There's not a country in the world more modern and civilized than Japan; its building codes and engineering prowess kept its great buildings from collapsing when the much milder quake in Haiti last year flattened everything.
Robert Sutton in his book (using a cruder term for the same sort of person) The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't, argues that talented yet disruptive employees always cause more harm than good.
Campbell is referring to the points outlined in the book called The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't, written by Stanford professor Robert I. Sutton.
Proponents of a ban include many of the same people who succeeded in building a civilized-world consensus against the use of crippling and indiscriminate land mines.
— Jeff Gordinier Smithsonian: A panegyric to the public market as the building block of civilized urban life, with a gold star for the West Side Market in Cleveland, an architectural gem that has become a key engine of the city's revitalization.
The real hope for significant change in this domain arrives not from hardware or regulations, but from software Silicon Valley information-technology tamed, civilized and optimized for the building market.
He reassured, saying, "No," for later in season 5, Deanna had shared with Rick about her vision of building a thriving civilized society.
Building a whole order of civilized societies is a challenge that will take every bit of creativity and intelligence and wisdom that people can muster.
As a civilized people, we do not put commercial buildings on people's graves... or do we?
Even if China fulfills its second centennial goal of "building a prosperous and strong, democratic, civilized, harmonious socialist modern country" in 2049, the U.S. will not necessarily lose its superpower status thereby.
