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Example sentences for "civic"

Lexicographically close words:
civem; cives; civet; civets; civibus; civics; civil; civile; civiles; civilest
  1. Undoubtedly enough of the old feeling for civic life remained to create a prejudice against one who held aloof from the affairs of the city.

  2. It is your business to conduct the course of elementary instruction in civic morality, and this is how you practise it!

  3. You are appointed to give the elementary course of lessons in civic morality: is it thus that you practise that morality?

  4. In the absence of any civic documents bearing upon the affair it is difficult to establish the fact that this was the character in which Agatha and Burnamy were commonly regarded by the inhabitants of Weimar.

  5. When he's in power again, he will be as subjective as ever, with the power of civic life and death, and an idolatrous following perfectly ruthless in the execution of his will.

  6. She laughed forlornly, but after a moment she took his arm; and he began, from the example of this good mother, to philosophize the continuous simplicity and sanity of the people of Ansbach under all their civic changes.

  7. Again they noted the English solidity of the civic edifices, and already they had observed in the foreign population a difference from that at home.

  8. Then no appeal to her principles could keep her from peeping through the reading-room door into the rotunda, where the King graciously but speedily dismissed the civic gentlemen and the proprietor, and vanished into the elevator.

  9. Well, we found a number of columns of right pert comment on local men, women and events and many square feet of baseball write-ups that Phillips seemed highly tickled over; but of civic reform editorials, not a one.

  10. I modestly assured him that I couldn't claim to have done a lot for temperance during the time I sat in his chair, but that I had taken an active interest in civic reform.

  11. People spoke of him to me as an energetic civic and temperance worker, declaring that he had been indefatigable in his efforts to put down drink all over Park County.

  12. Within a century there has been a growing tendency to admit women to all the civic privileges enjoyed by men, even to vote in political contests.

  13. He stands for all that works for civic betterment and improvement and is a close student of the vital problems affecting the welfare of city, province and nation.

  14. At one time he was mayor of Westmount and has taken an active part in furthering matters of civic virtue and civic pride.

  15. It was so in civic affairs and resulted in his being much against his inclination, elected to the council.

  16. He is a member of the Civic Secretaries’ Association in connection with the National Municipal League of America, a member of the National Housing Association, the International City Planning Conference and the American Civic League.

  17. No movement tending to promote civic virtue or civic pride has failed to receive his indorsement and support.

  18. For two years he was a member of the Montreal city council and brought his splendid business acumen to bear on civic problems, proving himself one of the strongest men at the council table.

  19. Mr. David Morrice is now eighty-four years of age, but still maintains deep and active interest in the church and in the benevolent and civic projects with which he is identified.

  20. He did much during that period toward shaping the policy of city affairs and upholding those interests which are a matter of civic virtue and civic pride.

  21. Company in the Queen’s Own Rifles his interest in civic affairs never waned.

  22. Mr. Evans was deeply interested in affairs of public moment, kept well informed concerning the claims of vital interest and gave his indorsement to many measures that are a matter of civic virtue and civic pride.

  23. He would have liked a child, a son to bring up, a domestic tie, since political conditions prevented him from accomplishing a civic duty.

  24. It rather stretched his short arms to embrace at once a gay old dream of seeing Venice and the stern civic duty of hunting abominably dangerous beasts in the Guatemala bush.

  25. It is a block where the citizens have civic pride.

  26. That which was the chief of civic virtues on the 24th February has become the greatest of civic crimes on the 24th June.

  27. On the other side of her was an individual in a civic chain, whose fat, pursy, apoplectic appearance, and nose of the colour of an Orleans plum, thoroughly realised my mental picture of the Bailie.

  28. Bailie Beerie and the other magistrates seemed uneasy at their unusual proximity to a personage who had the power of death and transportation, and therefore abstained from emitting the accustomed torrent of civic facetiousness.

  29. According to the conceptions of bourgeois, or capitalistic society, the civic equality of men and women is deemed an ultimate solution of the woman question.

  30. The new civic jurisprudence in the course of time found its most classic expression in the Roman state, that explains the influence exerted by Roman law down to the present time.

  31. The division into gentes and phratries for centuries remained the foundation of military organization and the enactment of civic rights.

  32. At that time a book on the civic improvement in the condition of men would have been equally justified.

  33. Like the men, they should take part in military exercises and should perform all civic duties, only should the lighter tasks be alloted to them on account of the weakness of their sex.

  34. Men who favor these endeavors of women within the scope of present society, as well as the bourgeois women who are active in the movement, consider complete civic equality of women the ultimate goal.

  35. But if a man marries a foreign woman or takes unto himself a concubine, his children are deprived of all civic rights, even though he be the most eminent man in the state.

  36. In France, the cathedrals were the centre of civic life; their organs were the heart-throbs of the people; their bells were notes of warning.

  37. Both could thus in this most free and commanding location give way to a new and larger cathedral, distant from what would always prove the rallying point of civic strife.

