Public-service Sentence Examples

I ought to get a public service medal.

He remained, however, loyal in sentiment to the house of Savoy, and, after the restoration of the king of Sardinia in 1814, he continued in the public service.

In 1792 he entered the public service during the administration of General Dumouriez.

The family of Thun-Hohenstein, one of the wealthiest of the Austrian nobility, which has for more than 200 years settled at Tetschen, in Bohemia, has given several distinguished members to the Austrian public service.

After his retirement from the public service in 1863 he supported in the Bohemian Landtag and the Austrian Reichsrat the federal policy of his brother Leo.

The first was the chaotic confusion of the finances resulting from the maladministration of the national resources since the deposition of Dom Pedro II., and the corruption that had crept into every branch of the public service.

Young Treitschke was prevented by deafness from entering the public service.

He had from the first been on intimate terms with Talleyrand, and retired from the public service when the latter fell out of the emperor's favour.

The chapel (restored) is used for public service.

In the summer of the next year he took an active part in the formal organization of the Republican party in the state, and at the opening of Congress in December began a long career of public service.

Petersburg; Catholic and Uniate Church property sequestrated from 1836 onwards; the Lithuanian Statute, which had remained the law of the land through four centuries of union with Poland, replaced by the Russian code in 1840, while prominent natives, debarred from public service in their own country, were forced to emigrate or exiled to Siberia.

To promote the ends he had in view he suggested non-importation, instituted the Boston committees of correspondence, urged that a Continental Congress be called, sought out and introduced into public service such allies as John Hancock, Joseph Warren and Josiah Quincy, and wrote a vast number of articles for the newspapers, especially the Boston Gazette, over a multitude of signatures.

Reinstated in the public service in 1816, he was appointed governor-general of Siberia, for which he drew up a new scheme of government, and in 1821 entered the council of state.

Under the present system, therefore, there is a biennial election (in even-numbered years) of a governor, a lieutenant-governor, a secretary of state, a state comptroller, a state treasurer, an attorney-general and a state engineer and surveyor; and the governor appoints, subject to the approval of the Senate, a superintendent of public works, a superintendent of state prisons, a superintendent of insurance, a superintendent of banks, a commissioner of excise, a commissioner of agriculture, a forest, fish and game commissioner, a commissioner of health, a commissioner of labour, a state architect, a state historian, a state librarian, two public service commissions, a civil service commission, a board of charities, a commission of prisons, a commission in lunacy, three tax commissioners and several other boards and commissions.

The regulation and control of such public service corporations as own or operate steam, electric or street railways, gas or electric plants, and express companies were, in 1907, vested in two public service commissions (the first for New York City and the second for all other parts of the state), each of five members appointed by the governor with the approval of the Senate; in 1910 the regulation of telephone and telegraph companies throughout the state was vested in the second commission.

He was born on the 2nd of December 1817 at Dusseldorf, where his father held important posts in the public service both under the French and the Prussians; in 1831 he had been raised to the hereditary nobility.

His last public service was the bloodless suppression of an insurrection in Pannonia (13).

At the Ecole Militaire youths are trained nominally for the army, but many go there who intend to enter one of the professions or the public service.

The same interest led to the division of the services into two general parts, which became known ultimately as the missa, eatechumenorum and the miss y fidelium, - that is, the more public service of prayer, praise and preaching open to all, including the catechumens or candidates for Church membership, and the private service for the administration of the eucharist, open only to full members of the Church in good and regular standing.

He supported Polish students at Russian universities on condition that they then spent a number of years in the public service.

Ahmed gave himself up to pleasure during the remainder of his reign, which ended in 1617, and demoralization and corruption became as general throughout the public service as indiscipline in the ranks of the army.

The great public service corporations have, in particular, frequentiy succeeded in obtaining franchises of large pecuniary value without making any adequate payment therefor.

He also sends what is called his annual letter, enclosing the estimates, framed by the various departments, of the sums needed for the public service of the United States during the coming year.

Through this branch of the public service a complete chain of cold-storage accommodation between various points in Canada and markets in Europe, particularly in Great Britain, has been arranged.

He then entered the public service at Coblenz, and in 1845 was appointed burgomaster of Weyerbusch.

This was the object he had in view in his attempt to make Dutch, except in the Walloon districts, the official language for all public and judicial acts, and a knowledge of Dutch a necessary qualification for every person entering the public service.

French officers were selected for the training and disciplining of the army, the civil list was arranged with economy and order, and reforms were introduced into the public service and system of administration.

The distinction of his career there was rewarded with a free choice amongst the departments of the public service open to pupils of the school.

He did not re-enter the public service until the period of the Empire, when the arch-chancellor Cambaceres used his influence with Napoleon to procure for him the office of "maitre des requetes" to the council of state.

Deak and the majority agreed, however, that there should be certain institutions common to Hungary and the rest of the monarchy; these were - (1) foreign affairs, including the diplomatic and consular service; (2) the army and navy; (3) the control of the expenses required for these branches of the public service.

