Sentence examples for for a civilisation from inspiring English sources

Vermeer painted for a civilisation that worked.

I ask them not to give up in the face of such violence and to become apostles for a civilisation of love".

The fact is: Under the Volcano, with no overt political axe to grind, beats a drum for a civilisation teetering on the edge.

Its leaders Hugo Ball and Richard Huelsenbeck would soon be joined by groups all over Europe and as far afield as New York, who shared their contempt for a civilisation that sent its young to die in the trenches.

Along with close associates such as the poet Hugh MacDiarmid, Mackenzie helped establish the Hebrides as a place of refuge, solace, even salvation, for a civilisation in crisis in the middle of the 20th century.

"We expect that heat records will continue to get broken – not everywhere and not every year – but increasingly, and that does not bode well for a civilisation that is continuing to add greenhouse gases to the atmosphere at an increasing rate".

All of which makes it far more satisfying than a straight, pulpy, alien invasion drama – a true classic that has pointed the way not just for science-fiction writers, but for how we as a civilisation might think of ourselves.

So who was he, this sage who, if Plato is right, launched a project that has lasted for millennia and shaped a civilisation?

As in A Delicate Balance, Albee is also offering a metaphor for a decaying civilisation.

Five hundred years after his death, the Book of Dave will be disinterred to become the template for a new civilisation.

The predominant varieties of atheist thinking, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, aimed to show that the secular west is the model for a universal civilisation.