Sentence examples for serious impropriety from inspiring English sources

The public interest includes, but is not confined to: i) Detecting or exposing crime or serious impropriety.

Subterfuge, where necessary, is OK, as is a public interest defence that includes "detecting or exposing crime or serious impropriety".

The Independent revealed in March that the Government was being accused of "serious impropriety" over the handling of its valuable Communications Roster.

He said: "I was making continuous inquiries of our legal department and the editor, absolutely satisfied there were major public issues at stake there, public money at stake and serious impropriety, and in a few cases criminality".

"The newspaper believed that what it published on March 30 , 2008was legitimate and lawful and, moreover, that publication was justified by the public interest in exposing Mr Mosley's serious impropriety".

News organisations can claim public interest to justify publication of reports that "detect or expose crime or serious impropriety" or "prevent the public from being misled by an action or statement of an individual or organisation".

He's also quashed, midstream, a federal coal program review that already had identified serious improprieties.

While denying serious improprieties, Mr. Rangel concedes that he has not lived up to the "higher standard" expected of members of Congress.

"We understand that these allegations of serious improprieties are unproven and unrelated to Sequoia," a Sequoia spokesman said in a emailed statement.

This may indeed happen but all too often it does not and some cases have revealed serious improprieties in the jury room, for example by making decisions on a simple majority of 7-5 instead of the statutory requirement.

In January, the inspector general of the Energy Department cited Wackenhut, a subsidiary of Group 4 Securicor, which is based in London, for serious improprieties in conducting antiterrorism drills at a Tennessee weapons complex.