Sentence examples for civilised progress from inspiring English sources
What a world that would be.Nikos TsafosPiraeus, GreeceSIR – You seem to equate economic and technological progress with civilised progress.
For anybody who follows such announcements regularly, the official and unofficial government media are always peppered with words such as "civilised", "progressive" and "development" – terms for something that is supposedly in a constant state of progress, or transition.
As the evening progresses, civilised behaviour breaks down, revealing that the parents are not so different from their children.
I also know that the Israelis are a decent and civilised people and therein lies the basis of progress.
Once upon a time, not so long ago, people believed in a wondrous time called the Enlightenment, a particularly triumphant period in the story of human progress from barbarism and superstition to civilised rationality.
Rather we see it as a club of civilised nations coming together to forge ahead for progress," said Mr Sankareh.
After forty years of intermittent civil war, many in Colombia are keen to move forward to a more civilised future, and see street children as irrelevant to the progress of mainstream society.
This value system builds in a pessimism about the current state of culture, a nostalgia for a more civilised past, a distrust of the innovations of the young, a rejection of the possibility of scientific and technological progress, and a paranoia about the incursion of science into the sacred territory of the humanities.
