How To Use Civilian In A Sentence

In 2007, a jury let the Fairford Two off after they had broken into an RAF airbase to ground B-52 planes and prevent, they hoped, potential war crimes against Iraqi civilians.
Civilian life affords us the luxury of a good deal of deontology — better to let ten guilty men go free, and so on. One Waterboarding Is a Tragedy; A Million Is a Statistic
The constable was on leave and wearing civilian clothes.
The rebels were responsible for the mass murder of 400 civilians.
When faced with mass desertion, regiments often lacked the personnel to pursue the scofflaws, and soldiers could count on the sympathy of civilians willing to give them jobs rather than report them.

Manufactories are now making more and more civilian GPS receivers.
The new system "can cover the civilian and military sides," said Xu Shijie, a professor of astronautics at Beihang University in Beijing. Mistrust stalls U.S.-China space cooperation
Few parts of the aerospace or civilian airline industry bear much relation to free market theory.
She lives with my grandparents now and has adjusted to civilian life really well. The Sun
Fund company collection base civilian buy fund, redemptive the poundage when.
Marine pilots were advised to drop warning messages on the towns or villages concerned, allowing civilians time to get away. Warfare in the Twentieth Century
The team ensured that civilian airliners and local mustering aircraft were kept out of the way of the fast jets.
It's survived in a very peculiar form, with the so-called monks are actually married and have their hair long, unlike in the South where they're tonsured, and they wear civilian clothes but with the robes just over the tops of them.
Separately, Russia called on the international community to stop what it called the "indiscriminate" use of force in Libya, saying it was killing civilians. Arab League Criticizes Libya No-Fly Zone Implementation
Separate from civilian courts, the military judicial system handles violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
I NOTICE that apart from the widespread complaint that the German pilotless planes seem so unnatural (a bomb dropped by a live airman is quite natural, apparently), some journalists are denouncing them as barbarous, inhumane, and an indiscriminate attack on civilians. As I Please
Residents said at least five civilians were also wounded by flying debris.
Looking like film noir stills, these photographs were nighttime shots of the actual sites where the fateful encounters between police and civilians occurred.
This phenomenon has gone largely unremarked upon by US military and civilian officials.
Two-thirds of the output from its factories is for civilian use - washing machines, prams and hunting rifles, for instance.
Even if it wasn't clear enough back when he assembled his "team of rivals" and welcomed Wall Street into his administration, it has been absolutely clear at least since he capitulated to "counterinsurgent" generals and their civilian enablers, and to health care profiteers, that, whatever he may think and feel "inside," Obama is not one of the "good guys. Andrew Levine: Obama Winter and How to Combat It
The conflict claims roughly four civilian lives for every soldier or alleged guerrilla killed.
Major producers of military and civilian outdoor tent pole bracket, leisure travel with the climbing pole, ski pole, pole competition with products such as the arrow.
Eye-witness accounts told of the unprovoked shooting of civilians.
The Catholic commission said Sunday it compiled what it called credible witness reports of "systematic violence in the form of assaults, murders, torture, abductions and wanton destruction of property against innocent civilians whose alleged crime is to have voted wrongly. ANC Daily News Briefing
So why would the BBC ignore a story about an African government's armed forces bombing a town and killing civilians in contravention of a peace deal and UN Security Council resolutions? Another story that the BBC won't be covering, preferring instead to cover Israel's wickedness
In short, if the US government said the person was a civilian -- not a member of a foreign army or an irregular, but some nebulous sort of 'combatant' entitled to no more rights than a civilian -- it is estopped from claiming otherwise now. Discourse.net: Nation Mag Claims ICE has Network of Secret Detention Faciilities -- in the USA
The administration wants to minimize civilian casualties through pinpoint attacks using high-tech precision weapons.
The book argued that to win a war civilian leaders sometimes had to get really involved in the nitty-gritty details of how to conduct it. The Longest War
The Federal Aviation Administration is also notified to ensure that there is no conflict with civilian air traffic, she said.
