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3102 examples of Civil in a sentence

Of course, if civil society organizations want to play that role, they have to grow into this responsibility.
Not all civil society organizations are good.
So, we must be aware that civil society has to shape up itself.
They have to have a much more participatory governance in many civil society organizations.
We also need much more competence of civil society leaders.
This is why we have set up the governance school and the Center for Civil Society here in Berlin, because we believe most of our educational and research institutions in Germany and continental Europe in general, do not focus enough, yet, on empowering civil society and training the leadership of civil society.
You could fight for your country, you could die for your country, you could serve in your country's civil service, but you didn't really have the information and the knowledge and the ability to help build the stronger society in the way that you do now.
But I'm very civil in my action, I assure you.
Add in the increased vulnerability of very large numbers of people in the developing world, caused by civil wars, ethnic conflicts, kleptocratic governments, disease ... you name it, you know it.
During the early '80s, I spent a lot of time in Central America, which was engulfed by civil wars that straddled the ideological divide of the Cold War.
At the same time, a civil war was taking place in El Salvador, and again, the civilian population was caught up in the conflict.
In the '90s, after the breakup of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia fractured along ethnic fault lines, and civil war broke out between Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia.
In southern Sudan, another civil war saw similar use of starvation as a means of genocide.
The central commercial district of Kabul, Afghanistan at the end of the civil war, shortly before the city fell to the Taliban.
I'd witnessed immense suffering in the Islamic world from political oppression, civil war, foreign invasions, poverty, famine.
Liberia had been torn apart by civil strife for decades.
I am Mr Micheal Bangura, the son of late Mr Thaimu Bangura who was the Minister of Finance in Sierra Leone but was killed during the civil war.
Martin Luther King did not say, "I have a nightmare," when he inspired the civil rights movements.
CA: But is it mainly politicians who are going to have to get their act together, or is it going to be more just civil society and companies?
It has to be civil society.
Congo got into civil war, and they leveled off here.
For those of us from outside of Africa, we're familiar with parts of this story: a massive spike in inequality, the product of a decline in good jobs for good wages that were once considered the hallmark of an advanced society; the capture of our political parties by elites accompanied by the hollowing out of civil society that once provided a voice to ordinary people; that sinking feeling that no matter what you do, external factors related to the global economy can disrupt our lives for the worse.
I am an American civil rights activist who has labored with communities of color since September 11, fighting unjust policies by the state and acts of hate in the street.
In fact the military role would be to supply aid to the civil authorities when requested to do so.
The civil authorities would retain primacy.
The underlying theme of the series is that a silent majority of colonists enjoyed British rule; that the founding fathers were manipulative schemers whose only goal was to draw Britain into a violent civil war; that the American supporters of the revolution and the militia were racist, violent louts, duped into the struggle.
I don't have time for this, but I cannot let this go knowing I haven't done my civil duty by letting people (those who have an IQ of 85 and above) know that this is no action/thriller, It is honest to goodness funny.
He just got shot, real quick-like and civil, and that was all I got from this film that they didn't kill him off in an extremely grotesque and morbid way.
Bender transports the plot from medieval Italy to Mississippi during the time of the American civil war.
The film also makes thinly veiled accusations that the black civil rights movement was communist-inspired, another pack of lies.
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