Richard Attenborough

I very, very, very rarely lose my temper. I do get cross sometimes when encountering something that I feel is improper, that I feel is lacking in justice and equity, and this all sounds very pompous and over the top - but these are the things that really upset me: intolerance, prejudice etc. I suppose in more mundane matters, I'm impatient.

English Actor

Eliot Spitzer

As one who was a prosecutor for many years, I can tell you that having a tape recording of interrogations would help everybody. It would make clear if there had been improper pressure exerted on a defendant or witness, and it would also protect the interrogating officer from false claims that such pressure had been brought to bear.

American Lawyer

Dan Levy

To edit someone from your life must be a properly evaluated decision. After all, the act of distancing yourself is difficult and, if executed improperly, could prove even more troublesome than if you were to have done nothing at all. The key is to create the distance gradually - a 'fade out' as I like to call it.

American Comedian

Peter M. Brant

My whole life I've hated to lose, no doubt about it. I've been guilty of that since I was 6 years old, at camp. I have always played to win. That's who I am. But I never hurt anybody. The problem is when you're perceived as being too aggressive where you hurt somebody or do something improper.

American Businessman

Elias Hicks

In reading the scriptures of truth, we often put wrong constructions upon them, and apply them improperly; and I apprehend it has often been the case in relation to this portion, particularly that part in relation to man's seeking out many inventions.

American Clergyman

Maryanne Trump Barry

My personal opinions on any subject are really not relevant, not important, and to the extent that I might inject them, I am acting improperly as either a District Court judge or as an appellate court judge.

American Judge

Pete Seeger

I think these are very improper questions for any American to be asked, especially under such compulsion as this. I would be very glad to tell you my life if you want to hear of it.

American Musician

Octavio Paz

It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?

Mexican Poet

Michael Sheen

My chief gifts are - naturally good at all sports with a raw talent for pretty much everything, which if nurtured could develop into improper talent.

Welsh Actor

Tom Frieden

Using prescription drug monitoring programs is an important step in identifying patients who may be improperly using prescription painkillers.

American Public Servant

Use 'improper' to describe actions that don't fit work or formal situations, indicating unprofessionalism.

Professional Settings

What's 'improper' can vary between cultures; research and respect local customs when you travel.

Cultural Sensitivity

'Improper' can imply something is off-putting or tactless in social situations, offending sensibilities.

Social Context

Using 'improper' can also highlight bad timing or awkwardness in specific situations.

Timing Matters

In math, 'improper' is technical jargon; learn its definition separately from everyday English.

Math Specificity

'Improper' highlights errors in language that make communication less clear or effective.

Language Precision

 ahead and look through some cars and see if we can find some food in it mmm improper food storage and we'll go ahead and tow the car so the Bears can't get into it tonight I'm gonna move the ball so I got a warning yesterday they didn't clean it up they were due out today too not quite enough to really notice of

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 that most of transmission was because people were removing their masks improperly. And their hand got contaminated with the outside of the mask, and then they rubbed their nose. Bingo! They got SARS. It wasn't flying microbes. If you go online right now, you'll get so much phony-baloney information.

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 Why is that? Inadequate sanitation, poor protection of drinking water sources, and improper hygiene often lead to sewage and feces-contaminated water. That's the ideal breeding ground for dangerous bacteria, viruses, and parasites.

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 what we were doing was illegal they said that if a soldier told us that an Afghan woman needed a sewing machine to provide for her family that was an improper solicitation of gifts to violated ethics regulations crazy so military

Encouraging troops to be...

 their collections we're asking them to account for the violent histories of some of the objects in their collections by labeling their collections more truthfully we're asking them to return objects that were improperly acquired

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 These are not people you want to have a beer with. They have many of the attributes of psychopaths. Now there are other ways the system can be inhibited. One is through improper nurturing. So we've studied sexually abused women,

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 for fires to erupt. However, about 90% of wildfires are caused by human activity, such as campfires that become uncontrollable, improperly handled cigarettes, or arson. Although wildfires occur worldwide, they are most common

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 she raised her hand, and she says to me in broken Tamil and English, she said, "Well, apart from the fact that improper replication of the DNA molecule causes disease, we haven't understood anything else."

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 die these illnesses can originate at any point from farm to table contaminated water animals or equipment contain food unhygienic conditions can allow pathogens to grow improper temperatures

How Food Can Make Us...

 So a 12 year-old girl raises her hand and says, literally, "Apart from the fact that improper replication of the DNA molecule causes genetic disease, we've understood nothing else."