Sentence examples for thought proper from inspiring English sources

There must remain a suspicion in this case that Mr Jagger received a more severe sentence than would have been thought proper for any purely anonymous young man".

"The Negroes in question," he explained, "I found free when I arrived in New York, I had therefore no right... to prevent their going to any part of the world they thought proper".

There are also records of sacrifice, including human sacrifice, associated with the death of a ruler because it was thought proper for him to be accompanied in death with those who served him during life.

"The heads of the college thought proper to visit his chamber, and finding Hume's 'Treatise on Human Nature,' then recently published, the reverend inquisitors seized that heretical book, and severely reprimanded the young philosopher," a later memoir tells.

The poet had to follow strict rules laid down by the masters of rhetoric, rigidly observing the harmonious selection of similes thought proper to any one given sphere (four allusions to Qurʾānic figures, for example, or three garden images all given in a single verse).

The analysis shows that significant improvements in term of recovered exergy up to 1.6% in the examined scenarios can be achieved thought proper operation.

–Do you think "proper" spelling and grammar are important outside of Language Arts and language classes?

"I didn't think proper decisions were being made for me".

I think proper Moroccan lemons, from the shop, are too salty.

By Anthony Armstrong The New Yorker, July 27 , 1929P. 14 I do think proper contests might be organized in the different spheres of hotel service.

The government assigns the graduates with any jobs they think proper or necessary, and what the students want is not at all taken into account.