Sentence examples for best citizens from inspiring English sources

I wish I had a country that could reward its best citizens.

Losing Russia's best citizens, in the politicians' eyes, is an acceptable price for power.

And what do our best citizens, the pundits, think it means?

Prohibition drove the rich and poor alike to speakeasies, where, as the New York Times noted, bootleggers met "our best citizens on equal terms as fellow law-breakers".

He has 26 years of N.F.L. experience, eight in Kansas City from 1992-2000, and is a top teacher as well as one of the game's best citizens.

A Texas officer told his wife to teach their children "a bitter and unrelenting hatred to the Yankee race" that had "invaded our country … [and] murdered our best citizens".

"He realizes that he wasn't the best citizen back then, and he knows he's got to do what he's got to do," he added.

ARTEST HONORED Nearly seven years after Ron Artest was at the center of the notorious brawl between the Pacers and the Detroit Pistons, he has been named the league's best citizen.

He served on George Washington's staff at Yorktown, and he returned to civilian life in 1783 after eight years of service that established him as one of the best citizen officers developed by the revolution.

Last month, it sponsored a contest to pick the two best citizen-journalism stories; the prize was a free trip to a conference held by Oh My News, in Seoul.

Kareem is our BEST citizen journo — Farah Saafan (@FarahSaafan) 5 Dec 12 Egypt's ON TV, which posted a live stream of the scene outside the palace on YouTube, also broadcast video of the president's supporters clearing the sit-in and putting up barriers to block the return of protesters to the area.