Sentence examples for great civilisation from inspiring English sources

Iranians think of themselves as having been part of a great civilisation.

Dogs were run through a provincial town with placards marked "Towards the Great Civilisation" pinned to their rumps.

Now, however, the doomed dreamers have been proved right: there was a great civilisation.

"We come to Iraq with respect for its citizens, for their great civilisation and for the religious faiths they practise.

The inhabitants of the heartland are descendants of the rugged pioneers who carved a great civilisation out of mountains and prairies.

The film opens with a quote about the Roman empire from Will Durant: "A great civilisation is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within".

When we think of the great civilisations that have come before us, we associate their greatness with the ideas that drove their culture forward.

Openness is the propellant of great civilisations.

"All great civilisations are based on parochialism," he wrote.

In the past 3,000 years, the country has spawned great civilisations, but nothing resembling a modern democracy.

He notes that public debt and inflation have caused the collapse of great civilisations.