Sentence examples for form of civilisation from inspiring English sources

Surely, the highest form of civilisation, and the envy of the world.

As the only form of civilisation for miles around, the camp naturally attracted passersby, prompting Mahmoud to build a permanent settlement in 1995.

Why, he wanted to know, had the societies of Greece and Rome failed to ensure an unbroken continuity into the present day for their distinctively urban form of civilisation?

I think we're at a point now where we can make that choice, to say maybe we can harness the positives that we've developed with industrial civilisation and develop something new, a post-growth, post-industrial form of civilisation that doesn't reject science and technology but recognises that ultimately you have to be living within the limits of your environmental systems.

It's time that governments, corporations and the public alike woke up to the fact that we are fast entering a new post-carbon era, and that the quicker we adapt to it, the far better our chances of successfully redefining a new form of civilisation - a new form of prosperity - that is capable of living in harmony with the Earth system.

And to accompany my trips into those haunted red spaces, I've been reading, again and again, Nicolas Rothwell's brilliant, dark and sublime accounts of his drives into the places where one form of civilisation ends and another begins to make itself felt.

He issued a statement in which, speaking on the behalf of the academy, he criticised Tolstoy for having "condemned all forms of civilisation... one feels dubious".

While the exact form of human civilisation cannot be predicted over such long time scales (or even over shorter time scales), we can make some general conclusions.

It has the petrodollar glitz of the Gulf and the monumental axial planning of Pyongyang, but each mirror-glass facade is drenched with a more explicit desire to hark back to an imagined past, searching for legitimacy in the forms of ancient civilisations and Kazakh folk motifs.

This is the region where the three Abrahamic religions were formed and divided, the so-called cradle of civilisation.

Centred on cities such as Mohenjo-daro, Harappa, Dholavira, and Kalibangan, and relying on varied forms of subsistence, the civilisation engaged robustly in crafts production and wide-ranging trade.