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How to use the word civil in a Sentence?

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In a free government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the one case in the multiplicity of interests, and in the other in the multiplicity of sects.

Alexander Hamilton

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3 months ago

In the field of civil engineering, if we don’t make an impact on the world, there won’t be a world to worry about.

Luna Lu

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8 months ago

Labor Day is a day to recognize the dignity of work and the contributions of working people to our society. Dedicated to no single man, sect or class, Labor Day celebrates the tireless collective efforts of all individuals striving to make our nation a better place for us, our children, and future generations. The farmer and the businessperson, the civil servant and the private sector worker, the state officers, all the workers..... let us honor their selfless service irrespective of their class or background. - Aloo Denish

Aloo Denish

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11 months ago

Every generation of Americans has faced a moment when they’ve had to defend democracy. Stand up for our personal freedoms. Stand up for the right to vote and our civil rights, and this is our moment.

Landov Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If someone’s self-identification doesn’t map onto the categories that federal law recognizes, the data does not really help people activate and protect their civil rights.

Thomas Wolf

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1 year ago

Does this allow us to do the things that the census is intended to do – voting rights, civil rights, allocation of congressional districts, race and ethnicity is central to the work of folks who are in those spaces.

Mark Hugo Lopez

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1 year ago

President Kennedy signed the original Community Mental Health Act of ’63. Attorney General Robert Kennedy created the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention in order to intervene early in young people’s lives, and my father was primary Senate sponsor of parity, these issues, and the incredible legacy that they all had on civil rights – from JFK being the first president to address the issue on national TV to RFK standing with Dr. King to my father’s seminal work on the Voting Rights Act – and immigration reform, are at the heart of my family’s legacy.

Patrick Kennedy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

While the settlement reached with the County of Los Angeles brings closure to more than two years of the civil lawsuit, it does not bring with it peace to our family or justice for our son, Andrés.

Cristobal Guardado

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Here in Massachusetts, we are not going to let one extremist judge in Texas turn back the clock on this proven medication and restrict access to care in our state, the action we are taking today protects access to mifepristone in Massachusetts and protects patients and providers from liability. In Massachusetts, we stand for civil rights and freedom. We will always protect access to reproductive health care, including medication abortion.

Massachusetts Gov. Maura T. Healey

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1 year ago

It shows Beijing is doing everything it can to punish human rights advocates and using cruel methods to crush China’s civil rights movement.

Teng Biao

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Law enforcement has the civil arrest warrant that authorizes them to detain the patient who is still refusing treatment.

The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department

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1 year ago

Rep. Tricia Cotham campaigned as a Democrat and supporter of abortion rights, health care, public education, gun safety, and civil rights, now, just a few months later, Rep. Cotham is changing parties. That is not the person that was presented to the voters of House District 112 … and who they championed in a general election in a 60 % Democratic district.

Robert Reives

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The descendants of the people who walk through that door were strong people, proud people, people have of deep faith. People who love their families, their traditions, their culture, and carried that innate being with them through all of these periods, went on to fight for civil rights, fight for justice in the United States of America and around the world. And all of us, regardless of your background, have benefited from their struggle and their fight for freedom and for justice.

Kamala Harris

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The reform is necessary and we will do it – but not at the cost of a civil war.

Nir Barkat

Found on CNN
1 year ago

So it is the State, the Justice and the Security Forces [police and Civil Guard] who must investigate and act immediately in the face of this type of event, then, within the sports field, there is a disciplinary code that also contemplates possible sanctions for this type of conduct. We want to insist that what happened with Vinícius is a hate crime, which is criminally prosecuted.

The AFE

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1 year ago

That has the potential to save hundreds of thousands of lives, like any voluntary initiative, whether it’s successful will really depend on how much the US government and others – nonprofits, civil society organizations – really hold industry accountable for that.

Laura Cobb

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Georgia’s international and bilateral partners have been very clear that adopting a ‘foreign agent’ bill would be inconsistent with Georgia’s stated commitments to human rights and its Euro-Atlantic aspirations, i hope the Georgian authorities would heed to the warning and instead of passing the bills that would clearly impede the work of independent groups and media, they should ensure safe and enabling environment for civil society in the country.

Giorgi Gogia

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The city of Austin Steele/CNN Atlanta has the most extensive training requirements in the Southeast, our training includes vital areas like de-escalation training techniques, mental health, community-oriented policing, crisis intervention training, as well as civil rights history education.

Andre Dickens

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He will highlight how the continued fight for voting rights is integral to delivering economic justice and civil rights for black Americans.

Kamala Harris

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Minsk regime is fighting civil society with violence and imprisonment.

Annalena Baerbock

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Civil Wars happen when the victimized are armed. Genocide happens when they are not.

A.E. Samaan

added by AlvaroSiman
1 year ago

The face of the typical gun owner being White, that can send a message to say, ‘oh, gun ownership is a civil right is only for White people,’ which is just factually incorrect.

Charlie Ha

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There’s been no conversation with the affected community, $100 a month is affordable to scholars at Ivy League institutions; it’s not affordable to under-resourced academic and civil-society researchers. If Twitter had that community in mind, it would be absolutely appropriate for them to reach out and have some conversations and perhaps introduce a sliding scale approach to this.

Rebekah Tromble

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The city of Atlanta has the most extensive training requirements in the southeast, our training includes vital areas like desecration training techniques, mental health, community-oriented policing, crisis intervention training as well as civil rights history education. This training needs space and that’s exactly what Atlanta Public Safety Training Center is going to offer.

Andre Dickens

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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