Sentence examples for civilised state from inspiring English sources

"Mesopotamia is not a civilised state," Bell wrote to her father on December 18 1920.

How can any civilised state sanction a system that allows no scope for the correction of injustice?

After seven decades of trying to set up Utopia, Russia's only aim in the 1990s was to become a normal, civilised state.

If we want to live in a civilised state that is our servant, not our master, we need to get the systems right.

"This move would suggest that Russia under Putin is not a civilised state," says Katz.

Russia's foreign ministry said it was "hard to believe that such statements can be made by the defence minister of a civilised state".

I do believe Ukraine will withstand it all and will maintain her independence and that the Ukrainian people will hold on to their desire to live in a civilised state cleared of a corrupt elite and corrupt judiciary.

That is why civilised states no longer execute, torture or mutilate their citizens, whatever the possible justification.

"It is time for Georgia to join the united front of civilised states to remove the threat of international terrorism," it said.

More than one Commonwealth member state hosted training facilities for black communist guerrillas, he said, which threatened all "civilised states in Africa".

Wilberforce's actions led the essayist William Hazlitt to condemn him as one "who preaches vital Christianity to untutored savages, and tolerates its worst abuses in civilised states".