How to Use civil service in a Sentence

civil service

noun

• Knight will return to his civil service rank of lieutenant.
  — Libor Jany, Star Tribune, 20 Oct. 2020
• But the move takes place against a backdrop of Trumpian ire towards the civil service.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 22 Oct. 2020
• Adoption of the fire fighters’ and police officers’ civil service law.
  — Roy Kent, Houston Chronicle, 11 Oct. 2020
• The Communist Party for decades allowed the former British colony to be steered by its proxies in the civil service and the business elite.
  — Chris Buckley, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2020
• Mushinsky appealed those findings to the civil service board, which Edwin Bergeron formerly chaired as vice president.
  — Wesley Muller | Louisiana Illuminator, NOLA.com, 1 Oct. 2020
• Much of my photographic life has been spent dealing with people in government, from the military to civil service, and around the world in the Foreign Service.
  — David Burnett, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 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
• 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
• Once these dams of civil service protection have been breached, others may not be able to resist the urge to follow suit.
  — TIME, 14 May 2024
• 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
• Doctors, psychologists, nurses and vets may also be repurposed in military and civil service roles.
  — Sophie Tanno, CNN, 9 June 2024
• Two jail employees were fired, but later reinstated and put on leave because civil service procedures weren’t followed in their termination.
  — Noah Alcala Bach and, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 June 2024

Last Updated: 15 Aug 2024