Sentence examples for define civilisation from inspiring English sources

So how do you define civilisation?

Still, even if he turns out not to be the man to define Civilisation for a new era, one thing is beyond doubt: Mr MacGregor is indispensable to the nation's cultural life.

It both defines civilisation and threatens it.

It defined the "civilisation crisis" as the conjunction of economic, environmental and democratic crises.

One "pro-life" group accused him of "taking the Josef Mengele chair in bioethics", while the Wall Street Journal, attacking Princeton for "jettisoning... the understanding of man's dignity that has defined western civilisation for two millennia" in appointing Singer, compared him to Hitler's deputy Martin Bormann.

There are Christians in Africa, the US, and indeed Europe, who see Islam as an eternal and existential foe, mirroring the attitudes of their jihadi enemies; there is a strain of rightwing Christianity which defines European civilisation itself by its opposition to Islam.

In it he argued that the conflicts of the future would not be between ideologies but between "civilisations" defined by culture.

I hope it made me more compassionate to the parents ferrying around some of my friends, gave me some insight into why people might have liked a civilisation defined by Thatcher, even as she lost power nine miles up the Thames.

Clark never pretended to tell the entire history of civilisation – and he refused to define it.

But most importantly, it has come to be seen as a clash of civilisations, one that helped to define a series of boundaries, between Europe and Asia, Christian and Muslim, Hapsburg and Ottoman, that influence the view between Vienna and Istanbul to this day.

American civilisation's dominance over Europe - and what to do about it 'Civilization' -- a hard term to define.