Sentence examples for elements of civilization from inspiring English sources

In the interests of maintaining their hold on the elements of civilization companies delay the development of new resources and divert old resources not to where they are most needed but to where the highest profits can be expected.

"May I ask your cooperation in the preparation of a map showing the distribution of the higher elements of civilization throughout the world?" Huntington began, and he continued: My purpose is to prepare a map which shall show the distribution of those characteristics which are generally recognized as of the highest value.

By Hendrik Hertzberg The New Yorker, August 23 , 1999P. 62 Talk story about National Geographic Adventure (publ).... Writer describes the cover photograph, which although of a desolate landscape at first glance, has elements of civilization in it on further examination..

While Mr. Quinn stood on a stage designed to look like a decaying amphitheater, repeating a routine about the elements of civilization the Romans appropriated from the Greeks, Mr. Seinfeld sat to the side, forcing his audibly hoarse star to start over if he stumbled on his lines or omitted even a single word.

Courtesy, urbanity, good humor, wealth, self-satisfaction, and other destructive elements of civilization had descended upon Liston like the Asian flu, and Ibn Khaldun, that matchless Tunisian diagnostician, would have instantly recognized the symptoms of what is in store for him.

People don't think about engineers as significant elements of civilization and society.

The German-born philosopher Francis Lieber called it an "element of civilization" — worthy of comparison with the printing press and the mariner's compass.

"Our national life," wrote Prus, "will take a normal course only when we have become a useful, indispensable element of civilization, when we have become able to give nothing for free and to demand nothing for free".

"My pride, as an American, was greatly aroused when I saw our country, in contradistinction to others, dealing out elements of culture, instruction and civilization," he wrote.

Together with most of the elements of Greek civilization, this cult was transferred to Italy.

Indeed, some elements of Western civilization had been gradually introduced into Japan even during the Tokugawa era.