How to Use civil service in a Sentence

civil service

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Definition of civil servicenext
  • But some records become public through victims, court proceedings and civil service grievance hearings.
    — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 21 Apr. 2018
  • His case and cause have been championed by a broad and inclusive cross-section of leaders from both civil service and civil society.
    — Brandon Silver and Evelyne Abitbol, Time, 5 Apr. 2018
  • The city changed its civil service exam last year, and the exam is being digitized so it can be processed quicker, Rusovich said.
    — Emily Lane, NOLA.com, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Its senior employees are exempt from the ordinary restrictions on civil service pay.
    — Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Federal, state and local government employees are not covered by the act but are often protected by civil service rules.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Grimes was fired in June 2014 but the city's civil service commission reinstated him.
    — David Pitt, Fox News, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Grimes was fired in June 2014 but the city’s civil service commission reinstated him.
    — Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2018
  • In some instances, preference is shown for men in the civil service and among kindergarten and elementary school teachers to offset the large percentage of women in those fields, the report said.
    — Christopher Bodeen, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Apr. 2018
  • The two officers may now appeal their punishments to a civil service board, which will hold public proceedings and uphold, vacate or modify the punishments.
    — Richard Fausset, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2018
  • An ambitious overhaul of the treasured school-leaving baccalauréat exam is under way, as are negotiations over phasing out jobs-for-life in the civil service.
    — The Economist, 14 Apr. 2018
  • The Education Ministry is the country’s largest civil service employer.
    — Mujib Mashal and Najim Rahim, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2018
  • But Kennelly viewed himself as a reformer, turning government jobs ripe for patronage into civil service positions.
    — Ray Long, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2024
  • The lawyers stopped me, the civil service stopped me and the judges stopped me.
    — Luke McGee, CNN, 12 Sep. 2019
  • His plans to shake up the civil service are well known.
    — The Economist, 21 Dec. 2019
  • Members of the civil service are given days off to join the search.
    — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 22 Jan. 2020
  • But the move takes place against a backdrop of Trumpian ire towards the civil service.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 22 Oct. 2020
  • One of the best things government leaders can do is to open the door to them—by way of the civil service.
    — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, The Economist, 7 Dec. 2020
  • The council agreed to take the chief’s position out of civil service, and the state approved the move.
    — Shannon Dooling, ProPublica, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Her daughter has quit a job in the civil service to join the family firm.
    — The Economist, 8 June 2019
  • The Chinese point to their superb civil service and mighty navy.
    — Alan Greenspan, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2018
  • Others fear that Mr Macron has let slip his campaign promise to trim the size of the civil service.
    — The Economist, 15 June 2019
  • Salazar said at the time that part of the issue in filling open positions has to do with civil service rules.
    — Emilie Eaton, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Kelley grew up in a modest household on the South Side, the son of two civil service workers.
    — Diego Mendoza-Moyers, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Mar. 2022
  • May’s response shows that she is controlled by the civil service.
    — Natasha Bach, Fortune, 9 July 2018
  • Five, six of us took the [civil service] test together.
    — Gal Tziperman Lotan, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2019
  • His public and civil service spanned more than 60 years.
    — John Whisler, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Knight will return to his civil service rank of lieutenant.
    — Libor Jany, Star Tribune, 20 Oct. 2020
  • Yet while the civil service may not have the resources to consider a new package for rail, there may be one almost ready to go.
    — The Economist, 21 Mar. 2020
  • The professionalism and integrity of the British civil service is the envy of the world.
    — Los Angeles Times Staff, latimes.com, 10 July 2019
  • The recruiting campaign is tied to the current civil service testing period that started in December and was extended through Wednesday in advance of the March exam, the department said.
    — Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 7 Feb. 2024

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