Sentence examples for mark of civilization from inspiring English sources

"You are building up a hierarchy, a social structure that's a mark of civilization".

The capital also had world-class golf courses, because President Félix Houphouët-Boigny, the relatively benign dictator who had led Ivory Coast since its nominal independence from France, in 1960, considered the sport to be a mark of civilization.

The true mark of civilization is its willingness to assert itself against its sworn enemies.

They are a mark of civilization (or whatever), but they're also teaching tools.

While not a music lover himself, Peter saw European-based entertainments as a mark of civilization and did nothing to curb what was by then a regular influx of foreign composers, singers and instrumentalists to the Imperial court.

"These marks were important because they served as a marker of civilization," said Dr. Clark.

Happy New Year greetings are hardly monuments of peace, but they can be marks of civilization.

("Exploiting common waste as a resource is a mark of sustainable civilization," a booklet on the building observes).

Second, the conservative argues that freedom moral, political, and economic is the mark of high civilization; and servitude, under whatever name, is the mark of a barbarous or decadent order.

They've forgotten that "Fear Factor" can't mark the end of civilization if Chuck Barris ended it decades ago.

In the same way that the Roman Empire in A.D. 100 marked the extent of civilization, Gibbon felt that his own mind and values, not to say his society, his class, symbolized in 1776 (when the first volume of "The Decline and Fall" appeared) the only possible foundation of human order and civilized interest.