What's the difference between civic and civilian?

Civic


Definition:

  • (a.) Relating to, or derived from, a city or citizen; relating to man as a member of society, or to civil affairs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We used to have a really good night in here on Bonfire night.” Communities across the UK are facing the same unwillingness by civic bodies to stage Bonfire night celebrations.
  • (2) The Tory civic voluntarism of Cameron's speech cannot deal with structural problems on this scale.
  • (3) Civic Platform, led for most of its existence by Donald Tusk before he became president of the European Council, included many of the liberal architects of the post-1989 republic and their supporters – those who had negotiated the transition, those who determined its free-market economic model, those who established a conciliatory tone and pro-European orientation in foreign policy, those who negotiated the constitutional settlement reached in 1997.
  • (4) There was none of the prejudice found in much of the British press, just acceptance that it was part of the town’s civic duty to share in helping with a European-wide problem.
  • (5) The public servants’ ethos, their attachment to the civic realm, has been systematically trashed as mere unionised self-interest.
  • (6) On current projections, Civic Platformwould secure 206 seats in the 460-member lower chamber, or Sejm.
  • (7) Then, in English, a simple statement that has come to define a Japanese summer of public discontent, the likes of which it has not seen in a generation: “This is what democracy looks like!” Amid the trade union and civic group banners were colourful, bilingual placards held aloft by a new generation of activists who have assumed the mantle of mass protest as Japan braces for the biggest shift in its defence posture for 70 years.
  • (8) Moreover, three civic services were driven by two or more of these public health themes.
  • (9) Saudi Arabia doesn’t distinguish between civic and military targets, and it doesn’t differentiate between child or woman or older man.
  • (10) After graduation, whether a practicing physician, teacher, author, researcher, or simply a postprandial speaker at a civic club meeting, he or she will be able to influence the thinking and behavior of others in a much more efficient and interesting manner.
  • (11) Sikorski, whose Civic Platform party is a member of the EPP, told the Andrew Marr Show on BBC1: "If the Tories were part of the EPP he could have made that argument [against Juncker] at the Dublin summit when the EPP chose its candidate.
  • (12) As a result of a remarkable call issued by a number of large national civic coalitions, which has spread like wildfire across the Palestinian body politic scattered to the four winds, it is now signed by more than 150 popular and grassroots organisations in Palestine and in exile.
  • (13) Woking also built a series of combined heat and power (CHP) stations - one of which powers council buildings, some sheltered housing and the bulk of the town centre, including the civic offices, a leisure complex, a hotel, bingo hall and exhibition centre.
  • (14) As Hunter recorded, it was acquired by a civic dignitary, Mr Alderman Pugh, "who very politely allowed me to examine its structure, and to take away the bones".
  • (15) It affects more than our universities, as only one of the sites of free speech in our public sphere, but not the only one – and certainly not more precious than our boroughs, schools, or other national civic institutions as protected democratic space.
  • (16) That has led the yes and no referendum campaigns and civic rights groups to fear that between 700,000 and 1 million Scots may not participate in the decision to decide the country's future – a group known as the missing million.
  • (17) Civic Platform considers Poland part of a western team facing global challenges together.
  • (18) Over coming weeks and months, ministers from many major UK departments will be visiting Scotland with increasing frequency for private meetings with business, civic and cultural leaders.
  • (19) Electrocardiographic (ECG) changes during maximal bicycle exercise and risk factors for coronary heart disease (CHD) were studied in 510 male civic employees who were followed for 3 years.
  • (20) Vaclav Klaus A former state economist, then Civic Forum supporter, he was made finance minister in 1989.

Civilian


Definition:

  • (n.) One skilled in the civil law.
  • (n.) A student of the civil law at a university or college.
  • (n.) One whose pursuits are those of civil life, not military or clerical.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Of those, 39 were civilians, 34 armed opposition fighters and 35 members of the state security forces, said the UK-based group.
  • (2) The Nigerian government has been heavily criticised for failing to protect civilians in an increasingly violent conflict that left about 10,000 dead last year.
  • (3) At least 10,000 civilians took refuge in UN compounds in the capital, said one UN official who asked not to be named.
  • (4) He regarded civilians who "harboured terrorists" as legitimate targets.
  • (5) Another 300-350 civilians had been killed and 600-650 injured from late January to mid-April.
  • (6) He had been moved from a civilian prison to the country's intelligence HQ, leading Mansfield to question whether there was a disagreement among Syrian authorities about the fate of Khan.
  • (7) Campbell's assessment came the day after a United Nations report found that ground battles between Afghan forces and the Taliban insurgents had overtaken insurgent bombs as a leading cause of civilian deaths and injuries .
  • (8) The Bosnian leadership in Sarajevo warned the UN on 8 July that “genocide against the civilian population of Srebrenica may occur” but did not call for evacuation.
  • (9) As well as enjoying access to a number of RAF bases, the agency has been flying in and out of civilian airports across the country.
  • (10) There was already simmering anger over the deaths of civilians in US drone attacks aimed at alleged terrorists inside Pakistan and over an incident in February in which a CIA contractor, Raymond Davis, shot dead two men on the street in Lahore he said were trying to rob him.
  • (11) The United Nations said that 3,099 Afghan civilians were killed in the first six months of this year alone.
  • (12) Congolese civilians are being beaten, threatened and arrested for wearing the T-shirts of opposition candidates, raising the prospect of bloodshed during this month's elections, the UN has warned.
  • (13) More than 50,000 civilians have joined a growing exodus from east Aleppo, a human rights monitor has said, as the UN security council prepares to hold emergency talks on fighting in the Syrian city.
  • (14) An intelligence officer told Associated Press that they were aware of the movement, but that the military is acting with care as many civilians are still trapped in the town and Boko Haram is laying land mines around it.
  • (15) Britain is being urged to halt the supply of weapons to its ally Saudi Arabia in the light of evidence that civilians are being killed in Saudi-led attacks on rebel forces in Yemen .
  • (16) It claims that reports of civilians being killed by security forces are fabrications cooked up by activists and the international media, while the official news agency talks constantly about "armed criminal groups" trying to destabilise the country.
  • (17) The prevalence of a history of post-traumatic stress disorder was 1 percent in the total population, about 3.5 percent in civilians exposed to physical attack and in Vietnam veterans who were not wounded, and 20 percent in veterans wounded in Vietnam.
  • (18) Nato’s Jens Stoltenberg, the transatlantic alliance’s top civilian, attempted to signal such continuity after the Brexit vote.
  • (19) Buhari has described himself as a “converted democrat” who repeatedly contested and lost elections after civilian rule was restored 16 years ago.
  • (20) Drones are not only provocative and illegal in international law but have also led to the killing of many innocent civilians in other countries that has had a serious impact on how the US is perceived in the region.