Sentence examples for civilizational issues from inspiring English sources

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 the line of descent from Jane Jacobs, he sees cities as the sites of small-scale, unplanned human interactions that, in the aggregate, yield big civilizational rewards.

For Egypt, it would be a return to its civilizational roots as a world center of learning.

The 9/11 attacks were officially framed in cultural and civilizational terms, rather than as an event with a genealogy better understood in terms of geopolitics and recent history.

Pope Francis has become, in effect, the planet's pastor and reconciler-in-chief, washing the feet of the poor and incarcerated, taking in refugees at the Vatican, meeting with Muslim clerics, venerating China's long civilizational heritage and declaring that climate change and inequality are moral issues.

This larger scale gord building activity, from the mid-8th century on, was a manifestation of the emergence of tribal organisms, a new civilizational quality, representing rather efficient proto-political organizations and social structures on a new level.

One set of issues that has yet to give rise to extended philosophical reflection is the question how civilizational differences are expressed in scientific work (See Bala 2008).

All civilizational norms were tossed aside.

"We are provoking civilizational struggle," he writes.

His Ottoman counterparts felt a similar civilizational crisis.

They obey scientific rigor rather than mere civilizational tendencies.