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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of civilianize.

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Examples

  • So how can Pakistan's government be "civilianized"?

    Pakistan’s Self-Defeating Army 2009

  • Than Shwe is concerned about mounting opposition across the world to the elections, a process which he wants to provide some measure of legitimacy to the "civilianized" government that emerges after the polls.

    Asia Times Online 2010

  • I'm looking for a civilianized semi-automatic sub - "machine" gun along the lines of the GSG-5 except in a 9mm caliber or above.

    Semi-automatic sub-machine guns 2009

  • I'm looking for a civilianized semi-automatic sub - "machine" gun along the lines of the GSG-5 except in a 9mm caliber or above.

    Semi-automatic sub-machine guns 2009

  • So, I think that this is an effort by their part to make sure that the military will be in a civilianized position to control the society for the indefinite future.

    After Seven Years, Aung San Suu Kyi Is Free 2010

  • So Burma post election, on the surface, the organization of the military dictatorship will look different and it will be more civilianized on the surface.

    Burmese Generals Look to Election 2010

  • Mr. STEINBERG: This is no real - I think the military - and I have been told that years and years ago - they have every have had every intention of keeping central power in the society through a civilianized form or directly.

    After Seven Years, Aung San Suu Kyi Is Free 2010

  • And the new ph government coming in in 2011 will be through a civilianized administration, but the military will still be in central control.

    After Seven Years, Aung San Suu Kyi Is Free 2010

  • "I'm a military man," says Col. Eduardo Herrera Hassan of the newly civilianized Public Force.

    'Taking Out The Cancer' 2008

  • Have they civilianized, in that term that has been used by the military?

    CNN Transcript Apr 9, 2003 2003

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