Sentence examples for unseemly use of from inspiring English sources
The trade demonstrated Citigroup's market muscle, but also angered European traders who criticized it as, at best, an unseemly use of that power.
For the mayor, it was a point of principle: the local tap water, direct from Yosemite National Park, is among the best anywhere, and in a town where even plastic bags are regulated, water delivered in plastic dispensers appeared to be an unseemly use of resources.
That backward mea culpa is just as poorly thought out as the Los Angeles County sheriff's unseemly use of his public office to promote a company's product.
Most economists say that using public funds to build professional sports facilities is an ineffective, inefficient strategy for promoting economic development -- and, one might infer, an especially unseemly use of scare resources in a city like Milwaukee where 29percentt of its nearly 600,000 residents live in poverty.
They involve, for the record, the unseemly uses of Barbie doll heads for sexual gratification and a giant jar of peanut butter as a murder weapon.
But it has acquired the informal name of "porn mode" because of the other, more unseemly use to which it is often put.
Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic national chairman, said the use of the phrase on the 91.6 million checks was unseemly and raised questions about whether government money was being used by the administration for political purposes.
WILLIAM LORTON Los Angeles, April 18 , 2013To the Editor: Re "The Senate Fails Americans" (editorial, April 18): The continued use of the Sandy Hook tragedy to promote gun control legislation is unseemly.
Such unseemly displays of consumption are well-known opportunities for bribery.
The N.C.A.A., at the upper echelon of Division I, is an unseemly universe of exploitation with administrators, coaches, boosters and players using one another in an exploitive dance.
Moyers has often used his power as a broadcast journalist to uncover the unseemly entanglement of big business and politicians.
