Sentence examples for civilisations live from inspiring English sources

Civilisations live and die by their founding myths.

Cities change and mutate, they transform together with the civilisations living in them.

In the future, she predicted aliens would help civilisation live underwater by 2130 and that there would be a war on Mars in 3005.

The civilisation I live in thinks less and less in terms of raw myth, I think, and the idea of many other writers in the Canongate series has been to assimilate the myths into the form of novels, or modern stories, retell the tales as though the people had personalities and psychologies.

In fact, it found that Aboriginal civilisations have lived in Australia for so long that they've been able to biologically adapt to its harsh environment, with adaptations varying between tribes who lived in different climates.

Before Christianity took hold in the third century CE, Roman religion was dominated by a pantheon of Gods and complex mythologies such as Romulus and Remus, Horatius at the Bridge and the stories of the Sabine Women as well as earlier legends from the Etruscans which was an older civilisation that lived in Italy.

But a grounding in one's culture, in all the contributions black people have made to the civilisation we now live in, goes much further than our current obsession with role models.

Imagine that: an entire civilisation spawned from (or live on?) reality TV, with a gene pool so narrow that somehow even touching yourself would count as incest.

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

Being at the junction of the Eurasian, North American and African tectonic plates, the Azores are a geological hotspot: when seen from its highest point, each island is a Clanger-land of chimneys and craters where you could believe entire civilisations of sprites and elves live among the fat, dappled cows.

Civilisations go through tunnels.