Sentence examples for civilizational from inspiring English sources
'civilizational' is a correct and usable word in written English
It is often used to refer to a civilization or the process of civilizing. For example, you might say, "The rise of civilizational moments throughout history has shaped many of our cultural values today."
adjective
Pertaining to or arising from civilization
- There are various civilizational factors at work.
As such, Teotihuacán constituted a second grand civilizational climax or "unification" (400 600 ce).
Here are not only ecclesiastical but civilizational issues that the next generation may choose to revisit in the light of the moral teaching proposed to church and world in the encyclical letters of John Paul II, Veritatis Splendor (1993; "The Splendour of Truth") and Evangelium Vitae (1995; "The Gospel of Life").
In an op-ed published in the Guardian, he explained that the jihadists thrive off this sense of civilizational struggle with non-Muslims: With [Isis's] news and social media interest, they will be noting everything that follows their murderous assault on Paris, and my guess is that right now the chant among them will be "We are winning".
His Ottoman counterparts felt a similar civilizational crisis.
The early period of the primary has been marked by an unexpectedly apocalyptic strain — even establishment candidates like Marco Rubio have taken to talking about "civilizational" struggles, and describing a nation on a quick path to ruin.
But that left a rhetorical problem: What does a civilizational struggle look like, anyway, if it doesn't involve a ground war?
They are ways to insist that you have joined a civilizational struggle, without raising the prospect of actual war.
"Who Are We?" would be less puzzling if Huntington had been more explicit about the larger vision of global civilizational conflict from which it derives.
Campbell sees the massacre as a dark chapter in the late stages of a civilizational struggle, from oppression to liberation.
The principal goals of the 9/11 attacks were to ignite a civilizational war between Islam and the West, especially America; to marginalize moderate Muslims and strengthen violent Islamists; to expose American religious tolerance and pluralism as a sham; and to recruit young Muslims to the most brutal, retrograde, reactionary form of jihad.
Inevitably, as the geo-civilizational plates push up against one another and produce tremors, might the cultural equivalent of subduction take place?
