Sentence examples for civilisation with from inspiring English sources

"Can you really poison an entire civilisation with lead?

Nor did he want to blow up western civilisation with a stick of conceptual dynamite.

Ms Kjaersgaard accused Danish Muslims of living at a "lower stage of civilisation, with their own primitive and cruel customs".

Kursk was "probably the greatest clash in the history of human civilisation, with 2m soldiers locked in a deadly embrace.

Herrin is a leading Byzantinist, and she presents eastern Rome as a civilisation, with its strengths and defects.

Here too the invaders found a complex urban civilisation with its own majestic art and architecture … and brutally crushed it.

The main thesis is of two conflicting civilisations, with the West exemplifying economic decline, international recklessness and moral depravity.

Worldwide, rivers have a common association with industry – being the focus of settlement and development since the earliest civilisations with channel engineering a common practice.

Archaeologists have correlated the development of human civilisations with the evolution of what is now regarded as the modern species of bread wheat.

Tamil Nadu is home to one of the world's last surviving classical civilisations, with 3,800 years of continuous cultural history.

The fact that we have 7 days of the week can be traced to the Babylonian and Jewish civilisations, with the first documented reference dating to 600BC.