Sentence examples for disinterested service from inspiring English sources

the yearning for pure disinterested service and the foul temptation of commerce.

Whether that is good news or bad depends largely on your tolerance for skinny jeans and disinterested service.

A few years later Political and Economic Planning found that even voluntary association activists – informed men and women with experience of dealing with government – considered that "people are only in local politics for what they can get out of it" and laughed at the notion "of disinterested service" amongst councillors.

As Alan Rusbridger, the Guardian's editor-in-chief, wrote to editorial colleagues on winning the award: "The Public Service category prize is the most prestigious of all the journalism prizes – rewarding 'disinterested and meritorious public service' with the Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal.

A report from November 1980 describes the minutes of the movement's recent executive committee meeting, which led Special Branch officers to note: "The movement is concerned at the falling interest shown by members and, due to their general lack of success, a number of people appear to be either disinterested or pay lip-service only to the ideals of the movement.

But no one ever doubted either their ability or their record of completely disinterested public service.

In his zeal for disinterested public service, he is one of an increasingly rare breed, and we should expect him now to emerge as an incisive spokesman for universities.

In June, 1918 The Times had received the first award of the Pulitzer Gold Medal for "disinterested and meritorious service" for publishing in full so many official reports, documents and speeches by European statesmen relating to the progress and conduct of the war.

They spoke of the difficulties some women had to overcome to attend ANC services: traveling long distances, a disinterested husband; a young woman very shy about being examined.

Academic prose is, ideally, impersonal, written by one disinterested mind for other equally disinterested minds.

He is not a disinterested party; he seeks on behalf of the mayor of London to run rail services in the capital.