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How to use the word civilian in a Sentence? Page #6

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The 2018 National Defense Authorization Act requires the Department of Defense to submit a report on civilian casualties caused as a result of United States military operations.

United States

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We will implement the military strategy for the new era, strengthen military training under combat conditions, and firmly protect China's sovereignty, security and development interests, we will further implement the military-civilian integration strategy, and speed up efforts to make innovations in defense-related science and technology.

Li Keqiang

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

There are no civilian casualties in this building. But there may be dead civilians under the collapsed Hilco UK restaurant which is also nearby.

Captain Mohamed

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

So far there are no (civilian) casualties but there is panic among people, we have an evacuation plan in place and if need arises we will evacuate people to safer areas.

Rahul Yadav

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

As the lapse in appropriation continues, more than 55,000 Coast Guard active duty, reserve, and civilian employees will not receive monthly pay and benefits. In addition, the federal funding hiatus may affect the retired pay for 50,000 Coast Guard annuitants.

Scott McBride

Found on CNN
5 years ago

A civilian doing his work in the pursuit of national defense is just as much a soldier as a man in uniform, if not better; because patriotism is a moral quality which should be possessed by all.

Vicente Lim

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5 years ago

Two The US service members, one Department of Defense( DoD) civilian and one contractor supporting DoD were killed and three service members were injured while conducting a local engagement in Manbij, Syria, initial reports indicate an explosion caused the casualties, and the incident is under investigation.

The US

Found on CNN
5 years ago

These scaffold designs can be customized to all sorts of types of injuries that soldiers experience but on the civilian side, it has wider implications for all sorts of injuries, including traumatic accidents, bone cancers…so it’s really exciting to see that we can potentially benefit not only our soldiers who are helping serve our country, but everyone else, as well.

David Gonzales

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Organ transport is an ideal initial use for civilian drone flights, i think the FAA would appreciate a program like the one I am suggesting.

Joseph Scalea

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Radical environmental groups are blocking the export of Wyoming coal from civilian facilities, while we pursue legal challenges to the unconstitutional actions of these groups, developing decommissioned military facilities as export terminals is an important alternative.

Maddy Weast

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The Russians and Iranians consider any assault on Idlib to be a dangerous escalation of the conflict in Syria, airstrikes by The Russians and the regime have already begun against civilian areas.

The United

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Our noncombat support focuses on improving coalition processes and procedures, especially regarding compliance with the law of armed conflict and best practices for reducing the risk of civilian casualties.

The Pentagon

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Today's ruling against Reuters reporters Wa Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo on bogus charges marks a new press freedom low for Myanmar, the process that resulted in their convictions was a travesty of justice and will cast Myanmar as an anti-democratic pariah as long as they are wrongfully held behind bars. We call on Myanmar's civilian authorities to immediately release the journalists.

Shawn Crispin

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This is a major step towards unmanned civilian planes.

Elad Aharonson

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We lack civilian specialists so when there is a crisis in this country, we turn to the army.

Kan Yuenyong

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Disruption to satellites could leave civilian as well as military installations subject to huge (real world) disruptions, we are extremely dependent on their functionality.

Vikram Thakur

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Disruption to satellites could leave civilian as well as military installations subject to huge [real world] disruptions, we are extremely dependent on their functionality.

Vikram Thakur

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Thousands of Taliban fighters were allowed to enter with guns and some of them could be hiding in civilian areas, planning attacks.

Amrullah Saleh

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I told the captain of the yacht, who was a brigadier, to get rid of the military uniforms of the crew, weapons and munitions and pose as civilian ship in case it is caught by the American warships.

Ali Hussein

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

She has earned the respect of the agency workforce, of her peers, of Republicans, of Democrats, of military officers, of civilian security leaders, evidenced by the number of letters received in support of her nomination too numerous to read.

Richard Burr

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Now the Myanmar military is attacking and following them. They ran away after attacking the civilian targets, this is not an ethnic rights movement, this is a terrorist attack.

Zaw Htay

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

People lost their trust in the State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi because the people from the whole country elected the NLD, the civilian government, to avoid wars and fighting.

Sut Seng Htoi

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We’d like to provide the telecom services for those astronauts, those civilian astronauts or space tourism astronauts. And I think the important thing there is to give them the opportunity to share the experience of being in space.

Mark Matossian

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The notion that it is ebbing, this war, is completely wrong. This war is on and it's still in the midst of the civilian population.

Jan Egeland

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

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