NOUN
- activities organized by civilians for their own protection in time of war or disaster
How To Use civil defense In A Sentence
- Blackwater, however, argued that the men were betrayed by the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps and targeted in a well-planned ambush. Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Blaming Blackwater For Grisly Deaths
- Incredibly sturdy, it had been built to serve as a nuclear bomb shelter if necessary, supposedly an impregnable fortress of civil defense.
- While more than 60,000 homeless from hundreds of flood-ravaged villages spent a miserable Christmas in jam-packed schools and gymnasiums, search teams retrieved an additional 150 bodies from the sea as far as 60 miles 100 kilometers from worst-hit Cagayan de Oro and Iligan cities, said Benito Ramos, head of the Office of Civil Defense. Philippines Floods 2011: Bodies Found Far Away From Ravaged Villages, Coastline
- Civil Defense authorities say 18 bridges and many more roads have been destroyed.
- The government news agency Notimex said 15 were dead while a Civil Defense spokesman said he had reports of 25 confirmed killed.
- The Civil Defense department of Alagoas state received reports from local officials of 600 people missing in the chaos, but suggested most were not in danger. Brazilian Floods Kill Dozens, Food And Aid Rushed To Affected Areas
- Thanks to the workers of the Civil Defense Laboratory, in cooperation with other institutions, we now have a Cuban reagent, which is very good and very efficient for the analysis of AIDS, but large amounts of it are expended by the old equipment. CASTRO SPEAKS AT IMMUNILOGY CENTER
- The government news agency Notimex said 15 were dead while a Civil Defense spokesman said he had reports of 25 confirmed killed.
- We better get lucky'cause we just got a new assessment from civil defense.
- We're going to continue basically reinventing the civil defense movement that that aided our country during World War II.