Together, communities are greater when the commonweal is the central concern. From Wordnik.com. [What Pulls Us Apart] Reference
Public money should only be spent in support of our mutual intersts - or what used to be known as the commonweal - in either good or bad economic times. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
It is of interest that the term commonwealth is derived from the medieval English word "commonweal" which means common well-being. From Wordnik.com. [Towards Commonwealth Unity through the Sims Travelling Professorship] Reference
Certainly no more solid than the duty of Congress to attend to the "commonweal" of the people. From Wordnik.com. [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference
In olden times they used it in a synonym for the general welfare -- in the "commonweal" or the "commonwealth.". From Wordnik.com. Reference
Congress was created as a place where the 'commonweal' was the business of the day and that wealth was supposed to include all people in the civil body politic. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
Lest he should call our commonweal. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1] Reference
What, madam, are you there? the king and commonweal. From Wordnik.com. [The Second part of King Henry the Sixth] Reference
If so, then are we partners in some one commonweal. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
His commonweal through the links of fatal necessity. From Wordnik.com. [Consolation of Philosophy] Reference
For example, I believe in taxes, America and the commonweal. From Wordnik.com. [Sudden I'm The Bad Guy] Reference
The greater good, the commonweal, take precedence over individualism. From Wordnik.com. [Tea Parties, Taxes and Torture Served] Reference
For which other commonweal is it, that all men can be said to be members of?. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
Should such detail be prohibited under the guise of "protecting the commonweal?". From Wordnik.com. [Computer Underground Digest Volume 1, Issue #1.17] Reference
That said, this is not a matter of lasting significance to the commonweal of our nation. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary Spokesperson Wolfson Strongly Denies Campaign Officially Pushed Obama Turban Pic] Reference
And that would damage badly the commonweal -- not that Wall Street cares, though it should. From Wordnik.com. [Carla Seaquist: Recovery Without a Reckoning] Reference
They seek the narrow advantage of a particular establishment status quo; we seek the commonweal. From Wordnik.com. [Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Obama Memo: Hillary "Pulling Out All The Stops" To Win South Carolina] Reference
These, with the commonweal they represented, were now threatened and must be protected at all costs. From Wordnik.com. [The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore] Reference
Part of why I support Obama is that I find this mindless fearmongering so deleterious to the commonweal. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary And Obama Square Off Over Terrorism And Fear] Reference
The fact that the so-called opposition party is AWOL on this issue is probably a boon to the commonweal. From Wordnik.com. [Impeachment is too important to leave to the Democrats] Reference
In Washington's view, enlightened politicians tried to transcend those interests and uphold the commonweal. From Wordnik.com. [The Feuding Fathers] Reference
When will we realize that education and health are issues that benefit both the individual and the commonweal?. From Wordnik.com. [Margo Hammond and Ellen Heltzel: Beyond "Team of Rivals": Books to Stock on Air Force One] Reference
The man who serves a particular state or a particular ownership in despite of the human commonweal is a Traitor. From Wordnik.com. [The Shape of Things to Come] Reference
Such licentious proceedings have good-natured concessions to wrong requests multiplied to the hurt of the commonweal. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863] Reference
With the very best and noblest members of her commonweal, just as with our ancient coinage, and the newly-minted gold. From Wordnik.com. [The Frogs] Reference
Such an imminent lack of narration, of the search for common ground, may have disastrous consequences for the commonweal. From Wordnik.com. [Is This the End of News?] Reference
They're dedicated to the commonweal, recession-proof, and educate folks who'll have warm feelings toward the neighborhood. From Wordnik.com. [A Good School] Reference
But what do they care for the commonweal, as long as they can save, as they fancy, each man his own dirty soul for himself?. From Wordnik.com. [Westward Ho!] Reference
Banishment-literal or metaphorical - could be invoked when small, high-minded communities pulled together for the commonweal. From Wordnik.com. [To Abuse Is Human, To Repent Is Rare] Reference
This lack of focus on the commonweal of a society rather than focusing on those who can lift other sup has been short-sighted. From Wordnik.com. [U.S. Indebtedness is Rising by over $1 Trillion a Year] Reference
Shouldn't they be thinking about governance, coming up with new ideas for the commonweal rather than being flogged by the press?. From Wordnik.com. [Erica Jong: Politics By Ordeal] Reference
Now, what thou hast said of thy services to the commonweal is true, only too little compared with the greatness of thy deservings. From Wordnik.com. [Consolation of Philosophy] Reference
A college freshman who asks a high school junior on a date poses little threat to the commonweal -- even if that date ends in bed. From Wordnik.com. [Jacob M. Appel: Embracing Teenage Sexuality: Let's Rethink the Age of Consent] Reference
By analogy this theological notion was then applied to the body politic, which was called “the mystical body of the commonweal.”. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Americans experience, with Republicans unwilling to consider the greater good, the commonweal, the United States has become a weakened nation. From Wordnik.com. [Republicans Twitter. Jindal Rebuttal; A Tweet] Reference
Freshwater but me and my brother; and that whatsoever we shall bring you back shall be kept as secret as the commonweal and your loyalty shall permit. From Wordnik.com. [Westward Ho!] Reference
All other tangible things, they assumed, belonged inalienably to the world commonweal — in the usufruct of which every human being was manifestly a shareholder. From Wordnik.com. [The Shape of Things to Come] Reference
But Plato sent of his disciples and friends, Aristonymus to the Arcadians, to set in order their commonweal, Phormio to the Eleans, and Menedemus to the Pyrrhaeans. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
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