Sentence examples for civilisation who from inspiring English sources

To the alarm of older Muslim leaders, the UOIF and other tough-talking factions swept the board in last year's elections to local branches of the new French Council for the Muslim Faith.The presidency of this council remains in the cautious hands of Dalil Boubakeur, rector of the Paris mosque; he is an admirer of French civilisation who laments the "contest of extremism" among his fellow Muslims.

His father might be Sir Kenneth of Civilisation, who knew the last thing about Mantegna and instructed us on such subjects for BBC television, but the ancestors were trade - Paisley cotton-thread spinners, upon whose factories the whole beautiful edifice rested.

These developments made them enormously rich and enabled the castellated lifestyle 100 years later of Kenneth Clark Lord Clarkark of Civilisation" – who 40 years ago talked more about beauty, and in such a beautiful voice, than these days would be considered decent.

Alwash is amazed at how the many civilisations who have lived in and around the marshes for centuries developed their farming.

But for starters, being honest about who we are is important if we want to have an extra-terrestrial dialogue lasting centuries, says Douglas Vakoch, director of interstellar message composition at Seti. (Otherwise, intelligent civilisations who've decoded our radio and TV signals might smell a rat).

"I genuinely believe that if Trump wins and gets the nuclear codes there is an excellent possibility it will lead to the end of civilisation," Tony Schwartz, who ghostwrote Trump's famed The Art of the Deal, told the New Yorker, before the election.

Where Huntington predicted divisions in which the west would be only one of several competing civilisations, Fukuyama (who has changed his mind since) saw the collapse of communism as marking the triumph of western and especially American ideas, "the end of history".

New towns offered a modernist future an "essay in civilisation", as Lord Reith, who helped design the plans, put it.

They are quite literally defending the values of civilisation from those who have abandoned them.

"You have all crash-landed in a desert where you are searching for a lost civilisation," explains Gareth, who sports a purple Thirsty Meeples "Game Guru" T-shirt.

Frontline anti-terror police naturally feel they are involved in an existential campaign to save western civilisation from people who may as well be zombies.