An underground current in the U.S. military's officer corps believes that their legally elected civilian leaders can be disobeyed if an officer believes their orders to be "immoral. Robert Mackey: Politicizing the "Managers of Violence"
Treasure Island Naval Station is set to convert to civilian use when the Navy pulls out in 1997.
Does active military involvement in defense policymaking actually threaten civilian control?
Aid workers reported finding the displacement camps razed and empty of civilians. Times, Sunday Times
Instead, the rebels claim they have focused their attacks on unarmed civilians.
In the Republican zone, power remained in civilian hands and democratic forms were maintained until the end.
The bomb killed four soldiers and three civilians.
Hundreds of civilians helped in the search, using hacksaws to cut away metal sheeting trapping survivors and ropes to pull bodies from the wreckage, witnesses said.
In the face of such an onslaught, the Germans, military as well as civilians, were, by and large, defenceless.
Three admirals and a top Navy civilian will be cited for failing to act on reports of sexual assaults.
Many of the performers had entertained in the services, and their humour was of a different kind from civilian humour. CELEBRATING SECOMBE: A Tribute to Sir Harry Secombe
The war dragged on, costing the lives of many thousands of civilians and servicemen.
For National Poetry Month (April, to civilians), GottaBook's proprietor is promising new work by some of the finest kids 'poets in the land. Chicken Spaghetti:
You try and get down to the individual soldier, airmen, sailor, Marine level, coastguardsmen duty, civilian and look them in the eye and say, ‘How's it going?’
Much of the policing so far is unobjectionable in its goals and motivation but barely acceptable in the costs to innocent civilian bystanders.
Jakarta's instructions are implemented with great reluctance by provincial civilian and military leaders, who have not changed their old ways.
Every effort is being made to minimise civilian casualties.
In 1944, as a civilian, he flew fifty combat missions in the Pacific theater and shot down one Japanese fighter.
The generals have promise to a point(appoint) a civilian as temperately (temporary) prime minister within two weeks and to hold elections in October of next year.
The awards are made to civilians and police officers who put their lives at risk to save others.
It should be noted that it was only following the LTTE blocking of water supply to the East at the Mavilaru anicut, that the Government was compelled to undertake military operations against the LTTE in order to protect the civilian population and vital strategic assets including the Trincomalee Port. Asian Tribune
Thus the problems in the division became yet another battleground between the civilian government and the military.
Lawful targets also include dual-use objects like bridges, railheads, road networks, and similar transportation infrastructure used both by civilians and by enemy armed forces.
There were also few reports of civilians using the ceasefire to escape the city. Times, Sunday Times
Simeon II, or to give him his civilian name Simeon Borisov of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, styled himself "tsar of Bulgaria" while he lived in exile. Prepare for the reign of Charles the Meddler | Nick Cohen
An errant missile killed Iraqi civilians in January.
Nationalist officers gave orders in many areas to exterminate the civilian population.
The thing Matt hasn’t pondered is this: had prosecutions been pursued, then Obama’s policy of massive drone bombings in Afghanistan – that kill civilians right and left – would have led to prosecutions after his team leaves office as well. Matthew Yglesias » The Yoo and Bybee Rulings
Including the pompous local police commissaire; the unflappable intelligence officer from France; the slimy representative of the international oil cartel; and the personages - intelligence, governmental, and clerical of the remnants of the civilian oligarchy; as well as many others, including the Doctor's lover, a Hapsburg We Have All Been Disgraced By Corruption, A Review of Eric Ambler's Doctor Frigo
‘Just Folks’ is yet another Roth reversal: FDR's Civilian Conservation Corps was the actual (if benign) means of rusticating urban boys in the 1930s.
The Spanish civil war ushered in a new era in which the civilian population was enmeshed in the conflict.
After all, there you were, wearing civilian clothes, in a red-light district a long way from your diocese. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
Civilian trap in the beleaguer city has been airlifted to safety.
War has made life almost unbearable for the civilians remaining in the capital.
The army is already building up civilian militias close to the gas field.
civilians and soldiers were killed during the war.
