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improper
1. Poor health and high stress of plants are due to improper nutrition
2. Isn’t it a bit improper to have a
3. improper leadership of Israel by evil shepherds is discussed
4. Foods high in phosphorus but low in sulphur can lead to improper balance of these minerals in the body
5. Embarrassed at his lack of care he began to apologize when he heard Tarak robustly laughing at his improper outburst
6. nothing wrong or improper in eliciting the confession from
7. He could see her jaw was injured, and though he couldn’t have known about her other injury, he must have sensed it was improper to strike a girl’s chest
8. In the last chapter of the fourth book, I shall endeavour to shew that their sense is an improper one
9. When she’d hand him something, Andrastus took it quickly, as if it were improper for a brother and sister to let their fingers come in contact
10. It would be improper to relight the fire from Tragus’s lamp or brazier, so she went outside with a scrap of tinder and a copper knife
11. Whoever examines, with attention, the history of the dearths and famines which have afflicted any part of Europe during either the course of the present or that of the two preceding centuries, of several of which we have pretty exact accounts, will find, I believe, that a dearth never has arisen from any combination among the inland dealers in corn, nor from any other cause but a real scarcity, occasioned sometimes, perhaps, and in some particular places, by the waste of war, but in by far the greatest number of cases by the fault of the seasons; and that a famine has never arisen from any other cause but the violence of government attempting, by improper means, to remedy the inconveniencies of a dearth
12. Some improper regulations, some injudicious restraints, imposed by the servants of the East India Company upon the rice trade, contributed, perhaps, to turn that dearth into a famine
13. If bounties are as improper as I have endeavoured to prove them to be, the sooner they cease, and the lower they are, so much the better
14. The causes of decay in other branches of foreign trade, which, by Sir Matthew Decker and other writers, have been sought for in the excess and improper mode of taxation, in the high price of labour, in the increase of luxury, etc
15. These causes seem to be other monopolies of different kinds: the degradation of the value of gold and silver below what it is in most other countries ; the exclusion from foreign markets by improper taxes upon exportation, and the narrowing of the home market, by still more improper taxes upon the transportation of goods from one part of the country to another ; but above all, that irregular and partial administration of justice which often protects the rich and powerful debtor from the pursuit of his injured creditor, and which makes the industrious part of the nation afraid to prepare goods for the consumption of those haughty and great men, to whom they dare not refuse to sell upon credit, and from whom they are altogether uncertain of repayment
16. Thirdly, it seems, upon every supposition, improper to say, that the labour of artificers, manufacturers, and merchants, does not increase the real revenue of the society
17. The necessary instability of such a fund seems, however, to render it an improper one for the maintenance of an institution which ought to last for ever
18. If mean and improper persons are frequently appointed trustees ; and if proper courts of inspection and account have not yet been established for controlling their conduct, and for reducing the tolls to what is barely sufficient for executing the work to be done by them ; the recency of the institution both accounts and apologizes for those defects, of which, by the wisdom of parliament, the greater part may, in due time, be gradually remedied
19. The company had been suspected of restraining the trade and of establishing some sort of improper monopoly
20. As soon as writing came into fashion, wise men, or those who fancied themselves such, would naturally endeavour to increase the number of those established and respected maxims, and to express their own sense of what was either proper or improper conduct, sometimes in the more artificial form of apologues, like what are called the fables of Aesop; and sometimes in the more simple one of apophthegms or wise sayings, like the proverbs of Solmnon, the verses of Theognis and Phocyllides, and some part of the works of Hesiod
21. If they are not always properly educated, it is seldom from the want of expense laid out upon their education, but from the improper application of that expense
22. The moderation of the tax, however, renders this inequality of less importance; and it may to many people appear not improper to give some
23. The price had, it seems, before the tax, been a monopoly price ; and the arguments adduced to show that sugar was an improper subject of taxation, demonstrated perhaps that it was a proper one ; the gains of monopolists, whenever they can be come at, being certainly of all subjects the most proper
24. After all the proper subjects of taxation have been exhausted, if the exigencies of the state still continue to require new taxes, they must be imposed upon improper ones
25. But it ought to be remembered, that when the wisest government has exhausted all the proper subjects of taxation, it must, in cases of urgent necessity, have recourse to improper ones
26. equality, it was thought necessary to lay a tax upon this liquor, it might be taxed by taxing the material of which it is made, either at the place of manufacture, or, if the circumstances of the trade rendered such an excise improper, by laying a duty upon its importation into the colony in which it was to be consumed
27. Owing to the unaccountable delay in road-making during the dry days and the subsequent employment of improper measures in repairing washouts and ruts with brushwood and sand, to withstand the periodic downpours, even the light mortars could not be brought to the front before July 9th, and not one of the siege guns was landed
28. Poorly written applications, improper shutdowns, and freeze-ups often leave temp files behind
29. ―bad‖ taste in one‘s mouth or that a parent is setting an improper or ―bad‖ example for his or her children or that an individual has behaved uncharitably or ―badly‖ towards someone or that individual may feel unfavorably disposed or harbor ill or ―bad‖ feelings towards that person
30. That having been said, I neither seek to ―forgive‖, in the manner that such transgressions must be quickly taken to task, nor explain away improper conduct upsetting to thoughtful Christians who have been raised to
31. Improper registration (what apparently had happened to George) was the most common method employed, although abuse of Costa Rica’s misguided squatter’s rights laws was another popular ploy
32. ‘Perhaps these insects are doing something improper? Perhaps they’re not supposed to keep pets
33. ence that could have had critical consequences had the improper de-
34. With this it avoids the improper use of the offered income
35. Also, the new systematics avoids improper use of the products, it inhibits fraudulent actions, robberies or sale of those products in the market; besides, it recognizes and it localizes those objects in any region of the planet
36. improper use of the new systematics, frauds in
37. ' He looked as shocked as if I had suggested something improper
38. Very soon the Glen heard that the manse children had been having an awful fight in the graveyard and using most improper language
39. The Meredith children were given to "sitting all over the church" in this fashion and a great many people thought it very improper
40. 4 million in improper expenses were charged to the plan
41. improper personal relationship with a female civilian employee at the United
42. One of the main reasons for procrastination is improper time
43. "When anger comes on you or harshness know that he is in you; and you will know this to be the case also when you are attacked by a longing after many transactions and the richest delicacies and drunken revels and divers luxuries and things improper and by a hankering after women and by overreaching and pride and blustering and by whatever is like to these
44. When you have to correct them for a mispronunciation or improper use of
45. The most surprising thing about Leticia was her skill to promulgate the most ludicrous nonsenses in the most improper and inopportune moments
46. Making use of my histrionic skills, my words began to go out with a tone of modesty that was improper on me, without many inflections, given a touch of extreme humility to the monotonous character of my voice
47. She considered her sister's conduct to be improper
48. that they were not in the least to be blamed; but what they did do which was most damaging and improper was that, though keeping something back, they
49. This should be avoided as improper posture leads to serious damage such as breaking the spine
50. Some of the reasons behind the blisters are the tightly fitted bowling ball holes, poor measurements of the holes, as well as the improper release of the ball
