How to Use common good in a Sentence

common good

noun

• Much of the data is shared publicly for the common good of the region.
  — Worth Sparkman, Axios, 12 Sep. 2024
• Democracy and elections, Vermeule says, have no special claim to delivering the common good.
  — Charles King, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2023
• In the end, someone has to make hard decisions for the common good.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 1 Feb. 2024
• Ever since the greed-is-good 80s, the very ideas of public service and the common good have gone out of the culture.
  — David Schonbrunn, The Mercury News, 4 June 2024
• Yet sadly, the United States has betrayed the common sense of the common good.
  — Michael Kazin, The New Republic, 8 Sep. 2023
• Everyone who serves in a public role has a duty to unite us, to serve the common good, not divide us.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 29 Feb. 2024
• This whole process is indicative of how the leaders of the DC area fail to consider the common good of the region and instead engage in a race to the bottom.
  — Teo Armus, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2023
• How does democracy inspire a sense of mutual obligation to a common good shaped and informed by needs that arise from the bottom up?
  — Richard K. Sherwin, Baltimore Sun, 19 Jan. 2024
• Within our reach in 2024 is the chance to reclaim the America envisioned by our Founders, an America united in common good for all.
  — Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 14 Jan. 2024
• The Moon will make a final sextile to alchemical Pluto in Aquarius, showing us how to use our abilities for the common good.
  — Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 29 Mar. 2024
• How will your community, organization, or business be part of the ‘charge’ to boost solar for the common good of our country?
  — Nicholas Wyman, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• Everyone has their own definition of utopia, but one key aspect must be collaboration in the name of the common good.
  — Charlie Jane Anders, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
• Through 150 years of public institutions that serve the common good through science, public health has transformed human life.
  — J. Nathan Matias, WIRED, 26 Mar. 2023
• He was joined by Silicon Valley billionaires who are libertarians and don’t want the government to build for the common good.
  — Caroline Frost, Deadline, 21 July 2024
• How can tough decisions be made while protecting a community’s sense of common good?
  — Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 June 2024
• Our goal is to identify leaders whose accomplishments over their long careers will serve as an inspiration to others who seek to advance the common good.
  — Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 12 Jan. 2024
• The essence of President Biden’s foreign policy is to lay a new foundation of American strength so that the country is best positioned to shape the new era in a way that protects its interests and values and advances the common good.
  — Jake Sullivan, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
• But unlike the government, which is focused on the common good and accountable to taxpayers, private companies are not as transparent.
  — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
• At the heart of fascist political strategy was the expansion of state control over public and private life under the facades of popular support and common good.
  — Eden McLean, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2023
• Today, finding consensus among 190 members is much more difficult, especially as trust among different groups of countries is eroding and faith in the ability to pursue the common good is at an all-time low.
  — Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
• The advertisement highlighted the Jewish man’s considerable net worth, listing the dollar amount he’d be forced to surrender to the common good under the senator’s proposal.
  — Becket Adams, National Review, 10 Apr. 2023
• Renowned for its commitment to advancing the common good, the school offers a comprehensive, world-class program that equips students with the knowledge, skills, and experience needed to tackle real-world challenges.
  — Foreign Affairs, 14 Sep. 2023
• Promoting a specific religion, as this law does, is unfair, discriminatory and adds nothing to key goals of policy, such as to protect us or promote the common good.
  — Washington Post, 27 June 2024
• Ultimately, achieving the common good will require a level of shrewdness and pragmatism, often missing in climate debates.
  — Michael Sheldrick, New York Daily News, 5 Feb. 2024
• In an era when Americans had never seemed more divided and distrustful, county governments, at their best, helped define what remains of the common good. Ottawa County stood out for a different reason.
  — Patrick Marley, Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2023
• The magic ingredient, the authors argue, is trust: Norwegians trust one another and trust their government, which can thus effectively promote the common good.
  — Andrew Moravcsik, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2021
• With social profit orientation, financial profits and benefits for the common good are equally prized.
  — Leonard L. Berry, The Conversation, 3 Sep. 2024
• These videos dramatized a broader tension between personal entitlement and the common good.
  — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2023
• Going forward, the country needs more flexible pandemic playbooks that adapt to local contexts and respect both individual freedom and the common good.
  — Asa Hutchinson, STAT, 6 June 2024
• Von Dewitz is an ambassador for the Economy for the Common Good, which measures entrepreneurial success in financial profits and contribution to the common good.
  — Carlton Reid, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024