Sentence examples for pattern of civil from inspiring English sources

The pattern of civil strife has evolved worldwide over the past sixty years.

The first presidential election, in 1825, was disputed and began a pattern of civil war and bad faith.

Now, the city and the United States Justice Department are negotiating ways to prevent the federal government from suing the Police Department for a pattern of civil rights violations.

Following the general pattern of civil government, the expanding church created ecclesiastical provinces, each headed by a metropolitan, who was assisted by his suffragan bishops, each of whom headed a diocese within the province.

WASHINGTON — In a blistering condemnation of the second-largest police force in the United States, the Justice Department is accusing the Puerto Rico Police Department of a "profound" and "longstanding" pattern of civil rights violations and other illegal practices that have left it "broken in a number of critical and fundamental respects".

The Ferguson Police Department had previously been the focus of two DOJ investigations, which found a pattern of civil rights violations within its police and court system.

Meanwhile, the United States Department of Justice is determining whether a pattern of civil-rights abuses was spawned from Police Headquarters here on Liberty Street.

Under the law, federal prosecutors can sue municipalities to force court-ordered structural changes in how a police department operates if they can prove it engages in "a pattern or practice" of civil rights violations.

Parks, for his part, has promised he will carry out the decree, which is aimed at rooting out corruption and ending what the Justice Department has called a "pattern or practice" of civil rights infringements.

Ms. White's inquiry, like a similar one begun by Brooklyn federal prosecutors in 1997 after the station house torture of Abner Louima, was brought under the 1994 law that allows prosecutors to investigate whether a police department engages in a "pattern or practice" of civil rights violations.

Under the same "color of law" statute, if an entire police department shows a "pattern and practice" of civil rights violations, the Department of Justice's Special Litigation Section may seek civil remedies and a "consent decree" establishing a plan of reform for the local agency and its officers.