public spirit

Example Sentences

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Developers are not going to forgo more lucrative options simply out of a sense of public spirit.

From Washington Post • Nov. 3, 2021

“With leadership comes criticism — whether from citizens of public spirit or personal malice, colleagues with conflicting visions or competing ambitions, or all of the above.”

From New York Times • Aug. 30, 2021

Perhaps the Ryder and Presidents Cup lose a tad of luster because match play is not as much a novelty, but those events are more fueled by public spirit and patriotism than playing formats.

From Golf Digest • May 7, 2020

"It may be the creation of a multimillionaire artist with his own agenda to pursue, but it has a real and generous public spirit."

From BBC • Sep. 30, 2016

The decline of public spirit, the love of gain of those in office, the plotting of disaffected persons, and the malevolence of factions, became widely spread, and in parts of the country were uncontrollable.

From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by Stark, James H.