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How to use the word impropriety in a Sentence?

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The public needs to have trust in their representatives, and our current financial disclosure system is primed for partisan exploitation. Instead of attempting to work within a system we know is broken, let’s put in place simpler requirements that eliminate even the suggestion of impropriety.

Naree Ketudat

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

One way to mitigate the risk here in the state of Florida is to avoid any situation that would even result in any perception of impropriety.

Jason Pirozzolo

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It was a motion to disqualify (Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner) based on the appearance of impropriety. Essentially that she politicized these charges.

Joel Schwartz

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

CLICK HERE FOR THE FOX NEWS APP The court papers also include a photograph that has been in circulation since 2015 showing Andrew with his arm around Giuffres bare waist in London in 2001. Giuffre said she was 17 at the time the photo was taken. Photo from 2001 that was included in court files released last week shows Prince Andrew with his arm around the waist of 17-year-old Virginia Giuffre who says Jeffrey Epstein paid her to have sex with the prince. Andrew has denied the charges. In the background is Epstein's girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell. (U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals) Buckingham Palace has previously denied allegationsthe prince had sex with Giuffre, and told The Sun that Andrew was not a party to the U.S. proceedings in which his name had appeared and denied any illegality had occurred. Any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors is categorically untrue.

Buckingham Palace

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Read MoreStone knows nothing about Russian Collusion, WikiLeaks collaboration or any other impropriety related to the 2016 election which I thought was the subject of this probe.

Roger Stone

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This behavior has hurt and is hurting the President, which hurts the country, when you are in a position of authority as he is, enormous power of being the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, you can not have appearances of impropriety and the hits just keep on coming.

John Kennedy

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I am not aware of any impropriety. Special Counsel is subject to oversight by the Department of Justice and I’m not aware of any violations of those rules, appearance is, to some extent, in the eye of the beholder. We apply the department’s rules and regulations, and career ethics attorneys provide us counsel on that.

Rod Rosenstein

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The way I was going to approach talking to him about this subject, which I knew he didn’t want to talk about, was people in the movie talk about rumors of sexual impropriety by one of the characters. At like minute 42, one of the characters says ‘can you separate the artist from the rumors about him?’ How would you answer that question? That was going to be my tack.

Stephen Colbert

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Despite their claims, there is no fraud, no corruption, no mismanagement, no lies, no impropriety.

Didier Drogba

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

At the very least, this irregular contract extension has the appearance of impropriety.

Paula Donovan

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I wish we did have that much money to give to Greek charities, we don't. There's no impropriety.

Mark Arey

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

However, for the avoidance of doubt, any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors is categorically untrue.

Buckingham Palace

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

At the very least, it creates the potential impression of impropriety.

Michael Guttentag

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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