Stingers can shoot down aircraft, including civilian jetliners, flying at low altitudes.
In its spare time, Teraflops will work on civilian projects and scientific research.
Originally set in a military hospital during the Blitz in 1941, the film relocates the action to a civilian emergency hospital during the doodlebug campaign of 1944.
Trains lines were dynamited, and civilians were attacking police stations and disarming police officers and taking them prisoner.
Assistant Secretary Owen said the latest estimates are that 35,000 civilians were able to flee the area Monday when government forces used explosives to create a gap in an "earthwork" wall a few miles long constructed by the Tigers using mechanical diggers. FOXNews.com
Two soldiers and one civilian were killed in the explosion.
More than 50 million soldiers and civilians perished in the Second World War.
Like many men of his generation who have experienced war, this is how he is; measured, deliberate, cool - as if nothing in civilian life is worth getting too exited about.
KABUL -- A new report that shows civilian casualties have soared in Afghanistan largely because of increased insurgent violence was thrown into relief Tuesday when a pair of suicide bombers blew themselves up and killed two other Afghans outside a foreign guesthouse in central Kabul. U.N. report links spike in Afghan civilian casualties to insurgent attacks
The civilian death toll jumped and support ebbed away. Times, Sunday Times
For wounded civilians at a U.S. military hospital in Afghanistan, the gatekeeper is God. The Doctor’s War
Counterfeit papers and civilian clothes were produced for use by escapees.
Today, only 3% of ordinary civilians are yet to return to their homes; though they are free to leave, they remain of their own volition until the de-mining/reconstruction work is completed, and the government of Sri Lanka continues to support them through its national welfare programs as well as through its relief organizations and by channeling funds from generous donors. Ru Freeman: A Few Peas Short of a Full Pod: Hillary Clinton & Tamil Nadu's Jayalalitha
At the Information Ministry, also on the river's west bank, civilians armed with rocket-propelled grenade rifles stood by and a half-dozen soldiers manned sandbagged positions.
Armed with cheap satellite-tracking handsets, teams of civilian surveyors are out in the field recording casual journeys and sharing geodata with each other to produce their own maps.
World leaders whose countries faced off on the battlefields of World War II paid tribute yesterday to the fallen soldiers and millions of civilian dead.
The civilian employer with a member of the royal family on its payroll has a chequered safety record. Times, Sunday Times
Bilbao and Madrid were bombed with no thought for civilians or buildings.
The point is that it is not possible, regretfully, in the world in which we live, for us to guarantee anyone's safety, civilian or military.
This study’s main recommendation is that the army adapt to the reality of Israeli civilian society, which is in dire need of land. Half of israel’s land is army-controlled
Cross offices hoping for a passage on the aid ship, but only foreign passport holders and some wounded civilians were expected to be allowed to board. Times, Sunday Times
He had apparently been bloviating about civilian casualties caused by military actions.
There is tension in the region following the killing of seven civilians.
We demand an end to the killing of innocent civilians.
In many areas civilians are struggling with serious shortages of food, medicine and clean water.
Ma'ruf said Israel was trying to cover up for killing thousands of Palestinian and Lebanese civilians.
It is, instead, a war waged by a despotic regime and its standing army against a captive civilian population. Times, Sunday Times
It is intended for use at a range of three to six metres to knock enemy troops out of action without putting civilian lives at risk. Times, Sunday Times
Accounts by military and civilian air-traffic officials agreed the commercial airliner had received proper permission to traverse the zone.
We strongly condemn this operation that happened in Jerusalem today, especially that it was directed against innocent Israeli civilians.
As national guardsmen pounded Rebel buildings with artillery fire and guided missiles innocent civilians were caught in the turmoil.
He said that helicopter gunships and navy patrol boats had strafed the communities, and that scores of civilians had been killed.
Treasure Island Naval Station is set to convert to civilian use when the Navy pulls out in 1997.
So the simple question is:'Are we willing to risk killing innocent civilians if it means winning the war? The Sun
All civilians possessing army-distributed guns must return them and undergo physical and psychological tests to determine their fitness to bear arms.
