Sentence examples for were considered improper from inspiring English sources

The buildings at first did not have stores on the ground floor -- retail tenants, no matter how swell, were considered improper in a respectable residential building.

Miss Anscombe, who did not like to be called Mrs. Geach, smoked cigars, wore trousers when they were considered improper for women and was said sometimes to eat beans from a tin can while lecturing.

Often, marriage to someone outside the municipio is considered improper.

It's considered improper to admit them into history.

The loans, called "launch aid," are considered improper if they are provided at below market rates.

Of course, to some, wearing the Ottoman medals might be considered improper.

But the invitation list is considered government property and it is considered improper to use it for political purposes.

For example, in India it is considered improper to discuss business in the home on social occasions.

Such trading, known as market timing -- which is considered improper but is not illegal -- often uses portfolio information that is not available to other shareholders, and the frequent trading increases costs for other investors.

Howard M. Schilit, president of the Center for Financial Research and Analysis in Rockville, Md., said that the drug companies' accounting could be considered improper only if the wholesalers were allowed to return medicines they purchased.

As a single woman, she was told by family members that she could not travel to Cairo on her own, publish, give interviews, or have her photograph published in newspapers because it was considered improper and dishonorable.