Sentence examples for mark of civil from inspiring English sources

"It is a mark of civil society".

After the war, Robert E. Lee said, "I think it wisest not to keep open the sores of war, but to follow the example of those nations who endeavored to obliterate the marks of civil strife, and to commit to oblivion the feelings it engendered".

There was irony in his dying on the eve of this great gathering, the high-water mark of the civil rights struggle of the 1950's and 60's.

In retrospect, "Roots" — which arrived on television a dozen years after the legislative high-water mark of the civil rights movement, in the more immediate wake of Richard Nixon's Southern strategy and the first "Rocky" movie — may have succeeded so widely with white and black audiences because it simultaneously opened and closed the book on America's racial history.

On the weekend of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom — often regarded as the high-water mark of the civil-rights movement — the labor activist A. Philip Randolph gave a speech at the National Press Club, an all-male organization that, during events, confined women in attendance to the balcony.

In fact, this was an incredibly turbulent period marked by fear of civil war in Ireland, huge strikes, protests by Suffragettes etc.

William F. Buckley Jr. opined that far from criticizing Bush, "the proper call would have been to instruct, belittle, counsel and if necessary attack those who are willing to translate Bush's appearance at Bob Jones into a mark of indifference to civil rights".

Professor Benny Tai at the University of Hong Kong, also a key leader and co-founder of Occupy Central, declared that the movement already marked a brand new "era of civil disobedience" for Hong Kong, and this was just a beginning.

Richard D. Emery is a prominent New York lawyer who has made his mark in the area of civil liberties.

Without adding to his anguish, I wanted his take on one question: has Syria passed a mark, into a state of civil war?

War leaves all manner of scars, and the dusty towns in eastern Sierra Leone still bear the marks of a decade of civil strife.