Sentence examples for common commonwealth from inspiring English sources

The title plays off "tall poppies," a common Commonwealth phrase, borrowed from the Greeks to describe persons of accomplishment or quality whose distinction can also make them targets.

Over 10,000 of the infantry would be organized based on the Western model, previously not common in Commonwealth armies.

The Holy Spirit is a wellspring of solidarity that undergirds commitment to building a commonwealth, common good society among individuals of differing backgrounds and moral commitments.

In a speech in 1950 to the Malayan Forum in London, he said: "The choice lies between a communist republic of Malaya and a Malaya within the British Commonwealth led by people who, despite their opposition to imperialism, still share certain ideals in common with the Commonwealth... if we [the returning students] do not give leadership, it will come from the other ranks of society".

Better such remedies, argues MacKinnon, than the obscenity approach to restricting porn common in Britain and Commonwealth countries, which she derides in her book: "It cares more about whether men blush than whether women bleed".

Put succinctly, the common health is the commonwealth.

If the presidency were to pass back and forth between two or three families in any Latin American nation we would call it an oligarchy... Our Founders created a republic and, being keen students of the history of republics beginning with Athens, they knew that placing special and narrow interests ahead of the common good and the commonwealth was the corruption that destroyed republics.

Grenada won independence from the UK in 1974 but retained the Queen as head of state, in common with a number of other independen Commonwealth countries.

Thank goodness we have such unpolitical judges to protect our status at the pinnacle of the common law world from uppity commonwealth nations.

Commonwealth for the common health.

This doctrine and the supporting training manuals were common to those of all Commonwealth countries.