public-spirited

How To Use public-spirited In A Sentence

• She is a public-spirited person who is eager to correct the wrongs that we all see but we easily overlook.
• One just wonders how much further matters would have gone if these public-spirited individuals not been passing by at that time.
• 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
• 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.
• 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
• The public-spirited activity is one of important paths that business enterprise undertake righteous duty in Harmonious society.
• 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.
• Self-serving and public-spirited doctors alike want a break from top-down revolution. National Health Service: Dogma, democracy and the doctors | Editorial
• 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
• You're a public-spirited citizen and you want to see justice done. HOPE TO DIE