8 sentences with 'civil'
Example sentences and phrases with the word civil and other words derived from it.
• « Carlos, the son of a civil servant, had become engaged to the daughter of a banker and was pursuing a Ph.D. in zoology at the University of Madrid. »
• « Soldiers and civilians who had no opportunity for education during the decade of civil war attend evening classes. »
• « Egypt became embroiled in a long period of civil war and conflict, and from that time onwards Egypt proved vulnerable to foreign conquest. »
• « One strong possibility is that there was a sustained civil war between Mycenaean palace settlements that resulted in a fatal disruption of the economic environment that was essential to their very existence. »
• « The period between 650 - 500 BCE is sometimes called the "Age of Tyrants" in Greek history because many polis instituted tyrants to avoid civil war between the aristocrats and the less wealthy citizens during this period. »
• « The crisis of representation reached a boiling point around 600 BC when there was a real possibility of civil war between ordinary citizens and aristocrats. »
• « Pericles instituted a policy of paying civil servants, who had worked for free in the past, a move that drastically decreased the potential for corruption through bribery and opened up the possibility for poorer citizens to hold public office. »
• « In 399 BC, Macedonia was plunged into an ongoing civil war, in which the nobles openly rejected the king's authority and the country slid into anarchy. »