Sentence examples for spirit of efficiency from inspiring English sources

An heir of the old sages of former times, Socrates held that the supreme ideal of man, and hence of education, was not the spirit of efficiency and power but the disinterested search for the absolute, for virtue in short, for knowledge and understanding.

"I am dismayed that we have a government which believes in attacking trade unions rather than working with them in the spirit of social partnership to improve efficiency, economic efficiency and productivity in our country," she said.

Among traditional and innovative thinking, BIM has brought the spirit of enhanced quality and efficiency into civil and architecture industries.

In the spirit of attempting to create efficiency, we have created more tasks for ourselves.

It said it had bought the shares in a "spirit of complete cooperation and economic efficiency".

Mr. Eastwood's film, scrupulously faithful to the letter and spirit of Dennis Lehane's novel, has the gritty efficiency of superior crime fiction and the somber weight of tragedy.

The idea of efficiency is a joke.

The Age of Efficiency is over.

Seals of efficiency were created.

There were questions of efficiency.

I then considered the concept of efficiency.