How to Use the civil service in a Sentence

the civil service

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Definition of the civil servicenext
  • One of Hitler’s first steps was to take over the civil service, purging it of non-Nazis.
    — Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 2 Apr. 2024
  • He’s become one of the supporters of Netanyahu who hate the system and hate the civil service.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2023
  • In one such low moment, he was ignited by the dream of admission to the civil service.
    — Hari Kumar Atul Loke, New York Times, 28 June 2023
  • Walter, meanwhile, secure in the civil service, retains a central role in the weapons buildup.
    — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 20 Jan. 2021
  • Cummings wanted to overhaul the civil service and Britain’s planning laws.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Sloss went on to join the civil service as a teacher and later, in the British air force, became a noncommissioned officer.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 May 2024
  • Moreover, these groups have allies in the civil service, the judiciary, and the military.
    — Renad Mansour, Foreign Affairs, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Most people who work for the federal government are in what’s called the classified service or the civil service.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 18 July 2023
  • These are Americans who have come into the civil service from a range of backgrounds and a range of experiences and geographies.
    — How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 8 June 2023
  • At the same time, the people who stuck it out, the professionals, the Foreign Service officers and the civil service officials, they should be rewarded as well because that was not an easy time.
    — Hillary Rodham Clinton, Foreign Affairs, 23 Mar. 2021
  • Agrawal has taken the civil service exam four times without success.
    — Tara Subramaniam, CNN, 27 May 2023
  • The gulf between the civil service in charge of China’s foreign affairs and the Chinese military can be wide, and the administration’s response targets both.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Her guests were statisticians and economists in the civil service, the sort of people who write public reports on out-of-pocket medical expenses.
    — Alex Traub, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2023
  • But Democrats never succeeded in enacting legislation to strengthen protections for the civil service system as a matter of law.
    — Jonathan Swan, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Should the government reject the court’s ruling, major Israeli institutions — among them the military, police, the civil service, and lower courts — will in turn, need to decide whether to obey the country’s executive or its judicial branch.
    — Aaron Boxerman, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2023
  • San Diego lawyer Robert Ottilie, a longtime community activist and former member of the civil service commission, noted that expanding the volunteer panel would require a change to the city charter and therefore a public vote.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Also planned is legislation enabling the government to appoint the judiciary directly and politicize the civil service.
    — Dan Perry, CNN, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Due-process procedures for the civil service are designed to protect the public by ensuring it is served by a nonpartisan, nonpolitical bureaucracy.
    — Joe Davidson, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Because federal employees were already covered by the civil service retirement system.
    — Tom Margenau, Dallas News, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Three members of the civil service commission appointed by Gloria voted last month to fire personnel director Douglas Edwards without providing a public explanation.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2023
  • Its ultranationalist and ultra-Orthodox members don’t agree on everything, but they are united on one objective: weakening Israel’s judiciary and strengthening government control over both the courts and the civil service.
    — Eliav Lieblich, Foreign Affairs, 8 Feb. 2023

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