The new terminology, " Imperial and Royal " (Kaiserlich and Koniglich), has since then been applied to all those branches of the public service which belong to the common ministries; this was first the case with the diplomatic service; not till 1889 was it applied to the army, which for some time kept up the old style of Kaiserlich-Koniglich; in 1895 it was applied to the ministry of the imperial house, as office always held by the minister for foreign affairs.

He entered the public service at an early age and rose rapidly, becoming ambassador at Paris in 1834 and in London 1836, minister for foreign affairs 1837, again ambassador in London 1838, and in Paris 1841.

On his return he found that his father had been elected king of Denmark in the place of Christian II., and the young prince's first public service was the reduction of Copenhagen, which stood firm for the fugitive Christian II.

In 1903 the legislature authorized the municipal ownership of public service corporations, and in 1906 the city of Chicago took steps to acquire ownership of its street railways - a movement which seemed to have spent its force in 1907, when the municipal ownership candidates were defeated in the city's elections - and in 1902 the right of that city to regulate the price of gas was recognized by the United States Circuit Court of Appeals.

In 1854 selection by examination as a method of appointment to posts in the English public service was first substituted for the patronage system, which had caused grave dissatisfaction (see Macaulay's speech on the subject, The Times of the 25th of June 1853).

Jefferson began his public service as a justice of the peace and parish vestryman; he was chosen a member of the Virginia house of burgesses in 1769 and of every succeeding assembly and convention of the colony until he entered the Continental Congress in 1775.

When, on the 4th of March 1809, Jefferson retired from the presidency, he had been almost continuously in the public service for forty years.

The public service is recruited by nomination by the court of directors.

Of the other measures of reform promoted by Abd-ul-Mejid the more important were - the reorganization of the army (1843-1844), the institution of a council of public instruction (1846), the abolition of an odious and unfairly imposed capitation tax, the repression of slave trading, and various provisions for the better administration of the public service and for the advancement of commerce.

Further, the local administration was charged on the district concerned, and requisitions for the public service were frequently made on the provincial communities.

Near the end of his life he rendered great public service by distributing provisions in the city during a famine.

For holding an unlawful meeting and refusing to participate quietly in the public service they were fined, imprisoned and otherwise maltreated.

In the normal schools, where the pupils are trained to enter the public service as primary teachers, not only is the tuition free, but also books, board, lodging and everything needed in their school work.

A considerable part of its income is derived from a subsidy included in the annual budget, which makes it a charge upon the national treasury like any other public service.

On the outbreak of the revolution of 1821, of which he disapproved, although he was suspected of sympathizing with it, he was forced into exile; and though not long after he was allowed to return to Piedmont, all public service was denied him.

Through the influence of his father, Miguel de Zurita, physician to Charles V., he entered the public service as magistrate at Barbastro, and in 1 537 was appointed assistant-secretary of the Inquisition.

This was Washington's first important public service.

He was educated as a civil engineer, and after having highly distinguished himself at the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole des Ponts et Chaussees, obtained an appointment in the public service.

The supreme direction of this branch of the public service is entrusted to the minister of public instruction, and state aid is to be extended to the secondary, as well as to the normal, technical and professional schools.

The chairmen of the several town boards of supervisors, with the The office of railroad commissioner was created in 1874, became elective in 1881 and was replaced under an act of 1905 by a commission of three members, which received jurisdiction over other public service corporations in 2907.

The state tax on railways and other public service corporations is 1 The first class comprises cities having a population of 150,000 or more (Milwaukee); the second class those having a population between 40,000 and 150,000; the third class those having a population between Io,000 and 40,000; the fourth class those having a population less than 10,000.

In 1775 he retired from the public service.

Every calling and profession was made free to all French citizens, and in the public service the principle of an open career for talent was adopted.

They declared that they would yield in the matter of ceremonies so far as to employ unleavened bread in the eucharist, to use fonts in baptism, and to allow festival days, provided the people might pursue their ordinary avocations after public service.

A corporation commission of three members, elected for a term of six years, is intrusted with the necessary powers for a rigid control of public service corporations.

At last, just as the kingdom had become the personal property of the king, so the officialsdukes, counts, royal vicars, tribunes, centenariiwho had for the most part bought their unpaid offices by means of presents to the monarch, came to look upon the public service rather as a mine of official wealth than as an administrative organization for furthering the interests, material or moral, of the whole nation.

He completed his studies at Berlin, and in 1835 passed the examinations which admitted him to the public service.

The upper classes are polished and well educated, and many have occupied high positions in the public service in Turkey, Russia, Persia and Egypt.

On the 31st of January 1795 Hamilton resigned his position as secretary of the treasury and returned to the practice of law in New York, leaving it for public service only in 1798-1800, when he was the active head, under Washington (who insisted that Hamilton should be second only to himself), of the army organized for war against France.

