Sentence examples for public disservice from inspiring English sources

In these chapters Yergin's somewhat bland and noncommittal presentation is a public disservice.

Without a disclaimer, the retouchers and those who hire them do a public disservice by setting impossibly high standards for impressionable people.

While Beyer Blinder Belle, the New York firm selected in the competition, has tweaked these plans, the failure to attribute authorship is a public disservice.

Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen did a great public disservice in bellowing against the Obama lawyers: "Would most Americans want to know if the Justice Department had hired a bunch of mob lawyers and put them in charge of mob cases?" None of the lawyers who defended Hamdan were hired guns for anyone, happy to resort to every dubious trick in the book.

The media did us all a great public disservice yesterday -- and don't go looking for an apology for their crimes and misdeeds.

So, while the HFT people claim they are providing the markets with liquidity, just as specialists did in the days of pre-electronic trading and most of the Wall Street establishment has embraced this story, it seems obvious that HFT is a scam and a public disservice.

That may be so, but neither should they be public-disservice announcements, projecting images based on fantasy, without including some sort of disclaimer; e.g., "This photo has been retouched".

"Companies do the public a disservice by not revealing when these things happen," he said.

"We'd be doing the public a disservice by selling it now".

Patrick Holden, a farmer and friend of the prince's, said: "The Guardian is doing the public a disservice by campaigning for the release of these letters.

"I'm not trying to ban all dissenting voices but we are doing the public a disservice by treating them as equal, which is not the case".