Figures like Martin Luther and John Calvin recognized marriage as a civil matter, a worldly affair, and not under the aegis of the church.

像马丁·路德和约翰·加尔文等人，认为婚姻是民事问题，一个俗世的事务，不需要在教会的庇护下结婚。

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Tuesday, White House press secretary Dana Perino said the issue between Venezuela and ExxonMobil is a civil matter, referring to other pending lawsuits.

星期二，白宫发言人佩里诺在谈到其它没有解决的官司时说，委内瑞拉和埃克森美孚石油公司之间的问题属于民事纠纷。

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A hearing on the matter was scheduled for this afternoon at the 160th Civil District Court.

今天下午还将在第160号民事地方法庭就此事举行听证会。

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We can have a civil science, because politics is a matter of human making, of human doing, of human goings on.

我们能够拥有民间科学，因为政治关系到人类的产生，人类的生存，人类的延续。

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Violating the act is a civil matter with possible remedies including reinstatement -- "which I'm not interested in, " Iglesias said -- or back pay.

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As Kennedy explained, removal of an unauthorized migrant is a civil matter where even if the person is out of status, federal officials have wide discretion to determine whether deportation makes sense.

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Mr. Castro said he had been cooperating with federal and state investigators after he was secretly indicted in the Bronx in 2009 on perjury charges in an unrelated civil matter.

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