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Example sentences for "public good"

  • How can it undertake or execute any liberal or enlarged plans of public good?

  • What consideration of public good demands it?

  • The object of the charter may be public good; so it is in all other corporations; and this would as well justify the resumption or violation of the grant in any other case as in this.

  • The description given in 1856 by one of them that their work was "a war of the community against individuals for the public good" had been proved to be absolutely true.

  • Public good is greater than private good, and hence it is not only lawful but laudable to expose health, or even life, for the advancement of science or the welfare of the community.

  • The act of Sampson may also be understood as indirect suicide lawfully committed for the public good of his country.

  • But there are times when the public good or some other sufficient reason calls for relaxation, and in such cases judges have the power to refrain from passing sentence or to suspend or respite a sentence already announced.

  • These expenses were incurred for the public good, and the public have enjoyed their benefit.

  • Organized, as they are, by the Constitution, they work together harmoniously for the public good.

  • It cannot now be necessary, that my name should appear in the affair of the proposed loan, but should it be in my power to be useful, Mr Adams may rely upon my zealous endeavors to promote that, and every other measure for the public good.

  • Every consideration called me to Spain; private as well as public good forbade a difference with M.

  • This was a tax imposed on my feelings by regard to public good; as a private man, I should have acted differently.

  • And that time which you must spend with your bosom friend; where friendship is not moderated and wisely managed, is perhaps taken from God and the public good, to which you first owed it.

  • Only the person by his voluntary bargain, hath made the other party instead of the magistrate, and authorized him (in ordinary cases) to dispose of the gain, for the poor or public good.

  • Not when they are for the public good, either in point of use, or ornament and honour, so be it no greater good be thereby omitted.

  • Your tongues will be instrumental to public good or public hurt.

  • Here is the grateful much-professing son Prepared to worship me, for whose sole sake I think to waive my plans of public good!

  • The wife is pushed back to the husband, he Who knows how these home-squabblings persecute People who have the public good to mind, And work best with a silence in the court!

  • In these works by competent hands important contributions will be made (as I have reason to know) to right knowledge of the subject dealt with by Paine in his "Public Good.

  • Had there been any belief at this time that Paine had been paid for writing the pamphlet objected to, "Public Good," it would no doubt have been mentioned.

  • But there is no faintest trace of advocacy in Paine's "Public Good.

  • He goes the full length of that position, and turns his private peculation into a public good.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    cannot endure; earth and; last evening; public affairs; public buildings; public business; public confidence; public enemies; public entry; public feeling; public finance; public good; public interest; public liberty; public life; public meeting was held; public meetings; public money; public moneys; public officer; public penance; public policy; public resort; public trust; public worship; trade and