He started a popular purging of the members of the previous government and announced a return to civilian rule.
Besides, more civilian deaths have occurred in the area from earthquakes than in recent wars.
The George Cross is second only to the Victoria Cross and is the highest civilian award for gallantry, recognising that the recipient has put their life in extreme danger for the sake of others.
In the face of such an onslaught, the Germans, military as well as civilians, were, by and large, defenceless.
Despite the imprecision, Lapan said the military believes insurgents killed far more civilians than U.S. and allied forces have in Iraq. IEDs kill 21,000 Iraqi civilians 2005-2010
KUWAIT _ Unarmed Iraqis in civilian clothes crossed into Kuwait for the second time in as many days Monday and removed equipment from a disputed naval base Baghdad considers within its own territory, a U.N. official said. ANC Daily News Briefing
The father of five is set on a civilian career in leadership and management training, it is understood.
The fact that a coastguard was the first on board may save some complications, later on, in the Admiralty Court; for coastguards cannot claim the salvage which is the right of the first civilian entering on a derelict. Dracula
Leaders of the military establishment do not, any more than their civilian colleagues, define their economy by its defects.
Reported near collisions involving military and civilian aircraft have dropped dramatically in the 1990s.
Many innocent civilians were killed during the war.
Clinton said last week in Rome world powers must show the Syrian government that there are consequences for what she called a "brutal crackdown" on civilians. US Says Syrian Repression Only Spurs More Unrest
Dozens of civilians were reportedly killed in the crossfire.
The filmmakers bring us to the marketplace of Charikar, the town selected for the hospital, to meet the civilians: war widows reduced to beggary, young children employed as metalworkers.
There were civilian sea captains, killed far from home when their ships ran aground on the reef.
Her work included accompanying unarmed civilians being threatened by an armed group, serving as a protective presence.
The killing of innocent civilians by suicide bombers must be roundly condemned.
JAMIE MCINTYRE, CNN SENIOR MILITARY AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT (voice - over): If you needed a lesson in civilian control of the military, Donald Rumsfeld gave it at Tuesday's Pentagon press briefing, when he suddenly pronounced the term insurgent expression non grata. CNN Transcript Nov 29, 2005
One outstanding feature of that war was how few civilian casualties there were.
I saw what I called cooked stories -- plain and simply, military operations that were well planned and well executed and were real success stories but made very dull reading, and so you throw in a few civilian atrocities, you throw in a few short rounds or something like that and all of a sudden it becomes a sexy story that sells. It Doesn't Take a Hero
Eighty percent of all of the IEDs are being identified by the local population, and information is being conveyed about them before they are detonated, which is a much higher percentage -- meaning much greater civilian population cooperation -- than we ever saw in Iraq. CNN Transcript Jan 25, 2009
Two police officers and a civilian have been killed so far, with the unrest effectively shutting down down the capital's central business district. Times, Sunday Times
Treasure Island Naval Station is set to convert to civilian use when the Navy pulls out in 1997.
Here is the civilian victor of the civil war, monumentally appreciated, monumentally declared.
The civilian chief of the TU is a shambles and a liability and nobody wants to work under him, and the rumour machine spreads fast about what he’s like. Leave My Kitten Alone « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
KABUL -- On the 18th of May, as Hamid Karzai prepared to report on his notably successful visit to the United States, a suicide bomber in Kabul detonated his explosive-laden van, killing 6 coalition soldiers and 12 Afghan civilians, wounding nearly 50 others. Lt. Col. Ed Ledford: What Effect Did the Taliban Attacks Have? None. Really, None.
Alsop, said the memo, is a civilian columnist and is not accepted as a military authority.
Because radiation floor cover has capability of strong store heat and exothermic, the use ofintermittent adjustment is more superiority and very suitable for civilian residential.
Never mind the billions of innocent civilians there, or the brave warriors fighting to defend them.
Yet this attack is also similar to the kind of multiple shootings we see in civilian life. The Sun
Councillor Douglas said civilians would have been slaughtered had the device gone off.
