How To Use Public-spirited In A Sentence
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Policymakers must step in as the referees to determine how best to put this limited resource to its most public-spirited use.
Jonathan Spalter: The Spectrum Shot Clock
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He was an intellectual and moral touchstone, of matchless integrity, selflessly public-spirited and civic-minded in a way that is harder and harder to find.
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Despite phone calls and emails, our man behind this public-spirited deed was completely blanked by the software empire.
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Let us persuade some of our more public-spirited representatives to introduce in Congress a Concurrent Resolution stating that for all legal purposes a "person" shall be a natural person. i.e., a human being.
Paula Gordon: Who is "We"?
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Cotton, with an assist from this public-spirited pillar, has done his best to undo the damage caused by the hogwash.
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Any public-spirited citizen would have done the same.
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I admire the erudite and public-spirited members of the Montgomery County Board of Education.
Why do great school systems fear charters?
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Public-spirited citizens wrote to the papers, declaiming against the maintenance of such a danger to the community, and demanding that the United States government build a national leprosarium on some remote island or isolated mountain peak.
CHAPTER XXI
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Thinking of the beardie as a benign, public-spirited philanthropist is as out of date as flared trousers and Slade records.
A rocky ride in the Commons for bank sale | Simon Hoggart's sketch
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That would also be a public-spirited and civic-minded thing for them to do.
More hemming and hawing on Lents meeting procedure (Jack Bog's Blog)
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Where are the safeguards for those public-spirited people who call attention to low standards in high places?
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Many bus stops, pathways and pedestrian crossings appear to have been cleared by hand by public-spirited individuals.
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Sometimes, too, a public-spirited citizen, when advised of the lack of a good cyclopaedia, or of the latest extensive dictionary, or collective biography, in the library, will be happy to supply it, thereby winning the gratitude and good will of all who frequent the library.
A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries
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We are public-spirited, law-abiding citizens who should not have to pay for the hospital's shortcomings.
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Away from the world of wine-and-cheese openings and quickie television interviews, Gandhy's public-spiritedness draws him to causes like a moth to a candle.
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Pawlak said: "Mr Tsang and his girlfriend were extremely public-spirited in coming forward to help the police in their inquiries and therefore I would like that to be acknowledged in due course by way of a commendation and perhaps some financial reward.
Teenager convicted of attacking Malaysian student during London riots
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`Very public-spirited of him," remarked Kemp as he left.
A WORM OF DOUBT
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a public-spirited citizen
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You're a public-spirited citizen and you want to see justice done.
HOPE TO DIE
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One just wonders how much further matters would have gone if these public-spirited individuals not been passing by at that time.
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If we step on shore, the ‘Charadrius caruncula’, a species of plover, a most plaguy sort of “public-spirited individual”, follows you, flying overhead, and is most persevering in its attempts to give fair warning to all the animals within hearing to flee from the approaching danger.
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
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Now we think a public-spirited person is somebody with passionate opinions about public matters, one who signs petitions and becomes an activist for a cause.
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The Confucian view is that political leaders should be the most talented and public-spirited members of the community, and the process of choosing such leaders should be meritocratic, meaning that there should be equal opportunity for the best to rise to the top.
Confucianism vs. Irrational Voters, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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The public-spirited activity is one of important paths that business enterprise undertake righteous duty in Harmonious society.
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Seeing it on the ground, public-spirited churchwarden John Shardlow appropriately took it into nearby St James's church for safe keeping until he could arrange for its repair.
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Self-serving and public-spirited doctors alike want a break from top-down revolution.
National Health Service: Dogma, democracy and the doctors | Editorial
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Including youth in a real, substantive way in politics will lead to even more interest as they take their public-spirited nature into the political realm.
Charles Orgbon: We the People, We the Teens
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She is a public-spirited person who is eager to correct the wrongs that we all see but we easily overlook.
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You pick litter up in the park? That's very public-spirited of you!
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Many people pitied my commonsensical, public-spirited child for being raised by an antisocial naysayer like me.
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People generally yearn to be friendly, generous, and public-spirited - in short, altruistic.
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Any public-spirited citizen would have been.
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Thanks to a group of public-spirited citizens, the Krippendorf garden has been preserved.
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I thought, being a public-spirited sort of chap, that you two ought to meet.
THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
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I think of them then as public-spirited matrons, aunts indeed to all the little larvae that must be fed.
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Faced with continued economic challenges, many mayors are working to take advantage of every available resource – including the time and energy of public-spirited residents – to solve local challenges," Bloomberg said Wednesday during an appearance in Newark with Mayor Cory Booker to announce that city's program and discuss how the participating cities have tailored their volunteer efforts to their own needs.
Volunteer Campaigns Launch Nationwide
