A distinguishing feature of these companies is that, being sanctioned by the legislature for undertakings of public utility, the policy of the law will not allow them to be broken up or destroyed by creditors.
He lectured about them before the "Society of Public Utility" of Geneva.
Moynier, president of the Genevoise Society of Public Utility, and the vice-presidency of His Highness Prince Henry XIII.
He says that "necessary," as applicable to a mean to produce an end, should be construed so as to produce the greatest quantum of public utility.
Terms are to be so construed as to produce the greatest degree of public utility.
Works of public utility or necessity were accordingly suspended, and the funds necessary for their completion diverted to the metropolis.
Public utility is the cause of all these variations.
But, it is said, expropriation on the ground of public utility is only an exception which confirms the principle, and bears testimony in favor of the right.
What is the law of expropriation on the ground of public utility, which everybody favors, and which is even thought too lenient?
Civil distinctions, therefore, can be founded only on public utility.
The one aims at private happiness, the other at public utility.
That he eventually succeeded in this may be judged by the fact that his family continued to inhabit their splendid residence until 1818, when the French government under the Restoration bought it for purposes of public utility.
No event could have given me greater pleasure, on a personal account, and motives of public utility conspire to make it agreeable.
Besides the important objects of public utility, which I am authorised to hope from it, I shall take pleasure on every occasion of testifying to you those sentiments of respect and esteem, with which I have the honor to be, &c.
Dear Sir, I have the honor to beg the attention of Congress upon a subject, which, though it appears personal, may bring about events of public utility.
If the Roman legists had seen this analogy, they undoubtedly would have hesitated less over the question of expropriation for the sake of public utility.
The right which the social pact gives to the sovereign over his subject does not exceed, as I have said, the bounds of public utility.
It keeps alive the name of the founder, and this vanity furnishes the strongest stimulus to the endowment of works of a religious character, and of public utility.
When I find such a general tribute of respect and veneration paid to the memory of that great man, I am astonished to see so few monuments of public utility left by other ministers.
It was Colbert that improved the marine, instituted manufactures, encouraged commerce, undertook works of public utility, and patronized the arts and sciences.
The rich are not at ease in spending their wealth only on themselves, and lavish it on works of public utility.
According to the metaphysics of hypocrisy it is held that he is doing a work of public utility.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "public utility" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
