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    civil


    1. and technologies suitable for civil projects


    2. He’s late thirties and a civil servant working for the Inland Revenue


    3. ‘The news that Joanna Sadler was having an affair with a local civil servant has hit Dan Sadler hard


    4. ’ I replied, not at all certain where this is going and anxious, in the light of the events of the last few days, to keep things civil


    5. I speculated on the civil wars and religious factionalism and its effects on young minds


    6. What would I have done in this or that situation? How would I react if I found myself facing similar choices? Would I have been as bold as Menachem and entered into a passionate affair with an English woman, a civil servant, just as he had done? Would I have dared to chase a French politician through the streets of Paris to ask that one final question, a question that resulted in Aban spending three days in a French gaol?


    7. African descent, were killed when an Alabama church was bombed in retaliation of the Civil Rights Movement


    8. ’ He went on, barely succeeding in sounding civil he changes the subject so quickly


    9. Smiling at Berndt and getting a civil if chilly nod from him in return, I turn to meet Joris


    10. ‘About the time of the Civil Strife?’

    11. He came from a remote region of a far off nation that was locked into a vicious cycle of civil war and warlordism


    12. 'This will last a day or two, but if we stifle it, it could explode into a huge civil


    13. Dave’s always been civil, unlike some editors I've heard of


    14. The announcement from George at the Council meeting, after his presumptuous offer of assistance as 'adviser' for dubious civil improvements, and that he would then 'push forward' to become a hotelier, as a model for the rest of them, was the last straw


    15. Mandy Hill, in an exertion of will to remain civil, said, “I have just come from an inspection of the Livingson Bungalow Lodges,” she carefully phrased, “and was graciously received, properly entertained, and handsomely impressed with Livingson's sophistication and good taste


    16. She gave the young man a moment to relinquish the sleeve still tight in his fingers then stated clearly and loud enough for his mates and anyone one else out at that time to hear, “You will keep a civil tongue in your foul little mouth, or there's more where that came from! Don't even begin to tell any one else about 'manners!' I don't know from whose foolish talk you picked up that misapplied epithet, but you will do well to remember this: you and your little friends are not even civilized humans yet and until you learn to treat others as you would be treated, I pity you the knocks and bruises in store for you, and not just at the hands of a 'woman' next time;” she glared at them one at a time, “Now get on back to your homes and don't even think of repeating such a foolish stunt!” she added


    17. “A search of the local area, by the Guardians and other civil


    18. To each other they were always very civil and never got into shouting matches the neighborhood could overhear


    19. It was good of Ava to be civil enough to her to sell her the house


    20. Alan didn’t think so because they had been quite friendly and civil, not at all anti-social

    21. But several years later, while we were in Belgium, we were able to have a second wedding at the Catholic Church with this other great couple who were kind of in the same situation as us, and who had been married in a civil ceremony


    22. practically useless as she cannot get clearance to handle court documents without her civil


    23. The masters, upon these occasions, are just as clamorous upon the other side, and never cease to call aloud for the assistance of the civil magistrate, and the rigorous execution of those laws which have been enacted with so much severity against the combination of servants, labourers, and journeymen


    24. The workmen, accordingly, very seldom derive any advantage from the violence of those tumultuous combinations, which, partly from the interposition of the civil magistrate, partly from the superior steadiness of the masters, partly from the necessity which the greater part of the workmen are under of submitting for the sake of present subsistence, generally end in nothing but the punishment or ruin of the ringleaders


    25. As a man of a civil profession seems awkward in a camp or a garrison, and is even in some danger of being despised there, so does an idle man among men of business


    26. The first of these events was the civil war, which, by discouraging tillage and interrupting commerce, must have raised the price of corn much above what the course of the seasons would otherwise have occasioned


    27. These, however, though the highest, are by no means the only high prices which seem to have been occasioned by the civil wars


    28. In the course of the present century, too, there has been no great public calamity, such as a civil war, which could either discourage tillage, or interrupt the interior commerce of the country


    29. In a fertile soil and happy climate, the great abundance and cheapness of land, a circumstance common to all new colonies, is, it seems, so great an advantage, as to compensate many defects in civil government


    30. the Civil War, when Stalin helped then

    31. during the Civil War, they received the


    32. during the Civil War, they received help from the


    33. Second World War and in the first part of the Civil


    34. “Then he owes you a kinsman’s duty to be civil


    35. during the Civil War


    36. In each of those periods, however, there was not only much private and public profusion, many expensive and unnecessary wars, great perversion of the annual produce from maintaining productive to maintain unproductive hands; but sometimes, in the confusion of civil discord, such absolute waste and destruction of stock, as might be supposed, not only to retard, as it certainly did, the natural accumulation of riches, but to have left the country, at the end of the period, poorer than at the beginning


    37. So the Civil War began


    38. Only then the Civil War


    39. Entails, however, are still respected, through the greater part of Europe ; In those countries, particularly, in which noble birth is a necessary qualification for the enjoyment either of civil or military honours


    40. To have enforced payment of a small debt within the lands of a great proprietor, where all the inhabitants were armed, and accustomed to stand by one another, would have cost the king, had he attempted it by his own authority, almost the same effort as to extinguish a civil war

    41. Not only the highest jurisdictions, both civil and criminal, but the power of levying troops, of coining money, and even that of making bye-laws for the government of their own people, were all rights possessed allodially by the great proprietors of land, several centuries before even the name of the feudal law was known in Europe


    42. The civil wars of Flanders, and the Spanish government which succeeded them, chased away the great commerce of Antwerp,


    43. Because Tragus’s reputation had improved, townsfolk even acknowledged her with civil nods


    44. Civil war was always tragic and he regarded his Nord comrades-in-arms every bit as much his countrymen, his neighbors, as he did the other Cyrodiil-born Imperials


    45. What caused you to leave Cyrodiil and wind up in this predicament? Especially with a civil war going on?”


    46. civil wars…the lot of it


    47. Industry is there neither free nor secure; and the civil and ecclesiastical governments of both Spain and Portugal are such as would alone be sufficient to perpetuate their present state of poverty, even though their regulations of commerce were as wise as the greatest part of them are absurd and foolish


    48. The Eng1ish colonists have never yet contributed any thing towards the defence of the mother country, or towards the support of its civil government


    49. They themselves, on the contrary, have hitherto been defended almost entirely at the expense of the mother country ; but the expense of fleets and armies is out of all proportion greater than the necessary expense of civil government


    50. The expense of their own civil government has always been very moderate














































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    Synonyms for "civil"

    civil polite civic civilized civilised courteous well-behaved respectful refined mannerly complaisant public civilian municipal political domestic local internal non-military secular

    "civil" definitions

    applying to ordinary citizens as contrasted with the military


    not rude; marked by satisfactory (or especially minimal) adherence to social usages and sufficient but not noteworthy consideration for others


    of or occurring within the state or between or among citizens of the state


    of or relating to or befitting citizens as individuals


    (of divisions of time) legally recognized in ordinary affairs of life


    of or in a condition of social order