Sentence examples for cause of civilisation from inspiring English sources
May it not also be that the cause of civilisation itself will be defended by the skill and devotion of a few thousand airmen?
"We [Portugal and Rhodesia] stand together in a common cause because of civilisation".
What had caused this outbreak of civilisation?
The second is those who still deem the law recognising everyone as equal as indicative of the downfall of civilisation – or the cause of floods.
The values of the Enlightenment - individual conscience, rational scepticism, intellectual curiosity - allow us to dissent from our rulers when they co-opt civilisation to their cause; those whom Bush terms the enemies of civilisation would not allow us such independence.
It is hard not to think that they represent a far more likely cause of global disruption on a civilisation-ending scale than either supervolcanoes or asteroids.
The root cause of the Saxons' exodus was starvation of the modern benefits of civilisation.
Regardless of our veneer of civilisation, when someone does that to us, it causes instinctive physical responses: adrenaline, nervousness... back down or lash out.
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.
