It is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to politeness and courtesy in manners and speech. For example: "The young couple showed civility for each other, even during their disagreements."
And the two governments do talk to one another with some degree of civility — for example, about reconstruction in Haiti.
"We are fighting for civility, for the bubble-up of talk and views that has been the beauty of the Communion".
Mr. Milosevic appears contemptuous of the judges and prosecutors, reserving his interest and civility for those senior politicians, diplomats and generals from the West who have testified.
However, thanks to anti-hip-hop posturing and shallow-minded generalizations, Macklemore is being used as an example of ground-breaking "civility" for rap.
And you do not expect a country to be well just overnight, or over a year or so, not a country that has been devastated and deprived of civility for 42 years".
"To fail to be civil to someone — to treat them harshly, rudely or condescendingly — is not only to be guilty of bad manners," he wrote in a 2006 article, "The Value of Civility?" for the journal Urban Studies.
Also facing this challenge are public school teachers who attempt to inculcate in students certain moral virtues such as civility, respect for differences and concern for the poor" ([ 29]: 363).
"Canterbury's Law" exploits not only the cultural fetish for images of female authority figures behaving with no use for civility but also for crime dramas in which young people are ritually victimized.
Before I took office, I issued a Civility Accord for the City of Akron as a framework for respectful public discourse in our city.
He advocated this ideal in his many public speeches in China, and he established a Campus Civility Award for public service at Jiao Tong University.
Forget courtesy, civility, concern for others around you; those old-fashioned reasons are blown away by the new info-age necessity for constant contact.
