Sentence examples for civilised war from inspiring English sources
Sport is uniquely human – it is civilised war, an acceptable arena to bare one's teeth; for an artist it is headily refreshing that there is no nuance to winning or losing.
Controversially, the Nuremberg judges ruled that the systemic killing of German Jews and others had been against the "customary" law of civilised countries before the war, which continued to apply during it.
He called for a new compact among civilised peoples to "eradicate war at its most fundamental source - the corruption of young minds by violent ideology".
In 2012, the American Freedom Defence Initiative unrolled another campaign saying: "In any war between the civilised man and the savage, support the civilised man.
In June 1913 it described the recent entente cordiale between Britain and France as "the expression of tendencies which are slowly but surely making war between the civilised communities of the world an impossibility .In this section The artistic solution So many troubles The year before the sky fell in Full of hot air Sensible chap The struggle for the Horn of Africa ReprintsWe got that wrong.
Where The Waste Land shocks and astounds, "Little Gidding" proffers an impeccably civilised transcendence of the horrors of war.
The conviction and sentencing of the two children provoked a reaction that a civilised society usually reserves for hardened war criminals.
It's vile, this other world that war exposes beneath the civilised veneer: the artist can hold up a lantern, but all it illuminates is the firing squad.
Within hours of the terrorist attacks on the United States a year ago, Gerhard Schröder, Germany's chancellor, was among the first to pledge his "unlimited solidarity", describing the event as "a declaration of war against the entire civilised world".
Even war has limits in a civilised world".
In the 20th century, when universal suffrage became widespread, a period of retirement after work was seen as a mark of a civilised social democracy.After the second world war pension provision increased markedly, but the number of elderly people was still quite small (see chart).
