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    civilian


    1. Look how well he had handled the situation! Of course the boy was nothing but a civilian, and there really wasn’t much of a situation to handle, but Ackers was too relieved to think about any of these things


    2. clear that this was a civilian vehicle, although probably army surplus


    3. equivalent of a civilian police force, there were several lessons of


    4. It’s also called the Civilian Aerospace Test Center


    5. I actually went to the registration wearing my gun and holster around my civilian clothes with blue jeans


    6. It probably had a lot to do with the captain's friendship with Ava Bancour, the civilian Lite Colonel


    7. civilian watched on portable TV’s as the


    8. He was dressed in normal civilian clothes, a black top and olive trousers


    9. So you see civilian, I have a stake in any job I’m told to perform for the government


    10. It still shared that egg-like shape, much the same as any human civilian vehicle … but that was the point, although he knew B’tari vessels were able to change their shape

    11. As the highest profile representatives of Earth, they were targets for the anger amongst the civilian population in the Jovian system


    12. “A civilian? I guess it makes sense to appoint a negotiator to talk to us, but I’m not in the mood for negotiating


    13. They, and two civilian space-liners making up a fleet of five vessels, had left Earth at the same time as Vanguard but a combination of Vanguard’s greatly superior engine technology and Captain Novikov’s impatience had allowed Vanguard to arrive at their destination many hours ahead the rest of its fleet


    14. ” I was wearing an old cricket sweater and had plimsolls on my feet so she obviously thought that I was a civilian


    15. “Oh Dr Sullivan is not a civilian he is army and all his patients are soldiers


    16. Noble women did not go around kissing men of the lower classes however, they may dance with a merchant or even a lower-class civilian, though decency forbid them to cross any more lines than this


    17. Though there could never be enough TIAR immersion pods (even with the latest design of nano-construction bots) for every civilian within the country, take-up had been a surprising disappointment, no more than eight per cent


    18. Luckily she had a sense of humour and they escaped the logical consequences by dressing back into civvies (civilian dress) immediately and buying her a box of chocolates


    19. During our College days, when lucky enough to receive a weekend pass we dressed in civilian clothes before leaving the College


    20. In civilian language these bullets were called dum dum rounds and are outlawed by the Geneva Convention except for use against savages…or so I heard

    21. For civilian use I would recommend a soft lead bullet or manufactured hollow points, which tend to create massive damage


    22. They were still dressed in heavy serge, the old regulation equipment, and many had only thin civilian boots, which heat and salt water rendered useless


    23. It was his turn on watch, and he stood at the base of the dock, talking to a man dressed in bland civilian clothing


    24. “We have a civilian helicopter leaving the Isle of Wight


    25. No British Forces would dare shoot at an innocent civilian this way


    26. " Poor civilian would then be flustered and begin to brake or swerve or drive faster


    27. Their military ranks were restored after a silly (read long haired liberal) experiment to turn them into a civilian Police Service


    28. It was a unique experience because the terrorists rarely operated in uniform but shrewdly in civilian clothes


    29. The terrorists planted bombs at civilian and military targets to bring the war home and to strike terror


    30. This procedure must remain wary, however, of arbitrary or capricious designs whenever, for example, civilian populations are (unintentionally) killed or property destroyed (collateral damage) that oftentimes occurs during times of war yet are properly understood (or should be) as contingencies of war whose (untimely) deaths or destruction otherwise fail to meet the standards of (purposeful) criminal intent

    31. His follow-up book "Survival Course" is even better in my view dealing with his troubles when he returned to civilian life


    32. Secondly, the Rhodesians also placed a signalling device in a small civilian FM radio which after being stolen by the terrorists as they robbed a store gave a signal to home on to


    33. Insofar as atrocities go: The terrorists shot down two civilian airliners with their Strela missiles and killed the survivors in cold blood afterwards! It caused shock and outrage and happened with flight RH 825 on 3 September 1978 and flight RH 827 on 12 February 1979


    34. And then finally as other innocent civilian aircraft wondered what is taking place:


    35. I have advised Lusaka to hold their civilian traffic for another ten minutes


    36. I have a civilian aircraft coming in from the north to land in about one-zero minutes


    37. You can let that civilian traffic land—there’s no hassle on that


    38. The shooting down of a civilian airliner is a nightmare scenario in the War on Terrorism and these weapons are certainly able to bring modern aircraft down


    39. Strangely enough, the landmine threat was primarily against the civilian population who had no access to the specialist vehicles which the Security Forces had


    40. There were no IED's as such though the bombing of civilian targets in towns and cities took place

    41. As in Rhodesia the terrorists wore civilian clothing underneath their uniforms to change into when needed


    42. They would operate in civilian clothes with unmarked vehicles as quasi policemen / intelligence gatherers and assassins though of course they did not see it as assassination


    43. The planting of bombs were not the IED type aimed at military convoys but simply high explosives inside a restaurant or other civilian targets of opportunity


    44. Thereafter it had civilian control


    45. They pointed out that any normal bomb exploding in a civilian target like a restaurant or bar usually brought much condemnation from the media


    46. Otis had earlier commanded US troops during campaigns against the Lakota in the aftermath of the Battle of Little Bighorn, and more than a few historians see similarities in the tactics used against and the treatment of the enemy and civilian populations in both wars


    47. But McKinley failed to hold anyone in his administration responsible, either civilian or military


    48. Churchill ordered bombing civilian targets in 1942 as a way to placate the Soviets, to say Britain was contributing to the war effort without directly invading Europe yet


    49. Nine of the ten cities with the highest civilian death tolls during World War II were victims of Allied bombing, not Axis


    50. What: The targeting of the civilian populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the atomic bomb














































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    Synonyms for "civilian"

    civilian citizen non-combatant secular

    "civilian" definitions

    a nonmilitary citizen


    associated with civil life or performed by persons who are not active members of the military