Sentence examples for the common weal from inspiring English sources

Would that be good or bad for the common weal?

They cultivated the idea of the common weal.

Those brilliant things were generally for the common weal.

Ms. Quinn said on Thursday that her sole interest was the common weal.

This characteristic is a double-edged sword for the individual and for the common weal.

Somehow, the threat to the common weal dissolved by September 2007.

The specific is government-that is, law; that is, codification of people's moral desires, together with enforcement of the law for common weal..

Alex Salmond recently spoke of London as the "dark star of the economy, inexorably sucking in resources, people and energy"; the influential Jimmy Reid Foundation's Common Weal project contrasts many Scots' ingrained belief in an essentially social-democratic society with what it calls "London orthodoxy".

But the enthusiastic Longmuir deserves credit for seeking a compromise between his 30 clubs and the SPL 12. His view is that Scottish football must consider the fate of all 42 clubs, that a more equitable share of cash would create a "common weal" thereby allowing the game to prosper.

The question is what the constitutive norms – the common European weal – are that express the distinctive relations of European citizens, and which could be the basis for solidarity among Europeans.

There has been a whole slew of new political classics arising from the Scottish independence referendum: Iain Machhirter's Disunited Kingdom, Lesley Riddoch's Blossom, Common Weal's Book of Ideas.