The Eastern provinces offer some of the clearest material evidence for the imperial domus and familia as official models of divine virtue and moral propriety.

He defaces, with a pen, the passages, in some precious volume, which do not meet his idea of moral propriety.

He was responsible for its well-being, reputation and legal and moral propriety.

The community at Coldingham were not renowned for their moral propriety, and Æbbe presumably had difficulties maintaining discipline.

And here all three were trying to put Blade out of commission without any regard for the moral or ethical propriety of their actions.

Commanders also need to take into account the legitimacy of their actions, based on the legal, moral, political, diplomatic and ethical propriety of the conduct of military forces, once committed.

Nevertheless, moral propriety and politesse dictated that only such highly sanitized versions as that of Ducis could be performed on stage.

Sometimes, a person can only properly affect events by using their own moral propriety, and not by carrying out orders.

Behavior regarded as opportunist in one culture may not be so regarded in another because of differences in norms of moral propriety.

Irina's orphanage-derived rawness spills over into open conflict with the sedate moral proprieties of the convent.