Sentence examples for was something improper from inspiring English sources

There was something improper, he felt, about pouring millions of dollars into the completion of a stone monument when — in the city and in that very neighborhood — there were so many urgent social and human needs.

A lot of the stock was sold to Qatari funds and investors, and there have been investigations for years regarding whether there was something improper — like Barclays lending the money used to buy the stock — in those transactions.

A previous book, "Fools for Scandal" contended that the national press, notably The New York Times, was gulled into believing that there was something improper about the Clintons' involvement in the Whitewater real estate venture, and then dishonestly kept the story alive to cover up journalistic excesses.

Well, it does rank, but on the basis of knowledge of the subject, and if you think that's not important, there's something improper about the way you think".

He and Brown also laid out in clear terms the reason for the recent decrease in depreciation and amortization, and subtle assertions that there may be something improper.

It was something different.

"If he didn't know he was doing something improper, why did he kick out the attorney general and the vice president of the United States and the leaders of the intelligence community?

But Picard, in his filing, seeks to persuade the judge in the case of what he argues is a critical point: in his efforts to recoup hundreds of millions of dollars from Wilpon and Katz, he does not have to prove they knew Madoff was a fraud, only that they ignored a whole range of evidence over many years that he might have been doing something improper or illegal.

"Challenging the public is almost something improper".

"In this particular case, this isn't just something that is improper, this is something that is illegal".

YES, there is something unseemly, if not exactly improper, about Michael Ashcroft being treasurer of the Conservative Party.