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  • To build up support for this idea, Sulamith published a column called “Gallery of Harmful Abuses, Rude Improprieties and Absurd Ceremonies among the Jews.”

    Emancipation Michael Goldfarb 2009

  • Alleged Improprieties Employees of the federal agency in charge of collecting royalties from oil and gas companies accepted gifts from industry representatives, engaged in "sexual relationships with industry contacts" and engaged in "alcohol abuse" while socializing with industry representatives, the Interior Department's top watchdog said.

    Stocks Recover Slightly 2008

  • Grammar-part, wherein we are allowed to be very defective, they will observe many gross Improprieties, which however authorised by

    A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue 2003

  • _Vices_, but the _Foibles_ or _Meannesses_ of _Persons_, And also upon the _Improprieties_ of other Subjects; And is directed, not to raise your _Detestation_, but your _Derision_ and _Contempt_; -- It being evident that _Immoralities_ and _Vice_ are too _detestable_ for

    An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744) Corbyn Morris

  • _DON'T_; or, Directions for avoiding Improprieties in Conduct and

    A Little Norsk; Or, Ol' Pap's Flaxen Hamlin Garland 1900

  • One is entitled “Scotticisms designed to Correct Improprieties of Speech and Writing,” by Dr. Beattie of Aberdeen.

    Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character Ramsay, Edward B 1874

  • Improprieties inside U.S. college football programs are nothing new, and neither is the suspicion schools may have hesitated to act on them, but past revelations often involved players' garden-variety crimes or circumventions of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's labyrinthine regulations.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed JAMES BRADSHAW 2011

  • Improprieties inside U.S. college football programs are nothing new, and neither is the suspicion schools may have hesitated to act on them, but past revelations often involved players' garden-variety crimes or circumventions of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's labyrinthine regulations.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed JAMES BRADSHAW 2011

  • Improprieties inside U.S. college football programs are nothing new, and neither is the suspicion schools may have hesitated to act on them, but past revelations often involved players' garden-variety crimes or circumventions of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's labyrinthine regulations.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed JAMES BRADSHAW 2011

  • Improprieties and corruption in a foundation that gets money?

    News - latimes.com By Ab 2012

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