What's the difference between ownership and propriety?

Ownership


Definition:

  • (n.) The state of being an owner; the right to own; exclusive right of possession; legal or just claim or title; proprietorship.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It isn't share ownership but the way people are managed that's critical.
  • (2) Profit for the second quarter was £27.8m before tax but the club’s astronomical debt under the Glazers’ ownership stands at £322.1m, a 6.2% decrease on the 2014 level of £343.4m.
  • (3) Andrew and his wife Amy belong to Generation Rent, an army of millions, all locked out of home ownership in Britain.
  • (4) 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.
  • (5) Ownership is not the problem, affordable homes for people are what are urgently needed and will, it seems, need a new government.
  • (6) Unethical conduct in research can be divided into five categories: 1) falsification of data, in which the researcher manipulates results, provides data without experimentation, or biases the results to give a false impression of their value; 2) failure to credit others (former colleagues, students, associates) for research results or ideas; 3) plagiarism, use of other's published material (ideas, graphs, or tabular data) without permission or credit; 4) conflicts of commitment or interest in which work or ownership in a private firm in some way conflicts or detracts from the duties to the institution they represent or allows private gain through the individual's employment at the institution; 5) biased experimental design or interpretation of data to support public or private groups that have provided financial support for research.
  • (7) It said a government investment of £12bn could build 600,000 shared ownership homes, enough to give almost half of England's private renting families the opportunity to buy.
  • (8) The BBC should not be forced to close any channels or axe any programmes as part of any review of plurality and ownership in the media industry, according to a submission the broadcaster has filed with media regulator Ofcom .
  • (9) Concomitant with this changing mix of ownerships, revised reimbursement plans are being proposed for psychiatry.
  • (10) And for him, that project has to start with a history lesson: he wants to see Labour relearn the lessons of 20 years ago, when Tony Blair fought off objections from the trade unions to redraft Clause IV of the party’s constitution, which had committed it to securing “common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange”.
  • (11) Their task was to reduce the size of the properties and change the tenure mix from private rented to shared ownership or open market housing.
  • (12) It is a conflict over ownership of the process of revolutionary change, one that has already brought violence back to Egypt's streets – and which Fahmy's project is wading straight into the middle of.
  • (13) Results suggest the importance of management effectiveness, regulatory climate, and hospital ownership (investor owned or nonprofit) as predisposing conditions of contract management.
  • (14) The transport secretary, Philip Hammond, indicated that the government had no appetite for the kind of structural tinkering that broke up British Rail and rushed the system into private ownership in the 1990s.
  • (15) "Our ownership model means that we can take a long-term view and we are as driven, determined and ambitious as ever to modernise our business.
  • (16) What we need is international action now, and that’s precisely what we are doing today with real concrete action in the war against tax evasion.” He said the transparency rules on beneficial ownership showed that Britain and other governments were working to shine a spotlight on “those hiding spaces, those dark corners of the global financial system”.
  • (17) The sale of Vodafone's 45% stake in its US joint venture to its partner Verizon Communications would end 13 years of an often fractious shared ownership.
  • (18) Japan is already embroiled in a long-running row with China over ownership of the Senkaku islands in the East China Sea, and has backed the Philippines and other South East Asian nations alarmed by the Chinese military build-up near disputed territory in the South China Sea.
  • (19) It is a complex action, as there are a number of landlords covering private apartments and affordable shared-ownership flats.
  • (20) Local ownership and opportunities for action Organisations that use data to effectively support improvement know that you often need to break it down to the local level to understand variation and make it amenable to action for staff.

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.