The authorities are said to take the view that the Gulf war will distract attention from civilian casualties in Jaffna.
Reported near collisions involving military and civilian aircraft have dropped dramatically in the 1990s.
UN troops are in a cleft stick: something has to be done for the civilian population, yet to retaliate would surely be the spark to ignite all-out war.
All had clashed with their civilian superiors, and their campaigns imploded for the same reasons that led to those clashes: assertions of intellectual superiority, moral certitude and the lack of a common touch.
Accordingly, This Week transmitted a 10-minute roll of raw footage of paratroopers recollecting what they said happened, plus a matching roll of equally raw footage from civilians who'd been present. David Tereshchuk: Struggle Through Decades to Overturn Massacre Lies
Locals claim the dead were civilians shot by snipers or caught in crossfire.
Many of the paramilitaries are wearing civilian clothes and hiding amongst the population.
Peasant leaders say their communities are still targeted in a counter-insurgency campaign by the military that intimidates poor, mainly indigenous civilians.
Many civilians died as a result of allied bombing.
White phosphorus is legal if fired as a battlefield smokescreen but it is banned in civilian areas, where its use could constitute a war crime. Times, Sunday Times
In January, it was announced that 1, 000 skilled civilian jobs will stay at McClellan for five more years.
Only one facility, the White Sands Missile Testing Range in New Mexico, experienced a modest decline in civilian payroll costs.
Scattered around the airstrip are some of Afghanistan's 10 million landmines, which every day leave innocent civilians limbless.
More than 100 former prisoners of war and civilian internees attended the reunion.
U.N. representatives joined actors Edward James Olmos, who played the commander of the show's title warship, and Mary McDonnell, who starred as President Laura Roslin, his civilian superior. NPR Topics: News
The result was a campaign misconceived at the outset and badly coordinated not only between civilian and military but between the various levels of command.
Its use is not illegal under international law, but it is regarded as a particular risk to civilians. Times, Sunday Times
The war correspondent that marines were responding harshly against civilians.
At the vet clinic they pretty much pull out the Kevlar but we civilian types can't go full metal jacket.
When civilian family members are actually killed in Afghanistan, their relatives do, in fairness, get greater solatia payments than cans of beans and Hershey bars. Afghanistan war logs: Secret CIA paramilitaries' role in civilian deaths
Much as one would wish it so, politically motivated violence directed at civilians by desperate people can no more be extirpated than can ‘evil’ itself.
Short of carpet-bombing the entire country and creating huge civilian casualties, weather conditions will prove inimical to a broadly based ‘search and destroy’ mission.
Government aircraft have been bombing civilian areas.
By then also, all unessential civilians had been evacuated.
One cannot ignore the fact that this chessboard is populated by people who have to endure [this crisis] every day," Kurtzer says, point out how Israel considers it absolutely unacceptable to come under constant rocket bombardment from Palestinian areas and how Palestine considers it absolutely unacceptable for Israeli reprisals to carry such "civilian cost. We Want Two States | ATTACKERMAN
The rugged and capacious airframe offers plenty of scope for civilian operators.
Build up world support using Ahmadinejad's oppressive and brutal response to the civilian protestors and dissidents, many of whom are remnants of a tyrant who preceded Ahmadinejad and the Ayatollahs there, the dreaded murderer, the Shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. Ray Hanania: Don't Give Ahmadinejad the Excuses He Wants
Thousands of suspects, military and civilian, were put to death.
The complaint against them, it seems, is that they supplied the troops around Sarajevo who shelled and sniped at civilians.
SARAJEVO - The United Nations prepared to escort hundreds of women, children and elderly civilians from the besieged Bosnian capital of Sarajevo after their evacuation was delayed for weeks, ANC Daily News Briefing
All the incidents are still under investigation by civilian and military authorities.
June 6 -- Belgian Legation at Washington gives out a statement answering the German White Book recently issued at Berlin making accusations against the Belgian civilian population; reply denounces allegations of franc-tireur warfare as false and unsupported; Belgian Government, instead of encouraging civilian resistance, warned the population against it. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915
There is a good case that the military should have court procedures that are different from those that judge conduct in civilian life. Times, Sunday Times
This will go some way toward repairing the damage to the principle of civilian supremacy.
