The largest civil works project in American history is underway to build a fortified levee system.
Don Riley, director of civil works for the Army Corps of Engineers.
The Civil Works Administration employed more than four million men and women at jobs from building and repairing roads and bridges, parks, playgrounds and public buildings to creating art.
At Stormont a cross-departmental group of civil servants works on implementing the treaty.
The new book "Why Civil Resistance Works: The strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict, " written by Erica Chenoweth and Maria J.
We should begin a series of programs, as we did with Germany after World War II, to systematically bring young, up-and-coming Russians from various walks of life (business, academia, the professions, etc.) to the U.S. for long visits so they can see firsthand how a democratic, civil society works.
Mr Skelton spent 20 years in counter terrorism research as a civil servant and now works to help protect soldiers in Afghanistan.
Margie Orr, who is black and works for a civil rights organization, says she doesn't think Obama will have to be more careful about how he talks about race and his agenda, because he didn't have to during his campaign.
The organisation works with governments and civil society in a practical way to promote security and co-operation.
Indeed, for readers whose Civil War bibliography runs to standard works by Bruce Catton and James McPherson with an audio-visual assist from Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" Mr. Levine's book offers fresh insights into the complex reality of what most Northerners thought of as the solid South and the slow evolution of the Union crusade against slavery.
The Office for Civil Society, part of the Cabinet Office, works across government departments to translate the Big Society agenda into practical policies.
"Anti-Semitism has no place in football or society in general, " said the Board of Deputies of British Jews, which works to promote and defend the religious and civil liberties of British Jewry.
Critics of Home Office plans to sanction a dramatic extension of government access to private communications records mainly civil liberties campaigners and Mr Blunkett's own son, who works in the computer industry had won the argument, Mr Blunkett concluded.
In its split decision, the panel found that Proposition 8 "works a meaningful harm to gays and lesbians" by denying their right to civil marriage.
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