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Example sentences for "public business"

  • Rambouillet united superior merit; and that, combined with an unusual taste for literature, he possessed an extraordinary knowledge of public business.

  • I resigned on the 12th of March, and that resignation was notorious to every one conversant in public business, and the intention communicated to your Grace on the 2nd of March.

  • Its duties, so far as public business is concerned, consist in appointing members of select and standing committees.

  • But the standing orders are by no means a code of procedure, for they cover only a fraction, and so far as they relate to public business a small fraction, of the subject.

  • Then come what are called "matters taken at the commencement of public business.

  • Their power was great; they had been long versed in public business.

  • He had, from the commencement of his reign, applied himself to public business after a fashion unknown among kings.

  • If this be true, education is primarily a public business, and only secondarily a specialized vocation.

  • Education is a public business with us, in a sense that the protection and restoration of personal health or legal rights are not.

  • After this period, public business is frequently transacted by the King in his own study, wherein he is attended by his private secretary, Colonel Taylor.

  • Such a Dissolution, however, could not be undertaken at this moment for the sake of public business.

  • At break of day he would rise with the rest, and work either in the vineyard or at the plow; from thence return again to the town, and employ his time with his friends, or the magistrates in public business.

  • About midnight, he called up two of his freedmen, Cleanthes, his physician, and Butas, whom he chiefly employed in public business.

  • Public business, besides being retarded by the disgust of the commons against the tolerating maxims of the court, met with obstructions this session from a quarrel between the two houses.

  • One who turns official or public business to private advantage; hence, one who performs low or mercenary work in office, politics, or intrigue.

  • Defn: Formerly, among Teutonic nations, a meeting of the notables of a state for the transaction of public business, such meeting being a modification of the ancient popular assembly.

  • On More's return to England from his foreign mission, he had been obliged to throw himself again into the vortex of public business.

  • He had been rapidly drawn into the vortex of public business.

  • Lord Halton in 1669, afterwards assisting his brother, the duke, in the management of public business in Scotland.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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