The members of that body saw that the constitutional right of public officials to disregard the wishes of the people was incompatible with the right of the latter to drag them before the bar of public opinion.
This lack of confidence in the local governmental machinery, due to the irresponsibility of public officials, is certain to lead to the adoption of radical changes in the organization of our state and municipal governments.
The last of the vital questions arising in connection with the choice of public officials is the matter of encouraging the enfranchised classes to use the ballot.
In an important sense, good government is a matter of getting the right men into office, hence one of the most vital problems in American democracy has to do with the choice of public officials.
A great problem of party government is to prevent parties from unduly influencing the choice of public officials.
We are accustomed to the thought that in an Asiatic despotism a worker beginning a task is uncertain whether he will reap the reward, as public officials may at any moment seize upon the fruits of his labor.
Cheating, lying, breaking of contracts, bribery of public officials, and many similar acts may greatly increase individual incomes.
By this plan the government kept its money of all kinds in various depositories (or sub-treasuries) in charge of public officials.
This means inequality and hardship in the operation of the tax and, as a result, unceasing temptation to perjury by the taxpayer and to favoritism and graft by public officials.
Railroads in our country are owned by private corporations and are managed by private citizens, not, as in some countries, by public officials.
In Cuba, as in the Philippines and as in Porto Rico, Santo Domingo, and later in Panama, no small part of our success was due to the fact that we put in the highest grade of men as public officials.
That the practice was likely to arouse an unconscious bias in the minds of public officials is hardly debatable.
Public officials, from the ministers downwards, are amenable to the processes of the ordinary tribunals precisely as are all other classes of people.
No electoral scheme has ever been devised which, while grounded upon the principle of manhood suffrage, more effectually withdraws from the people the actual choice of public officials, local as well as national.
The inspector has charge of the examination of the branches, and this work is so carefully and thoroughly done that examination by public officials is not considered necessary, or regarded as desirable by most Canadian bankers.
The notes are a first lien on all the assets of the bank that issued them, and must be redeemed on demand at the head office and at such other places as are designated by a committee of public officials known as the Treasury Board.
Everett and Seattle who were also beaten and mistreated or who witnessed the scenes; by physicians, attorneys, public officials, members of craft unions, and by deputies who hoped to make amends by testifying to the truth for the defense.
To those who go about claiming that political action, as extolled by the party, reduces itself to the production of public officials, you will oppose a flat denial.
The assumption is so general that the State invariably stands behind the private detective that few seem to question it, and even the courts frequently recognize them as quasi-public officials.
I am referring to political science as expounded to future business men, lawyers, public officials, and citizens at large.
All that public opinion can do then is to organize a hearing by public officials to hear the proof of wickedness.
The anti-Graft Prosecution press insisted day after day that bribery of public officials, while bad, is the most common of crimes and the most difficult to prove; that San Francisco had tried to convict, had failed and might as well give up.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "public officials" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
