What's the difference between owned and propriety?

Owned


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Own

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Community owned and run local businesses are becoming increasingly common.
  • (2) In the UK, Coca-Cola owns Innocent smoothies while PepsiCo has Tropicana.
  • (3) Neil Blessitt Bristol • We need to establish what the legal position is with regard to the establishment by the government of a private company co-owned by the Department of Health and the French firm Sopra Steria.
  • (4) The Guardian neglects to mention 150,000 privately owned guns or that Palestinians are banned from bearing arms.
  • (5) The Weinstein Company, which Harvey owns with his brother Bob, lost rights to the title on Tuesday following a ruling by the Motion Picture Association of America's arbitration board.
  • (6) Sainsbury’s revealed on Tuesday that it had made an approach to buy Home Retail , which also owns DIY chain Homebase, and sources expect the company to return with another bid.
  • (7) Shenhua Watermark Coal, a subsidiary of the Chinese state-owned Shenhua Group, is waiting for final approval from Hunt for a $1.2bn open-cut coalmine on the edge of the plains, a little more than three kilometres from Hamparsum’s property.
  • (8) The letters, seen by Guardian Money, state that the French-owned company is conducting a review of customer records to make sure all its information is up to date.
  • (9) Norwich Ownership Delia Smith and her husband Michael Wynn Jones own 53.1% of the club’s shares; deputy chairman Michael Foulger owns approximately 16% Gate receipts £12m Broadcasting and media £70m Catering £4m Commercial & other income £12m Net debt Not stated; £2.7m bank overdraft, no directors’ loans.
  • (10) According to unconfirmed reports, he made up to £3m a year through the years of boom and bust and he now owns a £4m home in Fulham and another worth £2m in Chelsea.
  • (11) Carmon Creek is wholly owned by Shell, which said it expected the decision to cost $2bn in its third-quarter results due to impairment, contract provision, redundancy and restructuring charges.
  • (12) The company was “owned” by four bearer shareholders, which gave it an extra degree of secrecy.
  • (13) He explained that in Iraq , vehicles loaded with explosive devices only had their hazard warning lights on.” When Fitzsimons applied for a job in Iraq with the security firm Armour Group Security , owned by G4S, he didn’t tell his family.
  • (14) Waco, Texas, will forever be known for the siege that began in February 1993 when agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms raided a compound owned by the Branch Davidian religious sect to investigate allegations of weapons hoarding.
  • (15) Fenway, which also owns the Boston Red Sox baseball team, bought Liverpool for £300m in 2010 and pledged to return the club to the top of English football, following what was then a 20-year gap since the club last won the top flight.
  • (16) Davies is understood not to be seeking substantial money either for the club itself, which he owns via Fildraw, a private trust registered in the tax haven of Bermuda.
  • (17) Most of the money, says WDM, was used to buy shares in Bumi , the troubled London-listed firm co-founded by financier Nat Rothschild that owns large stakes in some of the biggest mining projects in East Kalimantan.
  • (18) The relative efficiency of investor-owned and tax-exempt hospitals in the product market for hospital services is examined as the free cash flow theory is used to explore capital-market conditions of hospitals.
  • (19) According to the latest available ABS data, which is for 2013-14, 72% of investment property assets are owned by, and 52% of investment property debt is owed by, households in the top 20% (ie the richest one-fifth) of the household wealth distribution.
  • (20) The club train on a council-owned facility and so, when the pitches are not playable or there are other things on, they sometimes have to look elsewhere to stage their sessions.

Propriety


Definition:

  • (n.) Individual right to hold property; ownership by personal title; property.
  • (n.) That which is proper or peculiar; an inherent property or quality; peculiarity.
  • (n.) The quality or state of being proper; suitableness to an acknowledged or correct standard or rule; consonance with established principles, rules, or customs; fitness; appropriateness; as, propriety of behavior, language, manners, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) While ruling that there had been improper use of Schedule 7 powers, the judge commented: "It was clear that the Security Service, for entirely understandable reasons, was anxious if possible to get information which could not be regarded as tainted by torture allegations or which might confirm the propriety of a control order."
  • (2) These results, as well as our considerations regarding the latent time between therapy and lung reaction, and some trials on laboratory rodents allow to speak of a radiogenic pneumopathy with the proprieties of a late reaction characterized by a pneumonitis appearing previously and changing into pulmonary fibrosis.
  • (3) But when that verdict is given, it should be recalled that, after a shaky start, parliament gave the matter due and dutiful consideration; that it fulfilled its constitutional function properly and, for the most part, with civil propriety.
  • (4) And this is the mainspring of so many of his stories, novellas, and his one novel, Beware of Pity : the clash between propriety and desire.
  • (5) There was no way the Bush administration would want independent auditors to publish a report into the financial propriety of its Iraqi administration while the CPA was still in existence and Bremer at its head still answerable to the press.
  • (6) Saying that he did not know more about the data destruction beyond what has been reported, Earnest said it was "hard for me to evaluate the propriety of that."
  • (7) But is it really so bad that Lydia refuses to conform to the strict and suffocating conventions of female propriety?
  • (8) Additionally, non-parametric methods were applied to these data in an effort to confirm the propriety of the model.
  • (9) McElroy and Webb had raised questions about the legal propriety of the federation's "No 2" accounts, which are said to contain £35m held by most of the 43 regional federation chiefs.
  • (10) An examination was made of the propriety of the existing legal provision on permissible threshold limit, of 37 degrees C in the coal mine in Japan.
  • (11) No black man could be elected with Trump’s life story (what levels of personal propriety a black woman would have to attain to be taken seriously don’t bear thinking about).
  • (12) The absorption spectra of the ethanol extracts of the pigment in each group were similar and this result supported propriety of the classification by biological characteristics.
  • (13) But this is not only a question of parliamentary propriety.
  • (14) Through these new reporting methods, communications providers will be permitted to disclose more information than ever before to their customers.” The new arrangement addresses a major grievance held by Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook and LinkedIn, which all joined a coalition called Reform Government Surveillance in order to pressure the administration into reassuring their customers about the propriety and legality of giving vast amounts of data to the NSA, FBI and other government agencies.
  • (15) Certainly, compared with the chaos surrounding the search for a new chair of the BBC Trust, the Ofsted appointment is a model of propriety.
  • (16) Finally, in the light of present day litigious trends, the question of the propriety of the policy is posed.
  • (17) That didn't seem to me to be an answer, since Trintignant is not talking about a bedside visit but about the propriety of making a spectacle out of decay and death.
  • (18) In the letter, Hays said that he was not consulted by the chapel staff on the plan and that there are “serious questions about the wisdom and propriety” of allowing the Adhan from the chapel tower, as the chapel “maintains an explicit Christian identity and mission”; he argued that “Christianity and Islam stand in significant theological tension with one another,” and that there would be “global repercussions” to allowing the Adhan to be broadcast from the chapel tower.
  • (19) He also appeared to be launching his threatened "tsunami" on Fifa, making a string of claims against the Fifa president's propriety.
  • (20) Although there is still further material to be checked, I am already clear that there are areas where the current guidance on propriety and the management of Ministerial Private Offices needs to be strengthened.