civil authority

基本解释

USNORTHCOM is responsible for defending the homeland and providing defense support to civil authorities.
USNORTHCOM负责国土防御，并为民间人士提供防御支持。
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Civil authorities in Guangxi said rainstorms have forced 66473 people to evacuate and caused direct economic losses of RMB665m.
广西民政厅称，暴雨已迫使广西66473人紧急疏散，直接经济损失达6.65亿元人民币。
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Major Peter Lerner, the spokesman for Israel's military and civil authorities in the Palestinian territories says Hamas militants who seized power in Gaza last year are to blame for the situation.
巴勒斯坦领土上的以色列军方和民政当局发言人莱纳少校说，去年取得加沙控制权的哈马斯激进分子才应该为目前的状况负责。

The statement was one of the clearest yet from the Vatican that it wants local bishops to cooperate with civil authorities in prosecuting priests who abused children.
"We have heard victims ask for the release of all the records that they have in their files, because not all of them have been made available to civil authorities."
The lawyers,the opposition, the civil society is going to be in the streets, although they [i.e.,authorities in Pakistan have started mass arrests.

He was finally released in August this year, six months after being handed over to the civil authorities.
ECONOMIST: The media and NGOs are the king's latest targets