Sentence examples for civilized state from inspiring English sources

It's behavior unfitting of a "civilized state," harrumphed one Swiss politician.

The horrific results meant that no rational, civilized state could use them again.

Who, for example, can imagine a civilized state whose disputes are resolved without gentlemen's duels?

"In a civilized state, the fate of the present leadership would be determined" by such a scandal.

In the 18th century, the Qing Dynasty is at its height; it is the wealthiest, most powerful, most civilized state on earth.

Modern medical theory helped bring about that state of affairs, but so did a more diffuse sense of what it means to live in a civilized state.

Now Reagan offered his answer: a great, humanitarian coalition in which America would stand alongside other civilized states.

He planned to write a "history of government in all the civilized States in the world," to be called "The Philosophy of Politics".

The case would not be decided differently if lotteries had been lawful when the 14th Amendment became law, as indeed they were in some civilized states.

Little in history supports the proposition that China was the center of the Asian universe commanding deference among less civilized states around its periphery.

An America friendly to Russia can give my country a new impulse for democratic change; it can bring Russia into the team of civilized states.