enlightened

• “Murano used the term enlightened governance five times in the three-paragraph message but did not use the term that the students and faculty members voicing concern have been using -- shared governance.”

  Local News | The Bryan College Station Eagle

• “The next level of action is usually taken under the auspices of what I call "enlightened risk management," where a company sees the inter-dependencies between their raw material supply or their market and the world it lives in and then takes action, often in collaboration with an NGO, to protect it.”

  The Huffington Post: RP Siegel: Are Beverage Companies Doing As Much As They Can for the Planet?

• “And there even existed what we called enlightened despots.”

  RALLY IN SANTIAGO

• “The preacher may perhaps interest what he terms enlightened audiences, but when required to analyze truth and present it in a plain way to plain people he cannot do it.”

  The religious instruction of the Negroes in the United States,

• “It's that approach to life which we call enlightened, scientific.”

  The Guardian World News

• “The use of the term enlightened is telling, since the strongest argument for the acceptance of pornography — and the hard-core variety in particular — is precisely that it represents a form of sexual progress, a more civilized approach to the problem of the male libido than either the toleration of mass prostitution or the attempt, from the Victorian era onward, to simultaneously legislate prostitution away and hold married couples to an unreasonably high standard of fidelity.”

  Is Pornography Adultery?

• “It is called enlightened self-interest, and it is the exact same business plan pursued by the original architects for America's best and most prosperous cities.”

  The Huffington Post: John Hope Bryant: Silver Rights and Generation Entrepreneurship: What a President With Vision Can Do

• “I will give her credit for determining criteria for choosing the best, not an easy task, but I don't feel enlightened from the reading of the experience.”

  Book Review: Fortune Cookie Chronicles

• “The best reason of all is what is sometimes called enlightened self-interest, a principle that may have been first identified by Alexis de Tocqueville, the French political thinker and historian who visited America in 1831.”

  Simon & Schuster: Manifesting Michelangelo

• “We were told they would never destroy themselves in the name of enlightened self interest, those banks.”

  The Huffington Post: David Serchuk: Enough With the Teacher Bashing

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