Sentence examples for unseemly exercise from inspiring English sources

In its 70-year history -- which has included such eminences as Einstein and the computer pioneer John von Neumann -- it never engaged in the unseemly exercise of removing one of its own.

This unseemly practice must end.

'* * * The thing in mind in the drafting of this section was to provide that review of state court action be had so far as possible only by the Supreme Court of the United States, whose review of such action has historical basis, and that review not be had by the lower federal courts, whose exercise of such power is unseemly and likely to breed dangerous conflicts of jurisdiction.

CEO succession all too often becomes at best an exercise in damage control and at worst an unseemly scramble that can hurt a company and destroy shareholder value.

It's regrettable that he belongs to a party that demonstrates an unseemly enthusiasm for keeping people from voting and for turning the exercise of democracy into a game won on technicalities.

However great a good it may be to have in the universe creatures who exercise libertatian freedom, this would seem a high and unseemly price for an otherwise sovereign God to pay for their existence.

As well as sparking this unseemly inter-generational outburst, what also comes out of the meeting is a creeping realisation that as a money-saving exercise, council tax reduction is totally counterproductive.

salaries unseemly.

"It's unseemly.

How unseemly, they say.

It feels unseemly.