adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a civic duty (= done because you live in a place )
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It is your civic duty to vote.
a civic reception (= one given by the authorities of a city )
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The plaque was unveiled during a civic reception given at Glasgow City Chambers.
civic centre
civic pride (= pride in your town or city )
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The museum is a vital source of civic pride.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
building
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No expense was spared to produce a station worthy to stand beside the other civic buildings .
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They were built for and of the town and were surrounded, up to their walls, by houses and civic buildings .
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Stations come in all sizes from cottage-size right through to major civic buildings .
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About £16m is needed to tackle repairs and maintenance on many civic buildings constructed in the 1960s and 70s.
centre
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Tickets are £3.50 and available from the civic centre , the Mill House Leisure Centre or the door.
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The grand Victorian and Edwardian architecture of this period still gives the civic centre of Birmingham its character.
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Tickets can be bought on board or from the civic centre .
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They raided the main city bakery to dispense scones and cakes to workers at the civic centre .
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Unfortunately, it forgot to plan for the needed new council chamber within that civic centre .
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The winners of the Sid Chaplin short story competition named after the Shildon-born writer were announced at the town's civic centre .
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The station was consciously designed to be a civic centre with a wide range of rooms including a theatre.
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Applicants who must be aged 1824, should contact Haylli Bellerby at the civic centre .
culture
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Some fear that it will lead to a breakdown of the civic culture that Almond and Verba so admired in Britain.
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More important, in the civic culture participant political orientations combine with and do not replace subject and parochial political orientations.
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In the 1970s and early 1980s, a number of observers began to chart a decline in the civic culture .
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It is as an answer to this ambivalence that the civic culture recommends itself.
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Thus, substantive comparison of these countries and the generalizations about civic culture must be treated with suspicion.
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For the civic culture is not a modern culture, but one that combines modernity with tradition.
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The civic culture may be weakened but it has not collapsed.
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The civic culture is present in the form of aspiration, and the democratic infrastructure is still far from being attained.
dignitary
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The mayor and civic dignitaries met us in a blaze of colour at Bow Bridge with the usual greetings and pleasantries.
duty
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Well, that's my civic duty done.
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You have to work, perform your civic duty .
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If banks choose not to be tempted in this way then an appeal to their civic duty is misplaced.
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A piece of impudence on my part, really, but I have a strong sense of civic duty .
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And the couple are now taking an early-break break from their civic duties to patch up their differences.
engagement
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His work on social capital and civic engagement has been heavily drawn upon by Francis Fukuyama and others.
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Being a first-class citizen is about that kind of civic engagement .
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First, the postwar boom in college enrollments raised levels of civic engagement , offsetting the generational trends.
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Evidence for the decline of social capital and civic engagement comes from a number of independent sources.
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Indeed, the overall declines in civic engagement are somewhat greater among housewives than among employed women.
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Even more striking is the evidence that among workers, longer hours are linked to more civic engagement .
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So hard work does not prevent civic engagement .
group
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Pressure from civic groups convinced him that the redrafting was necessary.
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Most of these civic groups are Conservative-dominated.
institution
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It is a social and religious organization, running an array of civic institutions .
leader
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In addition, Grills said, no civic leaders were asked about their faith.
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Delighted civic leaders said the decision would boost the city's bid to host the 2000 Olympic Games.
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Some cherish hopes of being business and civic leaders themselves.
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But many Nashville residents are unconvinced, leaving government and civic leaders worried that the once-done Oilers deal actually could collapse.
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He joined civic leaders and medical experts from Mid Glamorgan council, who are helping handicapped children from the Gulf kingdom.
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But he had let it become so obvious that the civic leaders were complaining.
life
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Yet, increasingly, vicarious experience via film, video and music is a substitute for civic life and community.
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He contributed to the political and civic life of the area in a variety of ways.
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Life , civic life included, is not as simple as the purveying of fashionable ideas suggests.
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They seek, correctly, to revitalize our atrophied sense of civic life but we need to go much further.
pride
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This was well illustrated by station-building and civic pride outside the capital.
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There was no sense of responsibility, civic pride , or love of work.
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Meredith made a speech about the civic pride the city took in its repertory company, and the importance of the drama.
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It would be an opportunity to foster civic pride and to identify talented youngsters.
reception
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At a civic reception that evening Chapman announced that the club would not be satisfied until it had won the League Championship.
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Today, her achievement was recognised with a civic reception .
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A council spokesman said this occurred when the last civic reception was held for the club and caused great concern.
responsibility
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Financial responsibility for giving support would be delegated to a local level in order to rekindle civic responsibility.
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In catering to the largest possible audience, producers and reporters are led astray from their social and civic responsibilities .
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Suffice that this was a textbook case of civic responsibility .
society
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Often there are other organisations, such as the Landmark Trust or civic societies , capable of coming to the rescue.
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A civic society should also be a free one.
virtue
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If we're selling it, we'd better point out that it's a starting-point for civic virtue .
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Is the kind of thinking required for scientific experimentation the same kind required for civic virtue ?
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Finally, the citizen must, if true to his quality, be possessed of some civic virtue .
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The problem here is how can social cohesion and civic virtue be promoted?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Civic leaders cannot agree on what is best for the city.
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An important civic function is taking place in the city hall this evening.
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Harlow Council has always been generous with civic funding for music and the arts.
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It is your civic duty to act as a juror.
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John Golden was an important civic and business leader.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Employers are committed to the civic challenge of moving people from welfare to work.
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For the civic culture is not a modern culture, but one that combines modernity with tradition.
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Is civic assertiveness now so strong that citizens would actually be prepared to break laws which they considered to be unjust?
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It is a social and religious organization, running an array of civic institutions.
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No expense was spared to produce a station worthy to stand beside the other civic buildings.
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Some fear that it will lead to a breakdown of the civic culture that Almond and Verba so admired in Britain.
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They will be divided into teams and assigned civic roles.