Sentence examples for civilised response from inspiring English sources

A civilised response would be to find some way of piecing together a life so clearly devastated, especially for the sake of a family.

At his press conference Ai said he felt "very proud of Germany" for its "very civilised" response to the refugee crisis and urged the British government to do more to help.

This was a civilised and humane response, a mark of respect to the victims.

Less than a century ago, Attlee's The Social Worker identified three options for a civilised community's response to a citizen's needs.

And the "Journal" became an account, not of a peaceful and civilised life, but of response to intense pressure.

Can our response as a civilised society really be limited to moving people on from our doorsteps?

Yet isn't it exactly these kinds of gruelling cases, and the challenging issues they throw up, that remind us all that, while society can't stop horrific things happening, it can at least remain civilised, and direct the appropriate legal response?

It said: "The immediate reaction of the civilised world must be: collective courage in the face of such outrage; heightened vigilance and intelligence sharing; a targeted military response; and international solidarity with the French people".

These floods duly came in 1995 and 1996, with devastating effect.The government's response to the disaster, though dismal by any civilised standards, was pretty good when set against the norms of unreformed communist oligarchies.

The petition calls for "global civility" and says the production of cartoons of the Prophet Mohamed, as well as violence and murder in response to them are "an affront to the norms of civilised society".

The answer is 'no, not in a civilised society'".