How to Use civil service in a Sentence

civil service

noun
  • The lawyers stopped me, the civil service stopped me and the judges stopped me.
    — Luke McGee, CNN, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Members of the civil service are given days off to join the search.
    — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 22 Jan. 2020
  • The question of where civil rights and civil service go from here?
    — Natalie McMillan, CBS News, 19 Jan. 2026
  • May’s response shows that she is controlled by the civil service.
    — Natasha Bach, Fortune, 9 July 2018
  • Williams switched his focus from civil service to building dreams.
    — Arkansas Online, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Her daughter has quit a job in the civil service to join the family firm.
    — The Economist, 8 June 2019
  • But the move takes place against a backdrop of Trumpian ire towards the civil service.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 22 Oct. 2020
  • The Chinese point to their superb civil service and mighty navy.
    — Alan Greenspan, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2018
  • 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 workers who lost their jobs had no civil service protections.
    — Anna Maria Barry-Jester, ProPublica, 9 Feb. 2025
  • Football is not a civil service job, and no business is going to hire a guy who’s suing it.
    — Willie Brown, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Others fear that Mr Macron has let slip his campaign promise to trim the size of the civil service.
    — The Economist, 15 June 2019
  • The city is expected to administer a civil service test this fall to name the new police chief.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 31 July 2020
  • The story follows a widow retiring from his civil service job and grieving the loss of his wife.
    — Liza Foreman, Variety, 17 Nov. 2022
  • But the narrative of a lethargic civil service in bad need of work discipline was set in motion.
    — Charlie Tyson, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Walter, meanwhile, secure in the civil service, retains a central role in the weapons buildup.
    — Andrew Cockburn, Harper’s Magazine , 20 Jan. 2021
  • Elected leaders need to be able to impose the will of their constituents on the military and the civil service.
    — Yascha Mounk, Slate Magazine, 6 Sep. 2017
  • That didn’t stop Nunes from deriding them as being part of a smear campaign from within the civil service.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • But in practice, the modern civil service already functions as a one-sided spoils system.
    — James Broughel, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
  • But that is true for every member of the government and Britain’s entire civil service.
    — Henry Porter, The Hive, 6 Dec. 2017
  • The union went on strike — the first time a civil service union walked off the job — in November 2023.
    — William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 2 July 2026
  • The state reported the rate of disabled workers in civil service had increased to 8% this June.
    — William Melhado, Sacramento Bee, 6 Jan. 2025
  • From there, the military and civil service adopted similar tools to rank large pools of applicants.
    — Big Think, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Many have questions about pay for military personnel and civil service workers.
    — Caren Bohan, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025

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