Sentence examples for civilized activity from inspiring English sources

The common argument is that bribery happens in developing economies where the rule of law is questionable, while lobbying is a more civilized activity that brings economic benefits.

In editing our revamped FORBES Life section, Joshua Levine says he's always mindful of the Russian playwright's broad definition of culture, adding that in end-of- millennium America, strenuous adventure is also part of civilized activity.

And this was in the sixties and there was a lot of civilized activities, especially in the United States of America, and in Europe there was a lot of student movements, it was during the times of the Vietnam War, and there was a lot of challenges that the students were putting forward.

Time for a civilized pause in between activities isn't considered important — if anything, it's the opposite.

Don't forget that there are very many of us here who consider hunting an unnecessary, anachronistic activity of which civilized people would be ashamed.

If Daisy hadn't blitzkrieged our net worth at Bloomingdale's nothing much would have changed; it's likely I wouldn't have cared if she were only steadily depleting our bank account, a time-honored activity in our civilized world.

"This was designed in a period when that kind of terrorist activity was not anticipated by civilized designers," he said.

"This was designed in a period when that kind of terrorist activity was not anticipated by civilized designers," Mr. Guthard said.

I applaud and celebrate reading fiction for pleasure, especially because of its importance as an activity in fostering an aware and civilized society.

The latter was controversial because in the 19th century it was believed that you needed an education to be able to see and understand beauty, restricting such activities to 'the most refined and civilized human beings' (Zuk 2003; Hosken and House 2011).

The state-sponsored cultural project, which seeks to convert traditional ancestral temples into cultural halls, memorials and elderly activity centers and to develop a modern, civilized and socialist countryside, is in fact incorporated into the self-development of modern lineage culture by local people.