Sentence examples for seen as improper from inspiring English sources

But the administration has not pushed to do so because officials fear, for legal and political reasons, that it would be seen as improper interference.

For a lot of people, including these folk who were criticising Charlie Hebdo, questioning ideas was seen as improper, given the depressed condition economically of the Muslim community, as if you're sort of attacking people who are already vulnerable.

It might be seen as improper for a member of the intelligence community to meet with a journalist, or out of line for a national-security adviser to publicly break with his boss.

It's a far cry from the days when New York had hundreds of hat stores, during an era when it was seen as improper for a man to leave the house without a hat.

"Writing personally about sex was seen as improper, even shameful, especially if one was describing an emotional dependence with the socially inferior, which is what these relationships were between rich patrons and the young opera singers who worked at these places".

Charlie Savage reported in the Times that the Obama administration doesn't want to put a stop to the case, such as by pushing a plea bargain, because it would be seen as "improper interference".

Some officials at the site bristled at what they saw as improper interference from Washington.

But the documents unsealed Wednesday in federal court in Denver, first reported in The Rocky Mountain News on Thursday, claim for the first time that pressure on the company to participate in activities it saw as improper came as early as February, nearly seven months before the terrorist attacks.

The verdict, less than 48 hours before election day, left Democrats still fuming over what party leaders saw as improper political meddling, which caused polls to tighten across the country.

Their point — that the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church is too close to President Vladimir V. Putin for comfort — has been lost on their many detractors, and their act is not seen as brave, but improper.

Cultural officials also objected to what they saw as the improper use of a monument with an intrinsic universal value.