Sentence examples for elevate public from inspiring English sources

In '54, the introduction of commercial TV struck a blow at Haley's idea of using the complete planning power provided by monopoly to elevate public taste.

One feature of The Spectator that deserves particular mention is its critical essays, in which Addison sought to elevate public taste.

It is hard to see how John Isaacs's giant bronze hand raising its middle finger will elevate public civility, but many works have a more complex urgency.

And I thought it unwise to elevate public expectations by making the man out to be the devil incarnate and then leaving him in place".

By Wolcott Gibbs The New Yorker, November 19, 1938 P. 13 The success of "Hellz-a-Poppin'" must have been a bitter blow to the critical profession in its campaign to elevate public taste.

To restore public support for the news, we need media owners who view their proprietorship as a public trust and who invest in bright, literate, professional reporters and editors and provide a work environment that rewards accuracy, fairness, intellectual curiosity and the dogged pursuit of stories that elevate public debate, not trivialize it.

Rather than elevating public opinion, advertisers pioneered techniques of manipulating it.

A Buffalo native and law school graduate, Mr. Russert elevated public discourse in America through his passion for government, the law and the public good.

Some of the mayor's critics have elevated public smoking to the status of a civil right, and talk about tobacco regulators as jack-booted thugs.

But in the release, he said, "With his significant political experience, Bob is an expert at elevating public understanding of complex issues".

Ernie Allen, the president and C.E.O. of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, told me that the Real Man campaign had helped: "It elevated public knowledge around the issue and advanced the cause".