting the motor industry, ensuring the security of gas supplies from eastern Europe and, on the evidence of the last year, protecting its citizens against the greed and incompetence of the financial sector of the economy.

Certainly a principled, ruthless, strategic grip may be needed to restore a sense of propriety and purpose.

Indeed, there was a sense that what made the Galliano elements in this collection sing was that De la Renta, with his innate sense of propriety, imposed an aesthetic structure in which the Galliano madness was never allowed to spiral out of control.

"I consulted the cabinet secretary, I consulted the [Cabinet Office] director for propriety and ethics, and, of course, the House of Lords appointments commission now looks at someone's individual tax affairs before giving them a peerage," he said.

The Bangalore principles of judicial conduct (pdf) set out six principles to guide the proper discharge of the judicial office: independence, impartiality, integrity, propriety, equality, and competence and diligence.

She added: "The two people [in the story] who are looking down at her from the window both agree on the desirability and propriety of the desirability of shooting her there and then, but they have to argue about the reason for doing it while taking tea together.

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