Emerson says, "I do not often speak on public questions.
Little interest was shown in public questions; the long strain had been removed, and the people were dazed about the future.
Higginson seems to understand the influence of the women, but not the reason for their interest in public questions.
But we deplore the absence of high moral purpose, as well as independence in its discussions of public questions.
He was not eloquent according to the canons of oratory; but he was widely intelligent, had given careful attention to public questions, and spoke with force and clearness.
He and Judge Collamer of Vermont were the most intimate associates of Mr. Fessenden, and the three were not often separated on public questions.
The Western custom of public meetings for the discussion of public questions is now an established Indian institution, and daily gives the lie to the idea that there is pollution in bodily contact with a person of lower caste.
Again, the idea of public questions, the idea of the common welfare, has come into being with the nineteenth century, and is quietly repudiating caste and giving to the community a solidarity and a feeling of solidarity unknown hitherto.
A friend of all good men, he enjoyed the confidence and esteem of all, even of those whose opinions or policy on public questions he felt constrained to refute or oppose.
Much opposition and even violence characterized these meetings; but they revived and again inaugurated the right of free speech on public questions.
His followers might ably defend his course on public questions, but what was it all worth if the people kept on shouting, "Hurrah for Jackson"?
The long struggle over slavery was now begun, and soon the annexation of Texas took the first place among public questions.
The problem is to induce these three sections to work together, and to sink their petty differences in the general interest, in short to unite as a party, aiming at the control of administration with a definite policy on public questions.
The worst effect is that they prevent the main parties from working out definite policies on public questions, and cause them also to degenerate into factions.
Mr. Bradford also gives a somewhat exaggerated idea of the importance of the force of personality when he declares that the mass of the people have no "views" on public questions; all they want is to be well governed.
I cannot in these daily addresses enter much into public questions.
I noted then the intelligent interest manifested by the masses of your people in public questions, and the enthusiasm with which you rallied to the defense of Republican principles.
Our Constitutions do not recognize fractional votes; they do not recognize the right of one man to count one and a half in the determination of public questions.
I cannot enter in any detail into the discussion of public questions; I would not at all put myself between you and these great, important issues.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "public questions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
