Sentence examples for amount of civilisation from inspiring English sources

But a certain amount of civilisation depends on intelligent smattering".

But a certain amount of civilisation depends on intelligent smattering".~ Frank Kermode, as quoted in "Celebrated critic Frank Kermode dies aged 90" (Guardian).

Baja is an amazing place for adventure with just the right amount of civilisation, and it's so accessible from San Diego or LA.

In this novel Henty tells us that "the intelligence of an average negro is about equal to that of a European child of ten years old", but they can be significantly improved by living among white men where "their imitative faculties enable them to attain a considerable amount of civilisation".

By then we had put behind us the austere beauty of the wild and apparently limitless moors, whose glimpses of civilisation amounted to woebegone sheep and the occasional stone wall, and began shadowing the river Esk.

But the review, conducted by the conservative education commentator Kevin Donnelly and the public administration professor Ken Wiltshire, also resulted in recommendations aimed at increasing the amount of content about western civilisation.

To look up on a truly dark night, away from the light pollution of civilisation, is to be struck by the sheer amount of stuff that makes up creation.

In the early 1990s he described himself as an "advocate of civilisation, definer of civilisation, teacher of the rules of civilisation…leader (possibly) of the civilising forces".

Surely, the end of civilisation.

CRADLE of civilisation.

Research libraries preserve the record of civilisation.