A civilization constitutes a durable social system of complementary traits.
"The nearest human beings were a hundred and twenty-five miles away, and the civilization of which they constituted the very fringe — a civilization remote from nature, artificial, dominated by the exploitation of man by man — seemed unreal, unbelievable," Marshall wrote.
*Even the most cursory visit to any major metropolitan museum or reading of any major literary canon would show that rather than damaging human civilization, religious cultures have constituted it.
They lead to thinking about what constitutes civilization, and what isn't civilizing.
The New Yorker, February 14 , 2000P. 77 Briefly Noted review of "Scar Vegas" (Harcourt; $22) by Tom Paine... [I]n this debut collection of stories...Paine deftly carries the reader to the point where accepted notions about what constitutes civilization suddenly seem absurd.
It is the brutality that constitutes civilization itself.
Many of the core concepts and even specific works and images which, for us, constitute civilization, came to be in this shimmering 173-year interval.
Huntington, in a controversial article published in 1993 and a book, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, published in 1996, used cultural theory to propose that the emerging international system constituted a "clash of civilizations".
Historically the Gangetic Plain has constituted the heartland of Hindustan and its successive civilizations.
World War II: Unlike any war fought since, this one constituted a truly mortal threat to the future of Western civilization.
