How to Use civil service in a Sentence

civil service

noun

• 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
• 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
• As a civil service employee, Blasky will have avenues to appeal any decisions made.
  — Jennie Key, Cincinnati.com, 14 Sep. 2017
• For these employees, civil service can serve as a dynamic launchpad for future career success.
  — Nirit Cohen, Forbes, 24 Nov. 2024
• Philip Rycroft will replace Robbins as permanent secretary -- the most senior civil service post.
  — Tim Ross, Bloomberg.com, 18 Sep. 2017
• Namely, talented hackers don’t want to trade in plush positions and big bucks at cool technology companies to work for an average salary in the unglamorous world of the civil service.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2017
• This is very threatening for government employees and obviously offensive to the notion of a neutral civil service.
  — Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 1 Nov. 2024
• When the nation scraped up against the debt limit for three months in 2003, the government staved off default through the early redemption of bonds owned by a civil service retirement fund.
  — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• The lawyers stopped me, the civil service stopped me and the judges stopped me.
  — Luke McGee, CNN, 12 Sep. 2019
• His plans to shake up the civil service are well known.
  — The Economist, 21 Dec. 2019
• This is the worst time for careerism in the civil service.
  — David French, National Review, 9 Dec. 2017
• Members of the civil service are given days off to join the search.
  — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 22 Jan. 2020
• But the move takes place against a backdrop of Trumpian ire towards the civil service.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 22 Oct. 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
• Her daughter has quit a job in the civil service to join the family firm.
  — The Economist, 8 June 2019
• The Chinese point to their superb civil service and mighty navy.
  — Alan Greenspan, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2018
• Others fear that Mr Macron has let slip his campaign promise to trim the size of the civil service.
  — The Economist, 15 June 2019
• 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
• May’s response shows that she is controlled by the civil service.
  — Natasha Bach, Fortune, 9 July 2018
• Five, six of us took the [civil service] test together.
  — Gal Tziperman Lotan, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2019
• His public and civil service spanned more than 60 years.
  — John Whisler, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Sep. 2021
• Knight will return to his civil service rank of lieutenant.
  — Libor Jany, Star Tribune, 20 Oct. 2020
• 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
• The professionalism and integrity of the British civil service is the envy of the world.
  — Los Angeles Times Staff, latimes.com, 10 July 2019
• 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
• 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
• France’s mighty civil service employs 5.5m people, most with jobs for life.
  — The Economist, 15 June 2019
• The ban on gays and lesbians in the federal civil service was not reversed until 1975.
  — Time Staff, Time, 28 June 2018

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024