During the campaign, Harrison had promised to enforce the civil service law that protected the job rights of government workers.

VOA: special.2010.05.27

For the most part Deuteronomy doesn't really contain much in the way of civil law. It tends to focus on the moral-religious prescriptions kind of the apodictic law in Israel--and the few civil laws that are there tend to be reworked in line with Deuteronomy's humanity.

在申命记中的大部分中并不饱含民法的内容,它倾向于关注宗教道德的规定,某种以色列人的绝对的律法，而民法的存在,倾向于和申命记中的人道主义保持一致。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

But this raises, I think, the central or a central point about Socratic citizenship or Socrates' view of citizenship, this kind of principled disobedience to the law, something like Thoreau's model of civil disobedience.

但这产生了，一个中心的观点,关于苏格拉底式的公民社会,或是苏格拉底对公民社会的看法，这种原则性的反抗法律，有点像梭罗的,公民反抗模式。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Twenty years ago this week, President George H.W.Bush signed a civil rights law that Americans call the ADA.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

Pfizer agreed to pay another billion for violations of a civil law, the False Claims Act.

VOA: special.2009.09.11

And it set up a civil service committee to enforce the new law.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

Mohamed Hussein Nur, who heads the Somali parliament's secretariat, says lawmakers in the overwhelmingly Muslim country are facing the challenge of developing a civil law consistent with Islamic Sharia law.

VOA: standard.2009.04.05

President Obama has recently faced additional criticism after the State Department denied funding to some organizations with projects supporting civil society, rule of law and human rights monitoring efforts in Iran.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28