  38. We may describe it as the possibility of eminent civic virtue existing in people, without either literary taste or science or speculative curiosity.

  39. In other words, we ought to be less concerned about the speculative or scientific curiousness of our people than about the height of their notion of civic virtue and their firmness and persistency in realising it.

  40. The pacification of civic troubles in 1738 was followed by a quarter of a century of extreme prosperity and contentment, and it is in such periods that the minds of men previously trained are wont to turn to the great matters of speculation.

  41. By what subtle process did Rousseau, whose ideal had been a summer life among all the softnesses of sweet gardens and dappled orchards, turn into panegyrist of the harsh austerity of old Cato and grim Brutus's civic devotion?

  42. For instance, he describes a visit to Geneva as having been made shortly before Lautrec's temporary pacification of the civic troubles of that town; and that event took place in the spring of 1738.

  43. Pericles is the representative figure in the golden age of Athenian greatness, the most perfect example of that equable and harmonious development in every faculty of body and mind which was the aim of Greek civic life at its best.

  44. These programs include both discussion of educational topics having to do with all phases of agriculture, home life, and civic affairs, but also music, recitations and other entertaining features.

  45. Such a civic center will be found to be a powerful factor in the maintenance of community pride and loyalty.

  46. At one time he was connected with the New York Central Railroad, and in 1905 he undertook organization of the Civic Federation of New England, devoted to the betterment of relations between employers and employees.

  47. Not infrequently the one thing which evinces some civic pride in an otherwise stagnant community is its well-kept cemetery.

  48. If national history is taught to develop patriotism, why should not local history be taught to inspire civic loyalty?

  49. With the new responsibilities of suffrage rural women are following the example of their city sisters in taking a larger interest in civic affairs and social legislation, and with a most wholesome influence on community life.

  50. There are recently created regions in that great tract of the earth's surface known as South Kensington which in their quaintness of architectural form and braveness of red brick can defy the gloom of a civic March or November.

  51. Now that he was in quiet civic life, it was easy enough for him to get as much unbroken sleep as he needed.

  52. Teutonic civilization, indeed, has never passed through a stage in which the foremost position has been held by civic communities.

  53. In this one respect Athens transgressed the bounds of ancient civic organization, and no doubt it gained greatly in power thereby.

  54. But this change once accomplished, the civic exclusiveness of Athens remained very much what it was before.

  55. This was well illustrated in the history of Rome,--a civic community of the same generic type with Sparta and Athens, but presenting specific differences of the highest importance.

  56. Under the conditions of Graeco-Roman civic life there were but two practicable methods of forming a great state and diminishing the quantity of warfare.

  57. My tendency is to treat you as a stranger, not to give you credit for noble generosity and genuine civic virtue.

  58. At the end of several days, all the organizations in town that dealt in civic pride got together and arranged for a banquet for the distinguished stranger.

  59. Who, should you say, has the most civic pride in town?

  60. It was, indeed, a neck-and-neck race between them as to who had the greater quantity of civic pride.

  61. You see, my friends, civic pride is the only thing that the government hasn't taxed.

  62. The mayor, who was swelling with civic pride, vied with the president of the Woman's Club.

  63. I have no civic pride myself, but do you mind, sir, telling me the object of your visit to this lovely little burg?

  64. Has anybody else any civic pride here that you could name?

  65. The Town Council thinks it has, and the Board of Education thinks it has, but pay no attention to them; we are on the job day and night; as a factory for turning out civic pride, nobody in this vicinity can beat us.

  66. The Church was so wicked in the face of these immaculate champions of civic morality!

  67. It stipulated, moreover, that in case of resistance the offending clergy should be treated as disturbers of the public peace, and deprived of their civic rights.

  68. He had received no less than forty-five wounds in different fights before he was fifty-eight years old, and had had fourteen civic crowns.

  69. For the Romans gave an oak-leaf wreath, which they called a civic crown, to a man who saved the life of a fellow-citizen, and a mural crown to him who first scaled the walls of a besieged city.

  70. It was right and fitting that the chief executive of the Reclamation Service should have a part in the rejoicings, and Brouillard found himself discomfortingly emphasized as chairman of the civic reception committee.

  71. He had fixed upon the third Sunday in August for the great trial, for the Monday following was a civic holiday, the anniversary of the founding of the city.

  72. So Messer Hugolin contented himself with black looks and an acid jibe at the vanity of his civic associates, who multiplied holidays that they might have opportunity to display themselves in their gold chains and red robes of office.


  73. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "civic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    absolute; aristocratic; authoritarian; autocratic; autonomous; bureaucratic; chauvinistic; city; civic; civil; common; communal; constitutional; cosmopolitan; democratic; despotic; dictatorial; diplomatic; downtown; fascist; general; governmental; gubernatorial; international; interurban; matriarchal; midtown; monarchical; municipal; national; official; parliamentary; patriarchal; pluralistic; politic; political; public; republican; social; state; statesmanlike; suburban; totalitarian; town; uptown; village