Sentence examples for civilised process from inspiring English sources

"They think our referendum was such a gift, such a civilised process," he said.

While the reverse process also holds - civilised behaviour begets civilised behaviour - many of the things organisations do in the name of management encourage rather than dampen asshole tendencies.

Today the procurement process is more civilised, but schools often complain about a lack of bodies.

Another passenger, Brian Tait from Dover, said earlier the process had been "civilised" but added: "Communication has been bad, we have not heard when we will get our car back, it's all been word of mouth".

But any halfway civilised morality involves interfering with evolutionary processes.

The process is polite but remorseless, and sitting in court it occurred to me that there could not be a more civilised antidote to Murdoch's influence in the UK.

We are a civilised, sophisticated nation that takes the political process seriously.

But in the process they are diminishing our so-called civilised society and creating a climate of hatred, which could backfire.

He has to accept that there needs to be a civilised Ryder Cup in America before the forgetting, and forgiving, process can begin, because there are a lot of bad memories out there.

The Descent claimed that in primitive tribes "the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated" in contrast to "civilised men" who "do our utmost to check the process of elimination; we build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed, and the sick; we institute poor-laws; and our medical men exert their utmost skill to save the life of every one to the last moment" [ 28].

But in the process he finds himself freshly infuriated by the civilised hypocrisy of his father Patrick Delafield, a stockbroker of the old school.