Sentence examples for civil establishment from inspiring English sources

To be sure, Burke wanted a more humane imperialism, a kinder colonialism, and behind his words is the continuing prejudice of a landed interest against a commercial one: this is what happens when merchants, rather than a military and civil establishment under the control of a better class, are allowed to rule colonies.

By the late Ming dynasty, there were central government officials delegated to two or more provinces as supreme commanders and viceroys, a system which reined in the power and influence of the military by the civil establishment.

The most recognized organization in the civil rights establishment, the association was founded in 1909.

Du Bois, Henry Moscowitz, Mary White Ovington, Oswald G. Villiard, William E. Walling and Ida B. Wells-Barnett to fight the lynchings of blacks, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is the most recognized organization in the civil rights establishment.

That plan was shelved after the civil rights establishment cried foul.

The civil rights establishment understandably sees him as one of its own.

Loury seemed to relish his chosen role as a thorn in the side of the civil rights establishment.

The much-demonized "civil rights establishment" is daily accused, as the current ugly phrase has it, of crying Selma.

Nor has any figure from the civil rights establishment come out to endorse Cedric the Entertainer's right to free speech.

After Mecca, Malcolm began reaching out to the civil rights establishment and came to recognize, in Mr. Marable's words, that "blacks indeed could achieve representation and even power under America's constitutional system".

When, in 1995, he offered some rather equivocal praise for Proposition 209, the resolution banning affirmative action in California, the civil rights establishment came down on him like a ton of bricks, and Lieberman reeled in horror.