Sentence examples for civic strength from inspiring English sources

Pakistan is weaker than India in every way — in military power, in economic resources, in political stability, in civic strength.

"That is a good result for a new member state," says Mr Hololei, "but without the Soviet legacy Estonia might be in the top five .Mr Bursik, the Czech environment minister, says ex-communist societies not only distrust their elites, they also lack confidence in their own civic strength.

The civic participation that these leaders speak to, and seek to inspire in others, has long been a part of America's civic strength.

Mr. Appiah said he prefers the analysis of Robert D. Putnam, a political scientist at Harvard who has tried to find empirical ways of studying what Mr. Sachs calls civil society -- levels of civic participation, the strength of social bonds and trust.

How is it that the state can promote the civic virtue or "strength of mind" [fortitudo] on which peace depends (5/2, 5/3)?

And Mr. Giuliani's reassuring calm in great crisis transformed him into a civic saint, his strengths magnified, his weaknesses forgotten.

Factors related to the social environment include civic vitality of the strength of social networks within a community, region, province or country; social stability and cohesive communities.

But the fact that it was not as binary as the yes-no question on the ballot paper suggested, the fact that most families in Scotland contained both yes voters and no voters, that many individuals themselves felt loyalties on both sides of the argument says something about the strength of our civic life and our democratic institutions.

For the strengths or weakness of civic republicanism to be fairly assessed, both confusions should be assiduously avoided.

The election, in November, of David Miller as Toronto's reforming mayor gave extra strength to a coalition of uppity civic leaders.

Bringing block colors to life across the face of gas stations and civic buildings, the Tennessee-based artist Mark Bradley-Shoup conveys both strength and isolation in the wide open spaces of his paintings.