Word Finder - civil

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Having to do with people and government office as opposed to the military or religion.

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She went into civil service because she wanted to help the people.

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Behaving in a reasonable or polite manner.

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It was very civil of him to stop the argument.

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Relating to private relations among citizens, as opposed to criminal matters.

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a civil case

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Secular.

The last civil war set us back fifty years.

Alex was civil to Señor Medena, if not friendly.

Someone told me that it was built by Union soldiers hiding from the rebels during the Civil War.

In other words, civil government steps in to take over roles traditionally provided by private charity only when charities no longer provide the service.

There were likely some nasty security features on the other side of the Mississippi left over from the East-West Civil War.

And, the government chose to pursue the PMF rather than risk another civil war by going after people with a lot of influence and money.

Equity here is defined to mean "any body of rules existing by the side of the original civil law, founded on distinct principles, and claiming incidentally to supersede the civil law in virtue of a superior sanctity inherent in those principles."

Whether or not Josh was civil to him wouldn't make or break his day.

He was educated partly privately and partly at a board school, and in 1886 entered the Civil Service.

When, however, the Civil War began, he volunteered into the navy, was rated acting master's mate, and became a midshipman in October 1861, and a lieutenant in July 1862, serving in the North Atlantic blockading squadron.

I am not merely civil to him but obey him like a corporal, though I am his senior.

If anything, the strikes look like something that would've occurred during the East-West Civil War.

Now all these men were replaced by Speranski on the civil side, and Arakcheev on the military.

Reminiscent of the Civil War fifty years ago, only the PMF is being blamed.

The people credited the PMF with saving them from the elite's Civil War while the elites tried hard to stamp out the PMF's existence.

Like other ecclesiastical lawyers and civil servants of the day, he was paid with ecclesiastical preferments.

But the Civil War interrupted development.

He was overtaken by a dangerous illness, and on the 2nd of March civil war in support of the king broke out.

A bishop refusing to come to Rome was to be brought there by the civil power.

The " termino municipal " is the chief political and administrative civil division.

Very much was done for public works, sanitation, the reform of administration, civil service and education.

The civil code of the republic is based upon Roman law.

The emperor Caracalla, wishing to make use of this civil war for a conquest of the East in imitation of his idol, Alexander the Great, attacked the Parthians in 216.

If he would not forthwith come and lead them,"they had told him," they would go their own way without him."The supremacy of the army without a guiding hand meant anarchy, that of the Presbyterians the outbreak of another civil war.

In a letter to the city, possibly written by Cromwell himself, the officers repudiated any wish to alter the civil government or upset the establishment of Presbyterianism, but demanded religious toleration.

The estates of only twenty-four leaders of the defeated cause were forfeited by Cromwell, and the national church was left untouched though deprived of all powers of interference with the civil government, the general assembly being dissolved in 1653.

Doctrines directly attacking Christianity Cromwell regarded, indeed, as outside toleration and to be punished by the civil power, but at the same time he mitigated the severity of the penalty ordained by the law.

All the members of the suppressed communities received full exercise of all the ordinary political and civil rights of laymen; and annuities were granted to all those who had taken permanent religious vows prior to the 18th of January 1864.

The statistics of civil proceedings vary considerably from province to province.

The courts of appeal and cassation, too, often have more than they can do; in the year 1907 the court of cassation at Rome decided 948 appeals on points of law in civil cases, while no fewer than 460 remained to be decided.

The law of the 23rd of January 1887 (still in force) extended the dispositions of the Civil Code with regard to privileges, and established special privileges in regard to harvested produce, produce stored in barns and farm buildings, and in regard to agricultural implements.

Early in the 10th century the papacy fell into the hands of a noble family, known eventually as the counts of Tusculum, who almost succeeded in rendering the office hereditary, and in uniting the civil and ecclesiastical functions of the city under a single member of their house.

Under the imperial rule of Lothar the Saxon (1125-1137) and Conrad the Swabian (1138I I 52), these civil wars increased in violence owing to the absence of authority.

Civil Wan He lost the island, which gave itself to Aragon; and of Gue!phs thus the kingdom of Sicily was severed from that of anj Naples, the dynasty in the one being Spanish and Ghibelline, in the other French and Guelph.

He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1881, served two years as midshipman, then resigned from the navy and became a civil engineer.

It is clear that at this time the fury of the civil wars was spent.

A month later, under the pretence of stilling the civil strifes in the Valtelline, Bonaparte absorbed that Swiss district in the Cisalpine Republic, which thus included all the lands between Como and Verona on the north, and Rimini on the south.

Garibaldi, elected member for Naples, ouficed Cavour in unmeasured terms for his treatment of the inteers and for the cession of Nic,e, accusing him of leading country to civil war.

In the matter of criminal jurisdiction we paused for a moment at the edict of Milan; but we may at once trace this second or civil branch of episcopal judicature or quasi-judicature down as far as the reign of Charlemagne, when it underwent a fundamental change, and became, if either litigant once chose, no longer a matter of consent but of right.

The episcopal judgment was to be equivalent to that of the emperor and irreversible, and the civil authorities were to see to its execution.

If the prosecutor have first brought him before the civil judge, the evidence is to be sent to the bishop, and the latter, if he thinks the crime has been committed, may deprive him of his office and order, and the judge shall apply to him the proper legal punishment.

Other exceptions are the " Institutions of the Empress Marie," which absorb, inter alia, the duties on playing-cards and the taxes on places of public entertainment; the imperial civil list, so far as this does not exceed the sum fixed in 1906 (16,359,595 roubles!); the expenses of the two imperial chanceries, 10,000,000 roubles per annum, which constitute in effect a secret service fund.

The civil procedure was kept secret.

The first of these, based on the English model, are the courts of the elected justices of the peace, with jurisdiction over petty causes, whether civil or criminal; the second, based on the French model, are the ordinary tribunals of nominated judges, sitting with or without a jury to hear important cases.

The senate, as supreme court of cassation, has two departments, one for civil and one for criminal cases.

All civil cases involving less than z oo roubles value were within their competence, and more important cases by consent of the parties.

Both the Molokani and the Dukhobortsi deny the authority of the civil government as such, and object on principle to military service.

It always had a prince, no doubt, but he was engaged by formal contract without much attention being paid to hereditary rights, and he was merely leader of the troops, while all the political power remained in the hands of the civil officials and the Vetche, a popular assembly which was called together in the market-place, as occasion required, by the tolling of the great bell.

For this purpose he organized, outside the regular administration, a large corps of civil officials and armed retainers, whose duty it was to obey him implicitly in all things; and with this force, which rose rapidly from 1000 to 6000 men, he acted like a savage invader in a conquered country.

Well trained as was the civil service of France, the effect of this supervision in deadening activity was sometimes more marked than in its effect in preventing abuse.