Sentence examples for civ from inspiring English sources

To the "politically correct" crowd, Mr. Bass's stipulation that his money be used for a new Western Civ course seemed redundant and retrograde.

A Western Civ professor had once dedicated several classes to the painting, and it has stuck with me.

Mr. Meier's team at Firaxis Games clearly took seriously the idea of making Civilization more appealing and accessible to new players, but they glossed over and basically eliminated too many elements of previous Civ designs.

And on the other, there is what we might call the "western civ" view, where Marx is treated, along with figures such as Nietzsche and Freud, as the author of an endlessly fascinating body of writing, writing that may be studied or simply enjoyed but that does not issue in action any more than does Mann's The Magic Mountain or Eliot's The Waste Land.

The once controversial "Western Civ" course isn't even mentioned.

Suddenly the colonial mindset I had studied briefly in college as part of a required "Western Civ" course was cartoonishly real.

"You can't have a major shift in a civ-mil structure without having the civilian side take a step back and look at everything," said a senior State Department official, using the jargon for a civilian-military campaign.

He also noted that additional Canadians will go to Kandahar in March to support the civ-mil planning activity underway for governance and development in the wake of the upcoming military operations in Kandahar.

important story @davidjenders- rebel take oil fields near #DeiralZour, delivering oil desperate civs http://t.co/oLMyn6Qy — James W. Foley (@jfoleyjourno) 22 Nov 12 Mr. Foley was one of 21 journalists abducted in Syria last year, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, which calls Syria the most dangerous country in the world for journalists.

("Could I put down 'an end to oppression' instead of 'civil liberties' on your exam?" one student asked the Western-civ professor. The professor said yes, he could).

Suppose for a moment that I am an undergrad at a League XI university, class of 2120, paying a heavily subsidized $1.2 million a year in tuition, who has been asked to submit an essay on race in pop culture in America during the office of the first non-white President for my Am-Civ class.