Sentence examples for for private advantage from inspiring English sources

The national pastime is no longer baseball, it is rent-seeking -- bending public power for private advantage.

Such barnacles on big government institutionalize the scramble for government favors; these agencies are a standing incitement to bend public power for private advantage.

Wayne Hawley, deputy counsel to the city's Conflicts of Interest Board, said yesterday that he could not comment on the specifics of the case but said: "What a public servant cannot do is use his or her official position for private advantage.

The authority of the prince, so the argument went, was to be exercised not for his private advantage or gratification but for the greatness of his state and the welfare of his people.

The charter prohibits a public servant from using "his city position for the private advantage of the public servant or of anyone associated with the public servant".

The latter owed much to his sagacity at the battles of Arques and Ivry and in many sieges, but Biron was believed to be prolonging the war for his private advantage.

140, a contract to put electric wires underground was held to be for the private advantage of the city as a legal personality, distinct from considerations connected with the government of the state at large, and that with reference to such contracts the city must be regarded as a private corporation.

The charter prohibits a public servant from using "his city position for the private advantage of the public servant or of anyone associated with the public servant". It doesn't say that the city official taking the action does so with the intention of benefiting himself or his associate.

In a decision that was viewed as a setback for opponents, the city's Conflicts of Interest Board on Wednesday ruled that council members could vote on the measure without violating the prohibition on using their office for "personal or private advantage".

Were they in some ways data for public consumption, or only private advantage, or were they simply a colourful expression of experience?

She said she would allow Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices and would "rein in" government subsidies for private Medicare Advantage plans.