Sentence examples for civil lines from inspiring English sources

The Civil Lines area is characterized by old one-story bungalows inhabited by those in the upper-income bracket.

East of the old town are such districts as the Drigh Cantonment, the Civil Lines (residential areas for senior civil service officers), and the Saddar Bazar.

Conversely, the Civil Lines (residential areas originally built by the British for senior officers) in the north and New Delhi in the south embody an element of relative openness, characterized by green grass, trees, and a sense of order.

A railway junction, it is divided into two parts by the rail lines: the old city to the east and Lahori village and the Civil Lines (mostly official residences) to the west.

They lived in a government hostel until her husband built a house in Civil Lines, then an affluent Old Delhi enclave of villas, where they brought up three daughters.

Broadly, public and semipublic land use was concentrated in the Central Secretariat area of New Delhi and in the Old Secretariat area in the Civil Lines, with subsidiary centres developing in the Indraprastha Estate (an office complex) in the east and in Ramakrishnapuram (an office-cum-residence complex) in the south.

Most notably, Walid Jumblatt, hereditary chieftain of the Druse, an offshoot of Islam, and a major ally of Mr. Hariri, has reached across the old civil war lines to befriend his former enemies on the Christian right.

Scroll down to see videos In a statement to a press conference today, Lieutenant-General Andrei Kartopolov said the Defence Ministry would like to know "why the military jet was flying along [the same civil aviation lines] at almost the same time and at the same level as a passenger plane".

We had a Civil War line.

The original Civil War line of Marvel comics asked a big, important question that hadn't been asked much since Alan Moore's Watchmen.

I respected John Kerry for rejecting Bill Clinton's advice to come out in support of a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage during the 2004 campaign, but Kerry was toeing the civil union line too.