Sentence examples for civilized method from inspiring English sources

It was hanged, on the premise that this was the most civilized method.

As a divorce lawyer I can testify to the injustices described in "Going It Alone in Divorce Court" (Sept . 11, which have led me to despair of the adversarial brutality of ending a marriage in court toward practicing the more civilized method of mediation.

The most civilized method is less fashionable now than it was, but you still see it from time to time.

But we should also have a sane and civilized method for non-citizens to enter and exit the United States.

"It's a good thing," he said, "when they lay down their weapons and show their ideas through civilized methods".

But I'd stopped drinking, so when I arrived in Prague I resorted to the more civilized, though less exciting, method of soberly calling contractors and Irish bar owners.

He sees ChildLink not only as security against abduction but also as protection wherever a child's urge to explore overtakes a parent's ability to cope.... Technologically, he says, it is not very different from that other method of civilized confinement the ankle bracelet for house arrest.

Civilized society replaced these methods with a more humane alternative -- using the court system to resolve disputes.

That treatment of the vanquished was a great advance in civilized behaviour compared with the methods of Genghis Khan and those of Kublai's contemporaries in Central Asia, where the massacre of the population was still the expected sequel to the capture of a city.

While the country calls itself civilized, we observe that the forces of law and order resort to such methods for deportations.

If we are truly a civilized country based on principles and not ideologies, we will be open to the idea of experimenting with different methods of achieving prosperity.