Sentence examples for civil capacities from inspiring English sources
Jefferson wrote, and Madison worked to pass, the Commonwealth of Virginia's Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom, which held that "all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities".
Drafted by Thomas Jefferson, the statute proclaims that 'all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.' The First Amendment prohibits Government from establishing religion, and it protects the free exercise of every faith.
The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom which he drafted disestablished the Anglican Church as Virginia's state church and declared that citizens are free to believe as they will, and that this "shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities".
A civil servant is first and foremost a servant of the crown working in a civil capacity.
In his civil capacity as President, he has not the faintest shadow of authority to decree the emancipation of a single slave, either as an "act of justice" or for any other purpose whatever.
Because of that role, about two-thirds of the cases before the D.C. Circuit involve the federal government in some civil capacity, a far greater percentage than are before other appeals courts in the system.
He moved easily between a proposal to reform the World Bank in order to promote development and environmental sustainability to a proposal for a European Rapid Reaction Force with new configurations of military, police and civil capacity to wage the peace-keeping, reconstruction and counter-insurgencies of the 21st century, alongside America.
Inclusion criteria were: 1) Heroin users failing to quit drug use more than once; 2) age ≥ 20 years; and 3) full civil capacity.
Relationships with NGOs are often driven by annual plans rather than by longer-term partnership arrangements and concerns, which at times jeopardizes opportunities to build longer-term civil society capacities, which is of particular importance in Timor-Leste.
Rennie and Behets have argued that in settings characterized by extreme poverty, weak health care and civil society capacities, gender inequality and high levels of stigma against HIV – AIDS patients, the Opt – Out HIV screening approach might divert from its initial human rights motivations of offering universal access to HIV – AIDS management [ 40].
