Sentence examples for tests of propriety from inspiring English sources

Permanent secretaries have a duty to ensure spending decisions in their departments meet the tests of propriety, value for money and feasibility.

The group, part of the Richard III Society, which in 2012 began the search for his remains in conjunction with the university and Leicester City council, said the tests "raise serious questions of propriety and ethics".

We've been here before: A movie pointedly tests what seems to be an established boundary of propriety, and rhetorical battle lines are drawn.

He has pretty much ignored the conflict-of-interest questions inherent in such a duchy; he tests the limits as he goes along, skirts along the edge of propriety and greets each day with brio.

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At this, Coleridge suffered a rare fit of propriety.

Does that kind of communal voice of propriety still exist?

There was a disregard of the facts and of propriety.

It offends his sense of propriety.

I've never given much thought to the difference between English notions of propriety and Dutch notions of propriety.

The conservatory also reminds visitors of changing views of propriety.