Sentence examples for boundaries of civilization from inspiring English sources

By pushing back the boundaries of civilization and enlarging the sphere of wildness, Digges has created a habitat in which her son can flourish.

Such wars were as historically necessary as they were difficult to contain: "The warfare that has extended the boundaries of civilization at the expense of barbarism and savagery has been for centuries one of the most potent factors in the progress of humanity.

'They bring freedom.' Such wars were as historically necessary as they were difficult to contain: 'The warfare that has extended the boundaries of civilization at the expense of barbarism and savagery has been for centuries one of the most potent factors in the progress of humanity.' This quotation comes from Paul Kramer's "The Water Cure" in next week's issue of The New Yorker.

Nature writers have long looked at the spiritual relation of man and place, but as the boundaries of nature and civilization blur, the genre has increasingly emphasized, often in a scolding way, how little remains of the natural world.

In his review of James Wood's "How Fiction Works" (Aug. 17), Walter Kirn at last divulges his operative credo: "to escape the constrictions of civilization, redraw its boundaries, decalcify its customs... by dancing on its debris".

They say that this aim is ill served by an overzealous application of laws designed to keep objects from ancient civilizations within the boundaries of the modern-day states where they are found today.

Economic independence liberated Jung intellectually, encouraging him to test the boundaries of early-20th-century European psychiatry and to expound on the consciousness not only of individuals but of civilization itself.

Even though the Byzantine intellectual firmly believed that civilization ended with the boundaries of his world, he opened it to the barbarian, provided that the latter (with his kin) would accept baptism and render loyalty to the emperor.

Whether it is in the creative space with art and literature or in the economic world with startups and new products, entrepreneurs (very widely defined) bring progress to our civilization by pushing the boundaries of what is possible.

We was out of civilization.

The rivers of civilization.