Sentence examples for fire civil from inspiring English sources

Powerful unions stymie efforts to fire civil servants, making such jobs exceptionally stable and well protected.

He has also kept promises to freeze taxes, cut foreign aid and fire civil servants.

Cummings also proposes that ministers should be given powers to fire civil servants.

I'm not saying that it should be easier to fire civil servants, or that we should hand out bigger bonuses.

But after hours of emergency meetings — and under renewed pressure from Greece's foreign lenders to meet budget targets and fire civil servants — a cabinet reshuffle looked more likely than fresh elections.

PiS has also passed legislation enabling it to easily fire civil service officials and has introduced bills that would give the police and intelligence services increased surveillance powers on citizens – despite the fact Poland hardly faces any credible terrorist threat.

It has suffered frequently from fires, civil strife, and earthquakes.

"Our county knows earthquakes, fires, civil unrest at times and now train wrecks," he said.

In addition to jailing activists and banning Shiite-led opposition parties, Bahraini authorities fired civil servants and even professional athletes who participated in demonstrations.

But it has come under increasing scrutiny from a mixed assortment of critics -- environmental advocates, a former banker, a fired civil servant -- who have individually sought to piece together a record of the bank's decision-making.

Alongside imprisoning journalists and activists under a series of Orwellian "decrees", Buhari is best remembered for his "war against indiscipline," during which he executed drug traffickers, fired civil servants who turned up to work late and ordered soldiers to whip people who didn't form orderly queues at banks and bus stops.