I spent the rest of the day, indeed much of the rest of the conference, buttonholing leading nuclear figures of this and other nations with that same forbidden question: what happens if deterrence fails and you have to decide whether to kill millions of innocent civilians because you threatened to? How the End Begins
Yet this attack is also similar to the kind of multiple shootings we see in civilian life. The Sun
Police forces should also be stripped of the sole power to discipline their own officers by being required to bring civilians on to disciplinary panels. Times, Sunday Times
Three civilians were wounded when a roadside bomb hit a police patrol in the city centre. Times, Sunday Times
This constantly simmering conflict is taken out on the civilian population. Times, Sunday Times
He left the army and returned to civilian life.
As the theatre of war moved south, so did the smallpox, primarily affecting civilians, camp followers, and irregular troops in both armies.
They negotiated a cease-fire unknown to officials and against the express wishes of the civilian neocons in charge of the Pentagon.
Despite the hand-wringing that followed, there was no inclination to consider whether the NSC should be reserved for civilian leadership. Dangers of a politicized military
Correcting the culture within the military is being done in a very pointed way, said Joice Jones, a civilian social worker who coordinates Luke Air Force Base's sexual assault prevention and response program and helps run prevention workshops. Troops seek help for military sexual trauma
What we saw during the advance confirmed our impressions from the air as to the unspeakableness of the Hun in his methods of dealing with the civilian population. The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force
Rather than dumping its stock of surplus Jeeps into Manila Bay, the American authorities released them to civilians.
It happened just 10 months ago under the elected civilian government of President Olusegun Obasanjo.
Forts were constructed to garrison auxiliary troops, and to act as supply bases; in time these attracted civilian settlements.
After the Second World War eminent surviving German and Japanese civilian and military figures were arraigned on criminal charges before international tribunals.
Not included here, however, is the massacre of 175 civilians in the Yazidi community in Iraq. Paul Krassner: A**holes of the Week #6
There was to be no pause for reflection, nor - much less - for a changeover from military to civilian rule.
UN troops will secure the land corridor so that food supplies can reach the trapped civilians.
They would obviously be a far more exciting splash than could ever be caused by a muggle, civilian, or no-tail. Times, Sunday Times
In 1987 the Socialists took the unprecedented step of appointing a civilian to command the force.
But with strikes occurring in a mountainous sparely populated region, civilian causalities are rare.
Tea baggers were cheering, as they defecated in their trousers out of pure joy at the sight of the civilian casualties. Aide: Obama doesn't think tea partiers are racist
Enemy prisoners, former Russian POWs, civilian repatriates, and the civilian criminal and political prisoners collectively made up the convict labour force of several million souls.
The tank drives over a dead, muddied body and civilians hang from telegraph posts. The Sun
Yet the army 's top brass has also been unwilling to unleash its firepower on civilians in the centre of the capital. Times, Sunday Times
You will also receive advanced vocational training and undergo unique experiences that are unrivaled in the civilian world.
Two years of barbaric fighting in the most inhospitable mountain terrain left 1m soldiers and civilians dead. Times, Sunday Times
FRANK WUTERICH: It's clear that innocent civilians died that day, but they died according to what we call the fog of war. CNN Transcript Jun 12, 2006
I became the operator, mechanic, and only member of the motor pool of six or eight vehicles confiscated from German civilians.
The enemy soldier disguised as civilian.
US and UK officials have insisted that no official record of civilian casualties exists but the logs record 66,081 non-combatant deaths out of a total of 109,000 fatalities. WikiLeaks' Iraq War Logs: US Troops Abused Prisoners Years After Abu Ghraib
The discredited military junta handed the country back to the civilian politicians. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
Implement combined orientation training for Senior Executive Service civilians and general officers.
These are not economically well-off, but slightly higher than the status of the civilian population in the community of scholars known as the "poor scholar.

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