1.   Pressure from civic groups convinced him that the redrafting was necessary.

2.   An advisor from an HIV civic group also testified.

3.   Another member of the civic group, Wayne A. Budd, group president of Bell Atlantic, was at a second adjacent table.

4.   Architects, planners, citywide civic groups and West Side community groups objected both to its size and design.

5.   A collection of civic groups plan to present a plan in September for a number of uses.

6.   A coalition of local apartment owners and civic groups has already said that it wants to see a master plan for the entire nine acres.

7.   A few civic groups whose mailings are identified by Rock and Roll Hall of Fame stickers have tenuous links to rock and roll music.

8.   A few weeks ago, a civic group organized an anti-violence demonstration downtown, promising a million marchers.

9.   Across the nation, street gangs have often struggled to recast themselves as community-minded civic groups.

10.   African-American civic groups interpreted the quick resumption of construction as a lack of respect for their slave ancestry.