proprieties

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• He put officers in uniforms, he stressed safety and efficiency, and he preached the twin virtues of public safety and police propriety.

• No other part or the propriety of the transaction itself is even in question.

• In an interview this week, Egeland strongly defended the propriety of delivering aid to unwholesome parts of northern Syria.

• Presidents and potential presidents have often been accused of crossing some line of propriety.

• The Weather Underground, while we certainly crossed lines of propriety and legality, we never killed or injured anybody.

• But for the conservatives, and for Scalia most of all, legal propriety is absurdly quaint.

• Walking up to the edge of propriety and stepping over the line are all a rite of passage to self-definition.

• They shall plan how this may be done with due propriety, and shall advise us of their action.

• I do it, persuaded of the propriety of the step, and satisfied that all will go well with him yet.

• Further questions respecting her family, &c., were answered with equal directness and propriety, and with manifest truth.

• Without having represented to your husband the propriety of first consulting his father, on whom he is dependent, I think?

• Whatever argument can be employed to establish the propriety of engaging vocally in any religious service is here available.