Sentence examples for civilisation to from inspiring English sources

If he had, he would doubtless have seen through the ostensible civilisation to the barbarism beneath.

It's farming – the mass production of food via an organised system – that allowed civilisation to flourish.

We have reduced a civilisation to decoration, "chinoiserie" as it was called in the 18th century.

The slide from civilisation to barbarism is shorter than we might like to imagine.

It seemed the height of civilisation to be allowed that luxury.

Unlike New York, Istanbul has 3,000 years of civilisation to inspire herself with.

If we can't physically move our civilisation to the distant stars, perhaps we can exchange Snapchats?

His grandson Hulagu was invoked by General Angus Maude when he "liberated" Baghdad in 1917 and brought "civilisation" to Mesopotamia.

("The Internet allows our civilisation to take a quantum leap forward", he said, betraying his customary originality).

Delft and seventeenth-century Holland weren't socialist, statist or inefficient - they allowed their civilisation to express itself publicly.

"The mainstream Indian press has made it sound like the festival is part of bringing civilisation to Kashmir.