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Example sentences for: civil

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A piece chronicles the horrific implosion of Sierra Leone, where an "incoherent," horrible guerrilla movement is sweeping through the countryside, destroying what little remains of civil society.
What she did get was a chance to rally and embolden the men and women inside the New Deal who shared her belief that its benefits ought to extend to everyone, including "negroes," and to give some lasting symbolic weight to the civil rights movement.
Turn-of-the-century courts did not display a libertarian attitude toward civil rights; they displayed a libertarian attitude toward economic rights, tending to throw out legislation aimed at regulating industry and protecting workers on the grounds that people had a constitutional right to enter into contracts and to use their own property as they saw fit.
In those days there were no cartoon tampons, but if there were, they would have been depicted as the grim-faced civil servants we know them to truly be.
The family houses of the merchants and civil servants where built high on this rise — named Government Hill — to take advantage of the cooling breeze.