It was the first attack directed at ordinary civilians, not public figures, since the end of Lebanon's civil war in 1990.

Even the ordinary civilians will decide we're not heroes anymore.

Three years ago, the company's only clients were the government and the military; last year 60 percent of sales were to ordinary civilians.

In the Soviet era, the gangs operating from their prison bases were no threat to ordinary civilians.

Along various routes throughout the city, ordinary Dutch civilians had blocked the roads.

Many (probably most) of the Palestinian prisoners are ordinary civilians who have been held without charge for years.

The fate awaiting ordinary civilians in both countries during the 1980s was decidedly uncertain.

A great many of the victims of the conflict were ordinary civilians.

But they weren't ordinary civilians, they were his boys!

Out the jetway, between two ordinary civilians who probably thought him a businessman, with his suit and tie.