Sentence examples for civilians from inspiring English sources

It's clearly something that is not winnable … you're going to have more and more civilians who are caught in the middle of this, and that has got to be our focus right now.

7 February: Britain and the US recall their ambassadors to Damascus in protest at the Assad regime's "murderous" behaviour towards its own civilians.

Poroshenko joined in the chorus of one song, pumping his fist and shouting, "Glory to Ukraine!" The singers drowned out protesters who had gathered across the street, including one in a Russian scarf, accusing the Ukrainian president of ignoring atrocities against civilians in rebel-held cities.

Amnesty says that half the city's population have been displaced by "a campaign of indiscriminate air bombardment by government forces, which have also reduced entire areas to rubble and killed and maimed countless civilians".

Spence told Radio Ulster that the UVF had been "engaged in murder, attempted murder of civilians, attempted murder of police officers.

While we bomb Isis, Assad spares it and prefers to barrel-bomb Syrian civilians in the pockets of territory still controlled by the rebels fighting his rule.

"The plans involved the giving of no warnings and were designed to kill as many innocent civilians as possible," said Mr Lawson.

Smoke rose high in the air and emergency services battled with each other and with civilians to get to the survivors.

Ukraine's acting interior minister, Arsen Avakhov, said on his official Facebook page on Monday that a warrant had been issued for the arrest of Yanukovych and several other officials for the "mass killing of civilians".

Arming troops with almost no real training and sending them into extremely sensitive situations where they may be shot at with weapons from within crowds, largely made up of angry but unarmed civilians, sounds like a recipe for disaster.

And don't be tempted to follow a couple of "civilians", just for a laugh: when Kanye West did that to a student from Coventry, the influx of fan and press attention nearly drove the poor sod crazy.