Sentence examples for saw civil from inspiring English sources

Many onlookers saw civil war as inevitable, followed by incompetent and intolerant black rule.The story, as is now well known, has turned out very differently, thanks in large part to Mr Mandela.

Before the fall of Mubarak, Ashraf saw civil aviation as elitist, an industry where the pilots were lauded but where engineers such as himself were given low salaries and little respect.

But whereas Giddens saw civil society as one leg of a three-legged stool, resting in essential balance with government and the economy, the suspicion of many in the voluntary sector was – and remains – that Hilton saw big society as usurping government.

Still, the new street-stop numbers got a fresh round of criticism after a week that saw civil libertarians and prospective mayoral candidates debating the crime-suppression value of such stops and blaming the tactics for tearing at the fabric of city life, particularly in minority neighborhoods, during a period of historically low violence.

They have seen civil war.

In Bosnia, you'd have seen civil war".

Instead, the plan sees civil servants replacing many private contractors.

(Hence the tendency to see civil rights legislation as just another unjustified expansion of federal power).

It is a mistake to see civil liberties as a mono-directional, irrevocable process.

Many of these people may come to see civil unions as a compassionate compromise.

The way I read Andrew, he, like me, sees civil freedoms (of thought, conscience, the press, etc).