Sentence examples for lay civil from inspiring English sources

One of those images, 11 seconds of ants crawling on a crucifix, drew an outraged denunciation from the Catholic League, a lay civil rights organization that receives no church financing.

The party supplied much of the brains and elbow grease for such lay civil rights organizations as the National Negro Congress as well as for the biracial vanguard of the labor movement, the Congress of Industrial Organizations.

The No campaign has been spearheaded by a number of Catholic lay civil society groups, with the institutional Catholic Church playing a relatively low-key role in the background.

But their real talent lay in civil warfare.

"They also think the strategy the government has come up with to lay off civil servants is too vague".

Until now, the government has not been able to lay off civil servants, whose employment rights are in effect constitutionally guaranteed.

But he also recognized that it was the only route that lay between civil war and the mass exodus of the moneyed, educated class of white people who were integral to the economy.

A parliamentary vote on the budget cuts that had been expected this week is now being postponed until the end of the month, as some members of Mr. Samaras's three-party coalition government dig in against proposals to lay off civil servants.

So far, the responsibility lies with civil servants.

His best-known poem is probably a two-line epitaph: Here lies a civil servant.

So it could very well be that the future of local climate change mitigation action lies with civil society, their energy cooperatives, and accompanying local business partners.