civil

[ˈsɪvl]

Definition:
1. Applying to ordinary citizens.
2. Connected with the people who live in a country.

Use 'civil' in a sentence:

1. He's a local government administrator, that is to say a civil servant.
2. Civil rights officials say there may be hundreds of other cases of racial violence.
3. Civil war could come if the country breaks up.
4. Civil disobedience, violent or non-violent, is intentional law breaking.
5. It is believed to be the world's biggest civil engineering project.
6. She gets £ 130,000 from the Civil List.
7. He is currently writing a dissertation on the Somali civil war.
8. Members of the English Civil War Society will re-enact the battle.
9. That ruling had drawn sharp criticism from civil rights groups.
10. The prospect of civil war is very real.
11. The country is teetering on the brink of civil war.
12. These demands are helping to stoke fears of civil war.
13. The civil war claimed the life of a U.N. interpreter yesterday.
14. He doubted their claim to have forsaken military solutions to the civil war.
15. The issue is one of constitutional and civil rights.
16. Now she's made a splash in the television show "Civil Wars."
17. There is no certainty that the president's removal would end the civil war.
18. It was against this backdrop of racial tension that the civil war began.
19. The civil war lingered on well into the 1930s.
20. The years of civil war have dehumanized all of us.
21. civil The judge ordered that the prisoner should lose his civil rights.
22. The civil war has raged almost continuously since 1976.
23. We cannot take sides in a civil war.
24. This laid the way for trial by jury, which means people are tried by their peers and guaranteed the civil rights of the individual.
25. They came to power in 1975 after a bloody civil war.
26. The country is haunted by the spectre of civil war.
27. The conflict degenerating into civil war is everybody's nightmare scenario.
28. His work as a civil servant was a cover for his activities as a spy.
29. The peace agreement has at least temporarily halted the civil war.
30. A system like ours lacks adequate safeguards for civil liberties.
31. They said that compulsory identity cards would infringe civil liberties.
32. The country has been ravaged by civil war.
33. The opposition threatened a campaign of civil disobedience.
34. The government has decided to increase salaries for all civil servants.
35. He used his friends to help him get into the civil service by the back door.
36. This form of civil disobedience isn't a particularly new phenomenon.
37. The director puts a Hollywood gloss on the civil war.
38. The threat of renewed civil war looms ahead.
39. The real danger is civil unrest in the east of the country.
40. I'll thank you to keep a civil tongue in your head.
41. The Patriotic Front took power after a three-month civil war.
42. The country was sliding into a state of virtual civil war.
43. Ethnic tensions among the republics could lead to civil war.
44. The Channel Tunnel project is the biggest civil engineering project in Europe.
45. The love story unfolds against a background of civil war.
46. There are still few women in the upper reaches of the civil service.
47. Her family was given safe conduct to Britain when civil war broke out.