Sample Sentences forpublic goods (auto-selected)
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He likes to make a dollar same as anyone but he also has guilt, same ideas of public good, cultural patrimony, blah blah blah.† (source)
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It was Arthur's accepted role to lie squelching in the mud making occasional demands to see his lawyer, his mother or a good book; it was Mr. Prosser's accepted role to tackle Arthur with the occasional new ploy such as the For the Public Good talk, or the March of Progress talk, the They Knocked My House Down Once You Know, Never Looked Back talk and various other cajoleries and threats; and it was the bulldozer drivers' accepted role to sit around drinking coffee and experimenting with union regulations to see how they could turn the situation to their financial advantage.† (source)
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He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.† (source)
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I have always placed the public good above any personal consideration.† (source)
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But the thought that he was making a sacrifice to the public good filled him with satisfaction.† (source)
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They say rival parties disregard the public good.† (source)
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"This measure will cost you and me our seats," young Adams remarked to a colleague, as the select committee completed its work and its members made their way to the Senate floor, "but private interest must not be put in opposition to public good."† (source)
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But one need not oppose abortion on moral or religious grounds to feel shaken by the notion of a private sadness being converted into a public good.† (source)
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There are times when it may be needful for certain private rights to give way to the requirements of a larger public good.† (source)
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Is he a poor creature then, as he does nothing for the public good?† (source)
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He added, "The town has done well in the way of cleansing, and finding appliances; and I think that if the cholera should come, even our enemies will admit that the arrangements in the Hospital are a public good."† (source)
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It is true that Robert d'Estouteville was a good soldier, that he had loyally raised his pennon against "the league of public good," and that he had presented to the queen a very marvellous stag in confectionery on the day of her entrance to Paris in 14... Moreover, he possessed the good friendship of Messire Tristan l'Hermite, provost of the marshals of the king's household.† (source)
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On reaching the entrance, the younger men in advance made way for their seniors; and the whole proceeded along the low, dark gallery, with the firmness of warriors ready to devote themselves to the public good, though, at the same time, secretly doubting the nature of the power with which they were about to contend.† (source)
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We aim at a petty end quite aside from the public good, but our act arranges itself by irresistible magnetism in a line with the poles of the world.† (source)
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Mr. A, to a sound understanding, has always appeared to me to add an ardent love for the public good.† (source)
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It is a just observation, that the people commonly intend the public good.† (source)
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