Sentence examples for civil enough from inspiring English sources

We plan to make the new discussion areas civil enough to encourage authors, experts and celebrities to come in for open Web chats.

Hucknall looks tired but he's civil enough, ordering about four weeks' worth of vegetarian food for me, and talks about his background.

The fact is that the two communities, though relations between them are civil enough, live their lives largely apart, attending different schools and universities, speaking different languages and working for different employers.

In theory, operations like this represent the advantage of moving U.S. soldiers into neighborhoods like Ghazaliya, where they can build relationships and glean intelligence, and that night's census was civil enough.

The GT's sport-tuned suspension has larger antiroll bars and stiffer springs and shock absorbers; combined with the low-profile tires it can make the ride a little crisp, but still civil enough for the young backsides that will find their way into this car.

Are we civil enough not to tear each other apart because we don't agree?

Indeed, men have dressed to fight the Civil War enough times over to make Lincoln shoot himself.

"If a government can't raise taxes, they can't run a proper government or pay their civil servants enough to keep them honest," said Jeremy Pope, executive director of Transparency International, an organization that tracks government corruption.

Some reformist groups also object, arguing that the changes do not strengthen civil institutions enough, and raise the scope for corruption by lessening the time required between a public official's leaving office and his standing in some election.The referendum will probably be won.

For one thing, the inverse relationship between wages and corruption does not always hold; El Salvador, for example, pays its bureaucrats far more than the average factory worker but still ranks towards the bottom of the corruption index.Moreover, paying civil servants enough to persuade them to reject bribes and kickbacks is itself costly.

There weren't nearly enough civil servants as it was – God stand up for civil servants – and we'd need far more of them after we'd left the EU than we did now.