Sentence examples for unseemly practice from inspiring English sources

This unseemly practice must end.

"I would request that News International abandon the unseemly practice of whispering behind the back of a loyal and long-serving former employee.

While much attention has been lavished on his far-reaching executive order to curtail the unseemly practice of doling out state contracts -- known as pay to play -- Mr. McGreevey has also been wielding his legislative pen in less-noticed, areas.

Securities-litigation reform laws were supposed to end the race to the courthouse, an unseemly practice designed to win control over litigation by being the first to file.

Much the way trophy hunters display the horns of a prize buck but discard the carcass, Arader cut apart old atlases to retrieve and sell the maps separately, an unseemly practice that is known as book breaking.

And when state officials tried to crack down on these unseemly practices, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, instead of investigating, blocked their efforts.

The company is intended as an alternative to the unseemly practices that Ms. Henderson and others feel are widely prevalent in the college athlete recruiting process.

If an "explained award rule" were to be implemented, it would threaten to expose publicly some of the unseemly practices that take place in brokerage firms.

President Bush's penchant for slash-and-burn politics, learned at the feet of Karl Rove and the late Lee Atwater, is unseemly when practiced at home.

ISPs are under extreme scrutiny right now, both from regulators like the FTC (which will be put back in charge of them) to grassroots activists watching for any unseemly network practices.

These are among a number of some small yet influential organizations that are committed to shining a light on these unseemly business practices.