(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.
Noncombatant
Definition:
(n.) Any person connected with an army, or within the lines of an army, who does not make it his business to fight, as any one of the medical officers and their assistants, chaplains, and others; also, any of the citizens of a place occupied by an army; also, any one holding a similar position with respect to the navy.
Example Sentences:
(1) And the UN itself points out that "the analysis was not able to differentiate clearly between combatants and noncombatants".
(2) On 27 December, Abdulrahman cited 148 violent deaths in Syria for that day: 49 rebels, 42 soldiers, three defectors, and the remaining 54 likely to be a mix of noncombatant civilians and unidentified rebels: "It isn't easy to count rebels because nobody on the ground says 'this is a rebel'.
(3) The four groups were (a) PTSD sufferers, (b) Vietnam combat veterans without PTSD, (c) Vietnam noncombat veterans, and (d) Vietnam era veterans.
(4) Yet he has reintroduced 3,000 US troops, ostensibly for noncombat advisory roles, returned US fighter pilots and drones to Iraqi skies, and provided scores of Hellfire missiles.
(5) Despite the administration’s daily air strikes and its deployment of 3,000 “noncombat” military forces back to Iraq, Susan Rice, Obama’s national security adviser, said on 20 May that Obama has “ ended two wars responsibly ” – while both wars continue .
(6) Compared to the noncombatants and light combat veterans, these men were at greater risk of emotional and behavioral problems in the postwar years.
(7) The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a major source of information on the plight of noncombatants, said 28 civilians had been killed.
(8) The Centcom statement said: “A team designated by the operational task force commander has concluded that civilian noncombatants likely were killed in the midst of a firefight during a 29 January raid in Yemen, and that casualties may include children.
(9) The construct validity of the PTSD subscale was supported by the finding of a higher mean score in combat than noncombat veterans.
(10) To propose that we "intervene" in the war in Syria, for example, once again shunts aside the reality of dropping bombs and inevitably killing lots of noncombatants.
(11) Before heading out they strap on white armbands and attach a white flag to their cars to signal that they are noncombatants.
(12) The increases in autonomic activity of PTSD subjects was more pronounced and long lasting in response to the combat film than to the noncombat film, but type of film had no systematic effect on control subjects' responses.
(13) Direct targeting of noncombatants is a war crime; indeed, it is the prototypical one.
(14) Moreover, noncombat effects are manifested differentially: Combat veterans with higher noncombat trauma evidence greater social withdrawal, whereas noncombat veterans who report higher noncombat trauma are characterized by higher anxiety.
(15) Homeless combat veterans who are not White were more likely to have psychiatric, alcohol, and medical problems than homeless noncombat Vietnam veterans who are not White.
(16) Means employed against Isis thus far have included fighter jets, bombers, armed drones and carrier-launched warplanes in addition to the ostensibly noncombat ground forces.
(17) The government has an obligation under international law to distinguish combatants from noncombatants – and, as far as reasonably possible, to avoid causing noncombatants harm.
(18) Accounts from within Manbij claim that Isis has placed snipers within the city for civilians attempting escape, boobytrapped homes with explosives and used noncombatants as human shields – the latter two claims echoing those also made by the US military.
(19) Sometimes the definition emphasized political motivation or the targeting of noncombatants, and sometimes it barely distinguished terrorism from “war, coercive diplomacy, and bar-room brawls”.
(20) It surely need not be explained that the government's obligation is to distinguish combatants from noncombatants while they are still alive , not after they have been killed.