We could use a little more civic courage and civic resolve.

Actions that require civic courage vary by culture.

He received the František Kriegel prize for civic courage in 2006.

Your will, your civic courage, your moral strength have proved to be the most effective weapon.

Mr. Schroder embarked this week on a 10-day tour of the east, urging "civic courage against rightist extremism."

"It showed a lack of civic courage."

Professor Alberto Neri, chief hematologist, medal of civic courage.

Not for nothing is "Zivilcourage," or civic courage, one of the most important words of the modern German lexicon.

"Just to name a problem was an act of civic courage."

And yet the attacks which Roosevelt made, while they did not involve death, called for the highest kind of civic courage and fortitude.