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.