Sentence examples for mighty civilization from inspiring English sources

Witnesses likened them variously to weather formations, natural disasters, and the wordless architects of some mighty civilization.

There is no doubt that he eschews relativism, from the title of his book to affirmations like this: "By all the standards that matter in the modern world -- economic development and job creation, literacy and educational and scientific achievement, political freedom and respect for human rights -- what was once a mighty civilization has indeed fallen low".

IN their day, they took pride in being known as conquistadors, those tough Spanish peasants who fled the poverty of Estremadura to chase distant dreams of land and gold and ended up crushing the mightiest civilizations of the New World.

The mighty forces of civilization have not been able to tame her, so now we are trying flattery.

It is, he declared, "the mightiest, richest, most creative civilization on earth — a civilization that perturbs the trajectories of all other civilizations just by existing.

"The only continent that would astound the Renaissance time-travelers would be North America, which was primitive and nearly vacant as late as 1607, but which today hosts the mightiest, richest, most dynamic civilization in history -- a civilization, moreover, that perturbs the trajectories of all other civilizations just by existing".

Another point is also worth mentioning: western civilization is still mighty in modern times; although it features various other uncertainties, the westernization of the whole world is still a powerful trend.

In 490 B.C., Athenians staged a mighty victory over the Persians here, to save their civilization.

FOR the curious child drawn to picture books or National Geographic articles about ancient civilizations, it's almost a rite of passage to come across the mighty megaliths on Easter Island and puzzle over how they got there.

The mighty struggle against nature reaches transcendental proportions and in all cases approaches allegory and myth: man against nature, civilization against barbarism, good against evil.

The mighty, mighty Afghans".