noun

• Society considered as a community of citizens linked by common interests and collective activity.

  ‘the corrosive impact of fear on politics and civil society’

  More example sentences

  • ‘they make important contributions to civil society’
  • ‘a flourishing civil society indifferent to race, gender, or economic category’
  • ‘Defining art's place in civil society is a no less thorny issue today.’
  • ‘Hamlet's lucky rescue by pirates opens up moral and legal perspectives beyond sovereignty and civil society.’
  • ‘Those men are beginning the process of reintegration into civil society.’
  • ‘One step forward for civil society may now mean two steps back.’
  • ‘Civil society springs up in tyranny's wake.’
  • ‘State control is total, leaving no room for civil society to grow.’
  • ‘The fact is that the only institution in the world today that is more powerful than the American government, is American civil society.’
  • ‘They want responsible, public-minded citizens but refuse to give civil society a chance.’
  • ‘Peru's civil society had been reborn.’
  • ‘There are very legitimate reasons to believe it might almost be impossible to get a civil society in place very fast.’
  • ‘I'm asking record companies to realize that they have a responsibility to a civil society.’
  • ‘There are some encouraging signs that a civil society is emerging especially in the area of environmental protection.’
  • ‘I do believe that the government is - at least verbally - committed in getting this civil society in place.’
  • ‘Europe, viciously divided against itself for centuries, has knit together into a democratic and civil society.’
  • ‘Winston Churchill once said that reservists were "twice the citizen" because of their dual commitments to civil society and the military.’
  • ‘Any civil society has be culturally adaptable.’
  • ‘What those who are afraid of civil society breaking down don't realize is that civil society has already broken down!’
  • ‘Can they adopt some of the practices and institutions of civil society?’
  • ‘Building a civil society here is going to take a while.’
  • ‘Weak civil society leads to high crime, low productivity and all kinds of social pathology.’