Sentence examples for civic ideals from inspiring English sources

In the ongoing war with Al Qaeda, America's civic ideals should not frustrate an effective defense.

"I admire your civic ideals and institutions," the Princess said, "and the glorious history of your land.

In the United States, "Americanness" (for idealists, at least) came to mean belief in American civic ideals; a kind of nation of the mind.

"A monument to the public spirit and civic ideals of the people," reads the inscription over the entrance to the Municipal Auditorium.

The fortified aspect of the place is emblematic, its high civic ideals lost in the menacing character of high fences, metal detectors and concrete bollards.

Rogers Smith, Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.

Her mother is the author of "The Hogg Family and Houston: Philanthropy and the Civic Ideal".

Football also reflects the civic ideal that residents of Canadian should take care of their own and strive for general excellence.

However buried and muffled, the civic ideal of games – that through them, we are learning how to balance our human agency with our fellows – still wins out.

Along the way, many have deplored the loss of a civic ideal, that lofty, ineffable notion that Mr. Cuomo called the New York Idea.

In fact, it wasn't until 1900 that the civic ideal of mass access trumped the elitist ideal of exclusivity in shaping the commercialization of the telephone.