public weal

At what point does helping a special group hurt the public weal?

What was the "need to know" that served the public weal?

The public weal is in second place if it is considered at all.

"But private feelings must defer to public weal, in this case."

All private interests must yield to the public weal.

The guardians of the public weal were soon alarmed.

The League of the Public Weal was routed in its every objective.

Would the public weal be damaged?

Sure the Saudis have money to burn, but the rich are rarely parted from their millions by disinterested concern for the public weal.

A press dedicated to the watchdog role is discovering that it lacks the tools to adequately monitor corporate managers of the public weal.

Mighty defenders of the public weal, superheroes have gained fans since the terrorist attacks Sept. 11, retailers maintain.

Or, perhaps,' he added, in a still gentler voice, 'her fear is that I may expose myself to danger for the public weal.'

Public weal may refer to:

Francis II became a member of the League of the Public Weal.

He joined a rebellion called the League of the Public Weal, led by Louis's brother Charles.

Not only is a detective story a perfectly legitimate form of art, but it has certain definite and real advantages as an agent of the public weal.

Dissatisfied, Charles joins with other feudal nobles in the League of the Public Weal.

The dukes forced King Louis to sign the agreement, which officially ended the League of the Public Weal.

But this centralization was opposed by the League of Public Weal, whose nobles sought to restore their feudal prerogatives.

This is a great opportunity for professional football to put its money where its money is, to decry violence in a way that benefits the public weal.

The King from Eltham I intend to steal, And sit at chiefest stern of public weal.

The important point is that the drug firms are corporations which do not exist for the public weal, no matter how much they try to convince the public otherwise.

However, King Louis attempted to avoid the treaty, as well as to split the League of the Public Weal by diplomatic means.

To the extent that any coherent image has formed, it is of a cabal of newspaper executives, police chiefs and politicians conspiring against the public weal.

In 1464 the bishop joined the League of the Public Weal and fell into disfavour with the king, who seized the temporalities of his see.