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"Civil" in a Sentence (19 examples)
The novel is centered on the Civil War.
We cannot rule out the possibility that civil war will break out in that country.
This book gives a good picture of life in America during the Civil War.
England was once torn by civil war.
Many American high-school students do not know that the Civil War took place between 1861 and 1865.
The civil rights movement leads to a dream.
There's a very rigid hierarchy in the Civil Service.
The state government deprived him of his civil rights.
Why aren't women allowed to enjoy the same civil rights as men?
After decades of civil war, order was restored.
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She went into civil service because she wanted to help the people.
A third is wroth: ‘Is this an hour For private sorrow’s barren song, When more and more the people throng The chairs and thrones of civil power?’
It was very civil of him to stop the argument.
They despise each other, but they are always civil in public.
Herein thou haſt done good ſeruice to thy country: VVere all inhumaine ſlaues ſo ſerued as he, England would be ciuill, and from all ſuch dealings free.
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As if our Saviour had said, No man can enter into heaven except he be born again; so as he speaketh not only of notorious Sinners, as Adulterers, Drunkards, Swearers, & c. but of all who are in their natural condition, tho' they live never so unblameably, free from scandalous sins, if they be not born again, their civil Righteousness will do them little good, for they shall never see the Kingdom of God.
The word from which "evil" in Romans 13.4 is translated means "generally opposed to civil goodness or virtue, in a commonwealth, and not to spiritual good, or religion, in the church.
Some grammarians explain this passage as referring to a civil sanctity, in respect of the children being reckoned legitimate, but in this respect the condition of unbelievers is in no degree worse.
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