Sentence examples for made civilization from inspiring English sources

In short, our brain evolved circuits to allow us to experience empathy and compassion, which in turn made civilization, and an ethics based on compassion, possible.

What has made civilization possible has been our ability to partially sublimate these instincts into behaviors facilitating productivity and coexistence.

You can ask, Why did human beings not make civilization fifty thousand years ago?

Have privacy, good taste and the sense of shame that makes civilization possible all vanished utterly?

None of our country's four slain Presidents were victims of any distinct idea of opposition or hope of gain; they were sacrificed, rather, to the blind tides of criminality and insanity that make civilization precarious.

Mr. Meier's team at Firaxis Games clearly took seriously the idea of making Civilization more appealing and accessible to new players, but they glossed over and basically eliminated too many elements of previous Civ designs.

Importing the ambience of Amsterdam's red-light district to a private home in Bedford, N.Y., is exactly the kind of desperate, trivial and expensive dislocation that should make civilization tremble beneath the revelers' feet.

When you realize that for much of history, the fates of our peoples have been linked -- making civilization in Córdoba, sailing into exile as Columbus sailed to the New World -- you know that the past 50 years of bad feeling is an aberration.

They are directly responsible to our elected and appointed GOVERNMENT (you know, the thing that makes civilization possible) officials.

Regardless of how much CO2 they soak up, Gu says, wild plants are a key ally in our quest to make civilization sustainable.

5. Just like kindergarten, where we learn to sit criss-cross applesauce, making civilization possible by staying in our own space, no runners or walkers in the bike lane.