Sentence examples for fall of civilisation from inspiring English sources

"On the sofa, crying and worrying about the imminent fall of civilisation," will come the reply.

A skirmish in Clacton, at Easter, was hysterically written up by newspapers as the decline and fall of civilisation.

Well, obviously not that part about millions of people dying, but the fantasy of being free and alone after the fall of civilisation.

Archaeologists and historians in the period charted the rise and fall of civilisations.

Though Swift's deluge seems to presage the fall of civilisations, Gay thinks it worth fussing over suitable headwear.

His own hero was Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406), regasded as the greatest of Arab historians, the first to identify the regular rise and fall of civilisations, a theme taken up by many subsequent writers, including some contemporary ones.

He quotes, for instance, leading collapse anthropologist Prof Joseph Tainter, who critiques the HANDY model for a "flawed" understanding of the rise and fall of civilisations due to unsustainable levels of complexity.

Isn't history the account of the rise and fall of civilisations?'".

Syria's antiquities chief, Maamoun Abdulkarim, told Reuters its fall represented "the fall of a civilisation".

On Facebook, many of my "friends" hold Kardashian (and, by extension, Paper) complicit in the decline and fall of western civilisation.

One minute it's volleyball, the next it's people heading for the sand dunes, and the fall of western civilisation.