How can depravity have reached such depths; how can our civic community not have noticed and acted in time?

But they also help us reach across the borders between groups and to establish a civic community embracing sometimes profoundly different groups.

As the civic community gradually began to organize, they were no longer willing to automatically grant every new arrival the same rights as citizens.

He renders social life more human both in the family and the civic community, through improvement of customs and institutions.

She also became an increasing presence in the civic community, emerging as one of the country's most high-profile animals rights activists.