(a.) Pertaining to a city or state, or to a citizen in his relations to his fellow citizens or to the state; within the city or state.
(a.) Subject to government; reduced to order; civilized; not barbarous; -- said of the community.
(a.) Performing the duties of a citizen; obedient to government; -- said of an individual.
(a.) Having the manners of one dwelling in a city, as opposed to those of savages or rustics; polite; courteous; complaisant; affable.
(a.) Pertaining to civic life and affairs, in distinction from military, ecclesiastical, or official state.
(a.) Relating to rights and remedies sought by action or suit distinct from criminal proceedings.
Example Sentences:
(1) The new Somali government has enthusiastically embraced the new deal and created a taskforce, bringing together the government, lead donors (the US, UK, EU, Norway and Denmark), the World Bank and civil society.
(2) To a supporter at the last election like me – someone who spoke alongside Nick Clegg at the curtain-raiser event for the party conference during the height of Labour's onslaught on civil liberties, and was assured privately by two leaders that the party was onside about civil liberties – this breach of trust and denial of principle is astonishing.
(3) The cyclical nature of pyromania has parallels in cycles of reform in standards of civil commitment (Livermore, Malmquist & Meehl, 1958; Dershowitz, 1974), in the use of physical therapies and medications (Tourney, 1967; Mora, 1974), in treatment of the chronically mentally ill (Deutsch, 1949; Morrissey & Goldman, 1984), and in institutional practices (Treffert, 1967; Morrissey, Goldman & Klerman (1980).
(4) The law would let people find out if partners had a history of domestic violence but is likely to face objections from civil liberties groups.
(5) The Pakistan government, led as usual by a general, was anxious to project the army's role as bringers of order to a country that was sliding quickly towards civil war.
(6) Acts like this have no place in our country and in a civilized society,” Lynch said in Washington.
(7) Gassmann, whose late father, Vittorio , was a critically acclaimed star of Italian cinema in its heyday in the 1960s, tweeted over the weekend with the hashtag #Romasonoio (I am Rome), calling on the city’s residents to be an example of civility and clean up their own little corners of Rome with pride.
(8) However, civil society groups have raised concerns about the ethics of providing ‘climate loans’ which increase the country’s debt burden.
(9) The authors are also upfront about what has not gone so well: "We were too slow to mobilise … we did not identify clear leadership or adequate resources for the actions … it is vital to accelerate the programme of civil service reform."
(10) Anna Mazzola, a civil liberties lawyer who advises the National Union of Journalists and whom I consulted, told me that in general if police can view anyone's images, they can only do so in "very limited circumstances".
(11) Terry Waite Chair, Benedict Birnberg Deputy chair, Antonio Ferrara CEO The Prisons Video Trust • If I want to build a bridge, I call in a firm of civil engineers who specialise in bridge-building.
(12) If wide notice is taken of a current spat over what we can read about Shakespeare’s sexuality into the sonnets in the correspondence columns of the Times Literary Supplement, Sonnet 20 may be a future favourite at civil unions.
(13) The Dacre review panel, which included Sir Joseph Pilling, a retired senior civil servant, and the historian Prof Sir David Cannadine, said Britain now had one of the "less liberal" regimes in Europe for access to confidential government papers and that reform was needed to restore some trust between politicians and people.
(14) But with a civil war raging and no one to protect them, most migrants are at risk of kidnap, extortion and forced labour.
(15) The army has said it will deploy troops on the streets on that day, while the president says he may introduce a state of emergency if, as expected, the protests spark widespread civil unrest.
(16) I am one of those retired civil servants who has not received my pension.
(17) Senior civil servant Simon Case joined the UK’s EU embassy in March to lead work on the new partnership with the bloc, but EU diplomats are unsure how he fits into the picture.
(18) On 26 April 1937 this market town was obliterated in three hours of bombing by Nazi planes, allies of Generalísimo Francisco Franco’s fascists in the Spanish civil war.
(19) The menace we’re facing – and I say we, because no one is spared – is embodied by the hooded men who are ravaging the cradle of civilization.
(20) A Catholic boys’ school has reversed its permission to allow civil rights drama Freeheld, starring Julianne Moore and Ellen Page as a lesbian couple, to shoot on location in New York State.
Relegate
Definition:
(v. t.) To remove, usually to an inferior position; to consign; to transfer; specifically, to send into exile; to banish.
Example Sentences:
(1) And now here we all were, gathered together at Maine Road, on the brink of relegation.
(2) Both sides sought a decisive goal in a frenetic finish but ultimately the league leaders and the side fighting relegation shared the points and Mourinho wound up making dark allusions to the influence of officials .
(3) But Vokes’s second-half penalty and Gray’s 61st-minute strike won it for Burnley and left Fulham two points away from the relegation zone.
(4) His first season back in Spain featured six goals in 21 games, including one of the goals in a 2-2 draw against Barcelona that saved his team from relegation, whereas he has been more prolific in his second campaign, scoring 19 times from 38 games, including another goal at the Camp Nou.
(5) Newcastle United are “devastated” by their relegation from the Premier League, according to the club’s managing director Lee Charnley.
(6) For Argyle the result confirmed their relegation to League One, with the rival fans left to ponder wildly differing prospects next season.
(7) As a generalization, younger, more rehabilitatable diabetics have been offered a kidney transplant, while older, often sicker diabetics have been relegated to CAPD, leaving most diabetics in the subset managed by maintenance hemodialysis.
(8) Bundesliga in 1997 when his team Rot-Weiss Essen was relegated," writes Matthias Gläfke.
(9) Hull City clambered out of the relegation zone and consigned Paul Lambert to a half-century of Premier League defeats as Aston Villa manager in the process.
(10) That decision has caused anger among Leeds’ fans after Redfearn saved Leeds from relegation from the Championship after being given the job in the wake of the ill-fated reigns of the unknown David Hockaday and the little known Darko Milanic.
(11) High tension and high stakes coursed through this meeting of top four chasers versus relegation facers and it was to QPR’s credit that they attacked their predicament – and Arsenal – head on.
(12) They were relegated last month at the end of the Norwegian season and he has already overseen the departure of one manager.
(13) Nevertheless an inconsistent League run of form over the second half of the season which has left Watford in 12th place, some 10 points clear of the relegation battle, created speculation that Flores’s position was under threat .
(14) Arsenal went top with a 2-0 win at Aston Villa , Liverpool drew 2-2 against West Bromwich Albion at Anfield while Newcastle’s victory lifted them out of the relegation zone and pressed the champions, Chelsea, to within a point of it, before their visit to Leicester City on Monday night.
(15) Lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)], a lipoprotein variant, was relegated for almost 25 years to the study of a few specialists.
(16) Having avoided relegation again in 2002-03, the following season – with a side now featuring Kevin Davies and Emerson Thome – Bolton reach the League Cup final , Allardyce’s first final as a player or manager.
(17) Not relegate them to background characters in the service of a white cis-male fictional protagonist.” Both groups have drawn their conclusions from the film’s trailer.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ever since Margaret Thatcher’s 1979 election victory, ‘Britain’s elites have relegated concerns about inequality below the existential question of how to restore our capitalist economy to economic health’.
(19) While gothic grandeur fills the windows, the walls are plastered with pop memorabilia and personal paraphernalia: tributes, affectionate caricatures; a Who poster signed by Roger Daltrey; a Queens Park Rangers banner and, relegated to the top of a bookcase, a ministerial red box from the Home Office.
(20) Of the three relegated clubs, Norwich have adjusted best to the Championship and, Alex Neil having replaced Neil Adams as manager in January, are challenging for a bounce-back promotion.