How to Use civil in a Sentence

civil

adjective
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  • After that case ended with Spacey’s acquittal on all charges, the actor’s lawyers failed to file his defense in the civil suit on time.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 7 May 2024
  • The obliteration of civil society, pictures of dead children, and the wails of their mothers are no longer mediated by the press.
    — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 8 May 2024
  • In the past, civil libertarians were able to head such legislation off, but that’s become harder in the current fevered climate.
    — Michelle Goldberg, The Mercury News, 8 May 2024
  • What wasn’t reported: The parts of the civil grand jury report not accepted were addressed and context was provided as to why.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 31 July 2024
  • In another swing state, Wisconsin, fake electors admitted to their roles as part of civil settlements.
    — Wayne Schutsky, NPR, 25 Apr. 2024
  • The police department can then keep the car for months or even years until the State ultimately seeks ownership of it through civil forfeiture.
    — David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2024
  • The act effectively preempts civil lawsuits against gun manufacturers over harm caused by third parties using their products.
    — Vernal Coleman, ProPublica, 30 July 2024
  • With Shore transferred to the civil division and his pretrial motions department gone, the court’s downtown central division will now run like the east, south and north branches.
    — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2024
  • Everywhere there was civil order, for the arm of the Roman law was long.
    — WSJ, 22 Dec. 2023
  • The Married to the Mob streetwear founder has also since shared a lengthy statement about her decision to file a civil suit.
    — Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Violators would have faced civil penalties and a fine of up to $5,000 by the State Police.
    — CBS News, 13 Sep. 2023
  • There is not a full civil trial that is used, for example.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2023
  • That is a job for the civil justice system, the prosecutor said in a press release.
    — Morgan Womack, The Indianapolis Star, 10 July 2023
  • But Fred continued to take comfort in the civil suit verdict.
    — Hilary Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Apr. 2024
  • The former president faces more than a half-a-billion dollars in civil judgements against him in the past month alone.
    — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Former President Trump is expected to take the stand this week in the civil fraud trial in New York.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 5 Nov. 2023
  • Scheffler’s lawyer threatened to file a civil suit against the department.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 3 June 2024
  • In August 2021, a judge in the United States allowed a civil lawsuit brought by Giuffre to proceed.
    — Max Taylor, NBC News, 5 May 2023
  • The woman filed a civil lawsuit against McGregor in 2021.
    — Safid Deen, USA TODAY, 15 June 2023
  • And in these civil cases, what happens is that jurors are asked as a questionnaire.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 10 May 2023
  • Two, last December, the woman who made the accusation agreed to dismiss Araiza from the civil suit.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2024
  • In the United States, he was found liable in civil court for the rape of his former collaborator Haleigh Breest.
    — Valeria Verbaro, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Baldwin is still open to civil cases over the incident.
    — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 13 July 2024
  • The claim, which is required to be lodged before a civil lawsuit can proceed, was rejected by the county late last year.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2024
  • His death has been the subject of a civil suit and years of protests led by his sister, Tawanda Jones, for police accountability.
    — Ovetta Wiggins, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2023
  • The Waqf, an Islamic trust that runs civil matters at the mosque, said that 2,240 Jews had entered the compound for the holiday — the highest number recorded in five years.
    — Tia Goldenberg and Isaac Scharf, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2023
  • However, he was found liable for the deaths in a civil trial and ordered to pay the Brown and Goldman families $33.5 million.
    — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 13 June 2024
  • Prince Carl Gustaf swore an oath of allegiance before his grandfather and all the military and civil chiefs of Sweden.
    — Town & Country, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Chubb declined to underwrite the nearly $500 million appeal bond for Trump’s New York civil fraud case.
    — Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 16 May 2024
  • Bird’s lawsuit seeks to force TikTok to correct its statements, as well as financial civil penalties for the harm caused to Iowa consumers.
    — Hannah Fingerhut, Fortune, 18 Jan. 2024

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