He entered a railway office and had a successful business career, becoming general manager of the Detroit United Railways and the Public Service Railways of New Jersey.

The role of VCOs in the public service reform agenda is about more than delivery.

Such selfless devotion to public service can't fail to please in a society almost completely cured of the idea of organized labor.

Its public service role is its defense against accusations of market dominance.

The emphasis has sadly shifted from public service to selfish greed.

Labor have shown that they are congenitally incapable of proper public service reform.

Now another public service has seen the need to go multilingual.

It stated that " the numbers of people unable to receive public service broadcasting are by no means negligible " .

He was a veritable model of the Victorian self-made man, with a seemingly selfless devotion to public service.

I sat on a panel in the graveyard slot on Saturday morning, waffling on about public service broadcasting.

How did this man become so fabulously wealthy from a life supposedly devoted to public service?

This is part, too, of a much wider agenda of public service reform.

The word is also used in the Roman Catholic Church for the public service held on Sunday mornings before the mass (see Breviary; and Hours, Canonical).

The payment for public service which Pericles had introduced may have contributed to raise the general level of culture of the citizens, but it created a dangerous precedent and incurred the censure of notable Greek thinkers.

Having neglected his private affairs and incurred large expenditures during his missions to Europe, he experienced considerable pecuniary embarrassment in his later years, and was compelled to ask Congress to reimburse him for his expenses in the public service.

It may be said in general that while Luther insisted that public worship ought to be conducted in a language understood by the people, and that all ideas and actions which were superstitious and obscured the primary truth of the priesthood of all believers should be expurged, he wished to retain as much as possible of the public service of the medieval church.

This is about the same as the total of grants given to charities by the UK government (excluding public service contract funding).

The licenses stipulate public service requirements set out in existing analog licenses, together with new digital switchover obligations.

Now such public service is in danger of becoming unlawful in the topsy-turvy world of British politics.

Students will review the political and legislative underpinnings of equality practice and examine practical equality work in public service delivery.

There are so many, in fact, that many organizations make it a public service to distribute those novels over the Internet.

LibriVox is a wonderful public service provided by people who love literature.

Joe cartoon public service announcements are overdubbed with often highly inappropriate dialog.

The Burning Bed marked the first television movie to offer an 800 number for help and included a public service announcement by Fawcett.

Following that debacle, Washington went on to release a public service announcement against the use of hate speech, met with gay leaders and agreed to a psychological assessment and counseling.

While awaiting his trip to lock-up, he performed over 1,000 hours of community service as well as other public service announcements and speeches on the dangers of guns.

These are available in administration and bookkeeping, medical transcription and recordkeeping, public service fields and mechanics.

Other popular sources of grant money include public service organizations, such as a local Masonic Temple, Shriner's Temple, or Kiwanis Club.

One of the most eye-catching anti-smoking public service announcements features an Australian Shepherd smoking a cigarette.

What you will find with this public service site is that they have tested over 5000 different items.

The Eldercare Locator, a public service of the U.S. Administration on Aging, connects seniors and caregivers with information on senior services.

The Eldercare Locator is a public service of the U.S. Administration on Aging.

Banks' decision to unveil her never-before-seen real hair was part publicity stunt and part public service announcement.

Students who are homeschooled and involved in extracurricular activities, public service projects, or who a part of outside social groups will develop social skills during these interactions.

According to the Public Service Commission of Canada web site, the federal public service employs workers in over 1,600 points of service across the nation.

Rob Brezny has also turned his attention to public service by running for city council in Santa Cruz in 1988.

Harkins is additionally committed to charitable causes such as schools and social organizations, and has assisted in raising funds through benefits and fundraising premieres, charity gift sales, and public service announcements.

These include their public service announcements, their In-Kind Donation Program, sponsorship programs, and school fundraisers including the Real Easy Movie Money and Cupfuls of Money programs.

Bearing Fruit Communications is a Christian media firm that produces documentaries, movies, public service announcements and other information promoting Christianity.

This station - called 2RN - eventually evolved into RTE Radio One and is the longest running continually broadcasting public service station in Europe.

It was found possible to exchange speech when the conditions were exceptionally favourable; but in spite of the partial success of the experiment, a public service between the two capitals is not at present practicable.

House, arguing that their service was optional and not a means of livelihood; it was public service and should not be made a job.

In 1855 he was elected a member of the second chamber; and as the government refused to allow him leave of absence from his official duties he resigned his post in the public service.

In 1901 he retired from public service.

A condition of specialist dealers working to the public service is that they should not act in the dark.

An appointive board of public service consists of a president and four directors of divisions, public welfare, public safety, public utilities, and streets and sewers.

Freemen had always been to some extent employed in the public service.

Firstly he is the general representative of the government, whose duty it is to ensure execution of the government's decisions, the exercise of the law, and the regular working of all branches of the public service in the department.