Ibrahim,a civil society activist for the Somali Institute for Research and Development, says that if al-Shabab carried out the attack for which he says there is little doubt the group's denial could be due to the shocking nature of Thursday's death toll.

VOA: standard.2009.12.05

How do we get out of it? This is of course for much of the book. What do we do to get out of this state of nature to enter ? a condition of civil society and civilized life?

我们怎么摆脱它呢,所要讲的一个重要问题,我们要怎样才能摆脱自然状态,从而进入文明社会的状态，过上文明的生活呢？

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People who have never known of civil society; people who have never known of a world with polis, well, of course,they would do something stupid like that.

希腊人认为不知道文明社会的人,也不会知道城邦的世界,所以才会做出如此愚蠢的行为

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She says donors are pumping in a lot of resources and civil society groups are working on access to education.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

Civil society groups are calling on President John Atta-Mills' government to draw up a comprehensive biofuels policy to reconcile these issues.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

His plans for an interim government have been rejected by a coalition of political parties,trade unions, and civil society groups.

VOA: standard.2009.12.07

The role of civil society groups took a major step forward following ASEAN meetings earlier this year.

VOA: standard.2009.10.09

"The donors are pumping in a lot of resources." "Civil society is working on access but the truth is 75 percent of the children fail.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

Jean Mamboundou says opposition parties have failed to heed civil society's call for a single candidate because many believe they can win the election outright on their own.

VOA: standard.2009.08.28

and they did it,". He says reforms undertaken by communist dictatorships never lead to systemic change without an active opposition creating what he calls a "civil society movement."

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

Weber said the report recommends fighting poverty and using U.S.political and economic leverage with authoritarian governments to promote democratic reforms and create a middle class and a civil society.

VOA: standard.2009.04.24

The government says it will now work with a new umbrella organization called the Civil Society Coalition on Land to push ahead on land rights issues including biofuels, environmental management, and sanitation.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

Lake is one of 200 scholars, government officials, civil society workers and development partners in Dakar this week for a conference organized by the UN Girls' Education Initiative, an international partnership aimed at achieving gender equality and universal primary school education by 2015.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

"Civil Society plays a key role in helping to communicate the need for mothers to bring their children in early for vaccines to complete the vaccination series to make sure that non-governmental organizations deliver and offer vaccines not only one day a week necessarily but on a regular basis,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.28