How to Use civil service in a Sentence

civil service

noun

• 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
• 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
• His public and civil service spanned more than 60 years.
  — John Whisler, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Sep. 2021
• For the past year, the college senior has been studying day and night for civil service exam, even on weekends.
  — Min Joo Kim, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2022
• Walter, meanwhile, secure in the civil service, retains a central role in the weapons buildup.
  — Andrew Cockburn, Harper’s Magazine , 20 Jan. 2021
• Sharp agreed to help and discussed the matter with Simon Case, the head of the British civil service and cabinet secretary.
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Jan. 2023
• Williams switched his focus from civil service to building dreams.
  — Arkansas Online, 13 Dec. 2022
• The story follows a widow retiring from his civil service job and grieving the loss of his wife.
  — Liza Foreman, Variety, 17 Nov. 2022
• Tens of thousands of troops and civil service workers in San Antonio, would not get paid — though many would keep working.
  — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Sep. 2021
• Since Hong Kong returned to Chinese control in 1997, its four top leaders have come from either the business world or the city’s civil service.
  — New York Times, 6 Apr. 2022
• Coy could also ask a court or the civil service commission to intervene, Steel said.
  — Peter Nickeas, CNN, 29 Dec. 2020
• The career military man was soon bored and saw civil service as the logical next career move.
  — Kevin Leonard, baltimoresun.com, 28 May 2021
• Government spending was rolled back and hiring for civil service jobs slowed to a trickle.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 13 May 2023
• But after Trump’s reign of terror and error, the upper levels of the civil service have been hollowed out in key departments.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 17 Dec. 2020
• The Scottish government is in the process of rolling out a four-day workweek trial for its thousands of civil service employees.
  — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 19 Dec. 2023
• The president, whose term lasts for six years, also signs off on key civil service appointments.
  — Philip Heijmans, Bloomberg.com, 8 June 2023
• After banning women from employment in the civil service and academia, large numbers of women have joined the ranks of street beggars.
  — Time, 19 Jan. 2023
• Women hold a fifth of civil service jobs, and a third of seats in the Afghan parliament, under a 2004 post-Taliban constitution.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 2 Sep. 2021
• Gianna said yes, and the couple were married at a civil service not long before Gianna gave birth to their first child.
  — Francesca Street, CNN, 26 Apr. 2021
• Contributing to the crisis is the city’s archaic civil service process that takes an average of 255 days to hire one worker.
  — Mallory Moench, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Dec. 2022
• One of his chief campaign pledges had been to bring more African Americans into the local government and civil service.
  — Emily Langer, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2022
• Later, back in favor with Moi, he was appointed as the director of Kenya’s civil service.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2022
• But as Amélie de Montchalin, the minister in charge of transformation and civil service, pointed out on Twitter, this fine is the exception, not the rule.
  — Annabelle Timsit, Quartz, 16 Dec. 2020
• Next on the police department’s radar is adding three more new officers from the same June civil service exam that yielded the recent hires.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 7 Sep. 2023
• That next and last step would be a hearing before Oakland’s civil service board or in front of a third-party arbitrator.
  — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2021
• But there was a big difference back then: The new president’s team could depend on the best and the brightest of the federal civil service to guide them in their early days in office.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 17 Dec. 2020
• In honor of his contributions to the Chinese civil service, a statue of him was erected in Shanghai.
  — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 6 Apr. 2021
• Lee represents a break with the past as the first chief executive with a career in the police force instead of a civil service or business background.
  — Washington Post, 8 May 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024