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Example sentences for: propriety

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When Clinton's lawyer David Kendall challenged the propriety of these briefings, Starr dismissively replied, "You're asking [about] press policy as opposed to constitutional issues."
Here is the split mind of a Henry James heroine, raised in this hemisphere with excessive propriety and then thrust, unprotected, into old and indecipherable European traditions.
Though it may be additionally unpenworthy, there is another "point" that heavily impels making . It is that of all the volumes, some eminent, some too much esteemed in the trail of "fashion," there is one included that so transgresses the hesitational boundary of propriety as to induce a feeling of stammering dyspepsia.
Since the late 1930s, the principle of freedom of contract has given way to the propriety of the state and federal measures to protect working people on the job.
Nickles questioned the propriety of "NATO's objectives," calling its goal of "access to all of Serbia ...