Some serve society--and taxpayers--well, while others are so wrongheaded and costly that they are actually harmful.
It would serve society far better for governments, especially those above the local level, to desist.
Doctors have a moral obligation not only to serve their patients, but also to serve society and the greater good.
After all, it is these same businesses that will win out in the long run as they serve society best.
Both signed into law this spring legislation creating a new class of corporations accountable to serve society as well as shareholders.
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"Selling petrol is one way in which we express and serve society, but it is by a long distance not the only one, " he said.
There are many other ways in which they can serve society.
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Should society serve corporations or should corporations serve society?
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But if a better balance can be struck between, on the one hand, financial losses imposed on shareholders and, on the other, criminal penalties imposed on individual malefactors, the corporate-liability regime would serve society more effectively.
"The open society could serve as a unifying principle for our global society, " argued Soros in his Sept. 21 presentation at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center.
The ultimate aim of the project is to ensure that community media serve all parts of society by promoting dialogue on development issues, such as good governance, social justice and human rights, gender parity, implementation of the new constitution and national cohesion.
The society plans to serve food, but not turn it into a gastro-pub, and is considering having a shop attached to the pub.
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In the book, the authors set out to reinvent capitalism as a force for good with a new blueprint that focuses on the creation of value that can serve to create prosperity for society as a whole.
But he says in the end it would better serve the common good by creating a society based on what the individual wants.
The corporation sole form can also serve the needs of a very small church or religious society, just as well as a large diocese.
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Mr Santorum prefers government to serve as an instrument in the urgent task of remoralising a society that has lost its spiritual moorings.
Given the current jihadist state of Palestinian society as a whole, such an agreement would simply serve to empower jihadists still more.
Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.
The upcoming elections serve the purpose of making Chavez look like he is presiding over a free society but in reality provide no real chance for change.
Along with the hypocrisy of power, Lou dramatizes a society of surveillance and internal espionage, in which deceit and pretense serve the spirit of freedom, fear and despair efface identity and warp morality, and the last refuge of conscience, in the face of oppressive order, is the commemoration of the victims.
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