Word Finder - civic

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Of, relating to, or belonging to a city, a citizen, or citizenship; municipal or civil.

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Thousands of people came to the Civic Center to show off their civic pride.

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Of or relating to the citizen, or of good citizenship and its rights and duties.

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civic duty

It received civic rights in 1260.

The law of our being, so revealed, involves in its turn civic or political duties.

The civic aristocracies did not all arise in the same way.

Claudius, the new emperor, restored the civic rights of the Alexandrian Jews and made Agrippa I.

First, their independence of philosophy and the arts being assured, though they continued to regard " civic excellence " as their aim, it was no longer necessary for them to make the assertion of its claims a principal element in their exposition.

The civic reaction was an example of the ephemeral nature of the public's interest.

In recent times the general prosperity of the city, which is on the ascendant, has brought about a revival of domestic and civic architecture.

When he returned, he resumed possession of his property and his civic status was unimpaired.

Hettstedt is mentioned as early as 1046; in 1220 it possessed a castle; and in 1380 it received civic privileges.

He was about to give an emphatic "no" to her question but then, in an inspirational moment of civic buck-passing, decided that talking to the law might be a pretty damn good idea.

Byzantine walls at Sparta, as elsewhere, fortify only ancient acropolis not civic center; place of refuge at time of attack.

Therefore, he said, " The very future of civic activism could depend on how well you do in this respect.

The mural crown from the crest of the Boro of Romsey, is a common civic emblem.

A brass ensemble will play a Civic Fanfare conducted by Peter Lacy.

The excuse for such civic frivolity is the monarch's birthday.

In terms of visual daring there's nothing else in the family hatchback segment to match the Civic's radical styling.

Adam Smith himself had a dash of civic humanism.

However, grand, modern designs are not the only reason for future civic pride in Thanet.

The family lies at the heart of my program for civic renewal.

Unfortunately the medals were not ready in time for the civic presentation and cardboard replicas had to be presented in lieu.

These form, naturally and necessarily, the objective expression of moral ideas, and it is in some civic or social whole that the moral ideal must finally take concrete shape.

But the Khazars proper were a civic commercial people, the founders of cities, remarkable for somewhat elaborate political institutions, for persistence and for good faith - all qualities foreign to the Hunnic character.

If you can find the Civic Center you can find the hotel.

Once you are there simply take a right turn to the Civic Center Plaza.

If you are coming from the airport, get off at the Civic Center BART station and walk up Hyde Street.

Schweidnitz, dating from about the 11th century, received civic rights in 1250.

Ezekiel's own moral code is that of the prophets, which insists on the practice of the fundamental civic virtues.

The podest marks an essentially transitional state in civic government, and his intervention paved the way for despotism.

Kossuth succeeded in granting them temporary emancipation, but the suppression of the War of Independence led to an era of royal autocracy which, while it advanced Jewish culture by enforcing the establishment of modern schools, retarded the obtaining of civic and political rights.

While in Russia this took the form of actual massacre, in Germany and Austria it assumed the shape of social and civic ostracism.

Equally distinguishedin natural science,philosophy and the administration of civic affairs, he takes a high place among the versatile savants of the ancient Greek world.

The centre of commercial and civic life of the older group of communities, as of the greater city of the classical age, was the Agora or market.

Dessau was probably founded by Albert the Bear; it had attained civic rights as early as 1213.

But experience had in the time of Epicurus shown the temporary and artificial character of the civic form of social life.

Music in Germany also receives a great stimulus from the existence, in almost every important town, of opera-houses partly supported by the sovereigns or by the civic authorities.

They communed together in a low voice for some time, till the burgomaster, succumbing to the influence of his potations, fumbled his way to his carriage with the assistance of some of his civic colleagues.

When Protagoras asserted " civic excellence " or " virtue " to be the end of educa-.

Excellent as a statement of the aim and method of Isocrates, and tolerable as a statement of those of Gorgias, these phrases are inexact if applied to Protagoras, who, making " civic virtue " his aim, regarded statesmanship and administration as parts of " civic virtue ", and consequently assigned to oratory no more than a subordinate place in his programme, while to the eristics - whose existence is attested not only by Plato, but also by Isocrates and Aristotle - and to Socrates - whom Grote himself accounts a sophist - the description is plainly and palpably inappropriate.

In 1109 Andernach received civic rights, passed in 1167 to the electors of Cologne, in 1253 joined the confederation of the Rhine cities and was the most southern member of the Hanseatic league.

From a very early period the little civic communities of Greece had sent forth numerous colonizing streams. At points so far asunder as the Tauric Chersonese, Cyrene and Massilia were found prosperous centres of Greek commercial energy; but the regions most thickly peopled by settlers of Greek descent were the western seaboard of Asia Minor, Sicily and the southern parts of the Italian peninsula.

Under the law of the 29th of June 1890 every Spaniard who is not debarred from his civil and civic rights by any legal incapacity, and has resided consecutively two years in his parish, becomes an elector on completing his twenty-fifth yearSoldiers and sailors in active service cannot vote.

It first appears in Roman history in the Second Punic War, and probably obtained full Roman civic rights from Julius Caesar.

The problem you'll have here is cutting one area or another too much could lead to marches, riots and general civic unrest.

The Civic Amenity sites will not accept trade, commercial, construction or demolition waste.

Carales was the only city with Roman civic rights in Sardinia in Pliny's time (when it received the privilege is unknown) and by far the most important place in the island; a Roman colony had been founded at Turris Libisonis (Porto Torres) and others, later on, at Usellis and Cornus.

Hence friction, at times, between the Reformers and civic authorities friendly to the Reformation; not as to whether there should be "discipline" (that was never doubted) but as to whether it should be ecclesiastical or municipal.

In the civic executive, as it existed to the time of Charles V., the deans of the two lower classes sat with the scabini and councillors.

The civic foundations which belong to this period, and which include the greater part of the massive ruins of Goulas and Anavlachos in the province of Mirabello and of Hyrtakina in the west, affect more or less precipitous sites and show a greater tendency to fortification.

At the very outset of his administration he therefore set himself to work, not only to improve the personnel of the government service, but by exhortations in his messages and public speeches to arouse a sense of civic responsibility both among office-holders and among all the citizens.

Founded in 1737 by the followers of Elias Eller, a religious enthusiast, Ronsdorf received civic rights in 1745.