(n.) The act of civilizing, or the state of being civilized; national culture; refinement.
(n.) Rendering a criminal process civil.
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.
Maya
Definition:
(n.) The name for the doctrine of the unreality of matter, called, in English, idealism; hence, nothingness; vanity; illusion.
Example Sentences:
(1) No child in the Maya village school admitted to or was known by the nurse or teachers to have asthma, whereas 2 of 39 children in the control group were known to be affected.
(2) His defence fell apart at a set piece, conceding a late goal when, courtesy of Jos Hooiveld's flick, Maya Yoshida headed James Ward-Prowse's free-kick beyond the impressive Vito Mannone.
(3) The predominantly Maya town of Santiago Atitlan is in the Guatemalan highlands in the Department of Solola.
(4) A botched job, on its own, narrow terms, AQA's list – launched in the week in which British readers and the national press has been mourning the death of Maya Angelou – is even more ludicrous and ill-conceived when placed in a wider context.
(5) Maya Wang, of Human Rights Watch, said that if Tohti had been tried and sentenced in secret it was "very, very disturbing".
(6) He'll certainly be hoping that Diaries Volume One: Prelude to Power 1994-1997 does better than his second novel, Maya.
(7) In addition, the Asian-specific deletion between the cytochrome c oxidase subunit II (COII) and tRNA(Lys) genes was also prevalent in both the Pima and the Maya.
(8) This idea is quite contrary to the traditional view that the ancient Maya were a contemplative people, who did not indulge in ritual ecstasy.
(9) Maya Yoshida and the excellent Victor Wanyama had threatened earlier and the second goal followed more quicksilver work by Mané, who escaped on the byeline before being body checked by Rochdi Achenteh.
(10) In Belize, the Maya Indians commonly feed their infants from birth until 12-18 months exclusively on breast milk.
(11) Of the album, packed with references to Sri Lankan terrorists, Diplo said: "Maya left her open for attacks.
(12) This decrease is concomitant with an increase of disintegrating tubules in lubricant- and Ural-WAF exposures, and with an increase of regenerating tubules in the Maya-WAF exposure.
(13) Solubility and swelling studies suggested the presence of more homogenous forces maintaining the granular matrix on the starch from Maya Normal in relation to the other maize cultivars.
(14) This will reach a climax on the 21st when Honduran President Porfirio Lobo will join descendants of the Maya at a ceremony to mark the end of the current cycle, before dawn meditation on the start of a new era.
(15) Iran has hanged more than a hundred so-called drug offenders this year, and the UN has responded by praising the efficiency of the Iranian drug police and lining them up a generous five-year funding deal,” said Maya Foa , strategic director of Reprieve’s death penalty team.
(16) Maya Angelou is a big inspiration – she is a speaker who always makes me feel something.
(17) Maya Konforti , a volunteer with the Auberge des Migrants, which works with refugees and migrants, warned of harsh police treatment of those in Calais.
(18) Photograph: AP Maya Foa, of anti-death penalty group Reprieve, said: “The state of Arizona had every reason to believe that this procedure would not go smoothly; the experimental execution ‘cocktail’ had only been used once before, and that execution too was terribly botched.
(19) "Some states will now be looking to change protocol for a second time; the different method [not lethal injection] is unlikely; swing states will surely consider the viability of executing … [it] doesn't make financial sense," said Maya Foa, a campaigner with London-based anti-death penalty lobby group Reprieve.
(20) Among his early influences were Jean Cocteau and the Italian neo-realists but, after arriving in New York in 1954, he joined the flourishing avant-garde scene, drawing inspiration from artists and filmmakers like Maya Deren, Marie Menken and Joseph Cornell.