Sentence examples for civilizational roots from inspiring English sources

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

It has accepted a plank of good governance for all, which for young Hindus could also mean a repudiation of brazen, racist Hinduphobia, and for others might prove a reassurance eventually that India's secular constitution will not be threatened, and may even be strengthened by recognizing the civilizational roots on which that country's many religions rest.

This curriculum has over the years built a narrative that disassociates Pakistan from its Indian civilizational roots, glorifies Pakistan's Islamic (primarily Sunni) identity and relegates Pakistan's non-Muslim minorities (and even Shias and Ahmadis) to the status of second-class citizens.

To neglect that purpose is to restrict responsibility for the broad civilizational crime, with roots in the religious anti-Judaism of the Christian Church, to a small gang of Nazi thugs, as if no one else were guilty.

Marco Rubio took a different tack, however, in declaring "a civilizational conflict with radical Islam".

The root cause of our current economic and civilizational crisis is not Wall Street (although the decoupling of the financial and the real economy is a huge problem).

As a civilizational state, the legitimacy of China's government is deeply rooted in its own historical tradition, shaped over the millennia since the country was first unified under the Emperor Qin in 221 B.C. China's one-party governance today may look illegitimate in the eyes of many Westerners but to most Chinese.

If we look past the fanfare and see the world's richest private university spending $1 million per year to address a civilizational crisis, congratulating itself while investing hundreds of times more in the root cause of that crisis, are we supposed to feel reassured?

More than any other Republican candidate, with the possible exception of John McCain, Giuliani has rooted his campaign in the grand and foreboding notion that America is now engaged in a civilizational struggle.

All civilizational norms were tossed aside.

"We are provoking civilizational struggle," he writes.