Sentence examples for all of civilisation from inspiring English sources

"Something like civil engineering has basically shaped all of civilisation, all society that is around us".

Climate change is the biggest threat to all of civilisation our species has faced since the 80s.

By the time he achieved wealth and fame, Carnegie claimed to be an agnostic but nonetheless "came to believe he was one of Calvin's blessed, a sanctified trustee for all of civilisation".

[But] Lewis Hamilton as a black man from a poor neighbourhood romping through a filthy-rich and once-exclusive realm - because he got an even chance - is a social lesson for all of sport and all of civilisation".

In fact, not only do they do harm to themselves but they also do harm to all of civilisation: these are not women who can refine civilisation – these are women who will destroy it.

All this layer of civilisation comes to nothing at ground level.

He issued a statement in which, speaking on the behalf of the academy, he criticised Tolstoy for having "condemned all forms of civilisation... one feels dubious".

Can you imagine what it was like to have all semblance of civilisation stripped away before surrender, and now be faced with the very soldiers who were killing your families arriving and throwing you out of your house?" Around these intensely personal and emotional interactions, there is the horrific backdrop of a devastated nation.

Sen cuts through all the silly clash-of-civilisations rhetoric by arguing that human beings are many-sided and identity is chosen.

In this state, all the trappings of civilisation (and especially femininity) are to be loathed and rejected.

In the mid-18th-century, "it is to Scotland that we look," said Voltaire, "for all our ideas of civilisation".