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The hilarity of people worrying about toy safety/propriety is timeless.

Ofwat will be required to set rules that ensure companies appoint directors and chief executives, and allow them to remain in post, only when they meet the highest standards of "fitness and propriety".

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"I want my government to set the highest standard of propriety and integrity," the SNP leader said.

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According to the Cabinet Office, the PCG is responsible for "ensuring the highest standards of propriety and ethics across all government departments", as well as "overseeing constitutional policy and providing advice to ministers".

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Miller’s glorious Lina, a woman who rejects bourgeois propriety as beneath her, is one of Shaw’s great comic creations.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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