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Example sentences for "public service"

  • When such volunteer social effort becomes a public service it is highly desirable that the trained women it demands for its staff should (some of them, at least) be married women.

  • Every year social effort once strictly of private provision and support becomes a public service, with organized supervision and standardized compensation.

  • A public service corporation, being constantly asked for favors, is a continuing opportunity for the political manipulator.

  • Men of high character and ability were enlisted in public service, and the Police Department, under Commissioner Woods, achieved a new usefulness.

  • It was in partnership with Gould and Fiske of the Erie, then reaping great harvests in Wall Street, and with street railway and other public service corporations.

  • Under our laws the right of a public service corporation to occupy the public streets is based upon a franchise from the city.

  • Both South Carolina and Virginia have empowered the railway or public service commission to fix all rates, including telephone and telegraph.

  • New York and Virginia now employ the more comprehensive phrase "public service" or "corporation" commission.

  • Van Buren, seeing that the Federalist party was at an end, was glad both to do a public service and to ally with his party, in the divisions of the future, some part of the element so finely represented by Rufus King.

  • The speech which he delivered on this subject was based upon the maxim, that, in all cases of public service, the less profit, the greater honor.

  • But when the arms of the legions were carried to a great distance from Italy, the general assumed the liberty of directing them against whatever people, and in whatever manner, they judged most advantageous for the public service.

  • The use of posts was allowed to those who claimed it by an Imperial mandate; but though originally intended for the public service, it was sometimes indulged to the business or conveniency of private citizens.

  • No man knows, when he cuts off the incitements to a virtuous ambition, and the just rewards of public service, what infinite mischief he may do his country, through all generations.

  • Finally, all business must be looked upon as a form of public service, and the convenience of customers scrupulously consulted.

  • They are organs neither of an impartial truth seeking nor of public service.

  • Standards of honor are blurred, the spirit of public service is almost lost sight of, and the cheap materialism to which our prosperous age is too easily prone flourishes apace.

  • He invested the same self capital in the commercial concern and in public service.

  • It made no difference then what had been the man's serious work in philanthropic organization and in public service; or that for war production he had offered the Wm.

  • He did as well at any other form of public service.

  • For "public service in the royal chapel," I was now to discover, does not mean that the public is admitted to the chapel itself.

  • Indeed, no man knows, when he cuts off the incitements to a virtuous ambition, and the just rewards of public service, what infinite mischief he may do his country through all generations.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    certain substances; commonly believed; pregnant women; public dinner; public documents; public education; public enemies; public entry; public feeling; public finance; public liberty; public ministry; public moneys; public order; public ownership; public place; public proclamation; public reception; public road; public schools; public servants; public speaker; public speech; publicly display; said sadly; study music