Sentence examples for public bad from inspiring English sources

Private good, public bad just is not true.

They don't tell the truth in public — bad for morale, bad for them — but they know.

In essence, the Tories have a simple world view; private good, public bad.

But who counts as a polluter and what counts as a public bad?

But that's where the social conservatism comes in: liquor sales aren't a public good, but for many people, they're a public bad.

They wouldn't know how to say they're sorry to save their lives, as illustrated this week by their very public non-apologies for equally public bad behavior.

Mary Jo Leddy, the director of Romero House, a refugee reception center in Toronto financed by the C.A.W., said Mr. Hargrove "has a public bad-boy image sometimes, but at our meetings he's very committed and very polite".

Penalising public bads can even be a stealthy, roundabout way of funding public services; Ken Livingstone funded improvements in the public transport system, for example, by taxing congestion and then spending the money on more buses.

In his speech to the Labour party conference this week, he criticised what he sees as a Conservative belief in trickle-down economics and a simplistic "public-bad, private-good" ideology.

Well-reported news is a public good; bad news is bad for everyone.

The current clashes between Neo-Darwinians and Intelligent Design proponents presents the public with bad theology and bad science, both claiming to have found answers to everything.