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Example sentences for: improper
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That's where it says that the federal investigator who gave Hoffa the green light fined him and several of his running mates in the last union election more than $40,000 for receiving improper campaign contributions, and held that Hoffa "did not testify accurately" about his personal involvement in the preparation of campaign finance reports.
Political fallout from the scandal: 1) The Senate expanded its investigation to include "improper" as well as illegal conduct in the 1996 elections.
The van der Waals, bond, angle, dihedral, and improper dihedral parameters for all the ligands were adopted from the Hetero-compound Information Centre-Uppsala HIC-Up http://xray.bmc.uu.se/hicup [ 55 ] . The water molecule under the flaps present in all complexes was included in all steps throughout this study except for 1hvr, where the structural water was removed in the preparation of the protease to be docked with the ligand (the ligand of 1hvr, which is a urea-based inhibitor, does not bind a water molecule in this position).
Its main definition in the Random House reads, “proscribed by society as improper or unacceptable: taboo words ,” which I believe is a lot closer to what the editors were seeking than Vulgar .
But, to show that our language is improved, and that those people have not a just value for the age in which they live, let us consider in what the refinement of a language principally consists: that is, either in rejecting such old words, or phrases, which are ill sounding, or improper; or in admitting new, which are more proper, more sounding, and more significant.
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