Sentence examples for a civilizational from inspiring English sources

Bannon often described China as a "civilizational challenge".

Marco Rubio took a different tack, however, in declaring "a civilizational conflict with radical Islam".

They are ways to insist that you have joined a civilizational struggle, without raising the prospect of actual war.

Campbell sees the massacre as a dark chapter in the late stages of a civilizational struggle, from oppression to liberation.

Both Mr. Breivik and Al Qaeda see themselves as engaged in a civilizational war between Islam and the West that extends back to the Crusades.

But that left a rhetorical problem: What does a civilizational struggle look like, anyway, if it doesn't involve a ground war?

This larger scale gord building activity, from the mid-8th century on, was a manifestation of the emergence of tribal organisms, a new civilizational quality, representing rather efficient proto-political organizations and social structures on a new level.

A great, civilizational drama looms, but what we see on screen is a lumbering, flat-footed fancy-dress melodrama.

The crazy part is that barring a total civilizational meltdown, the prospect of digital telepathy will eventually stop being a prospect we can only attempt to imagine and start being a reality that some of us live.

His Ottoman counterparts felt a similar civilizational crisis.

You may not have meant to, but you have triggered a huge civilizational war -- the war within Islam.