Sentence examples for of the civilisation from inspiring English sources

Or is Wolf Hall, like Brideshead, the architecture that expresses the inherent meaning of the civilisation that constructed it.

To let fear of bigots and maniacs rule our art galleries is a betrayal of the civilisation we claim to uphold.

The Maya scribes during the peak centuries of the civilisation wrote about great events, kings and nobles in a language that did not change much through the years.

"These are all the traces of the civilisation of the city associated with Angkor Wat, made of wood and thatch, that has disappeared.

So we went on to Marseille, the 2013 European Capital of Culture, to see the new MuCEM (the politically correct and wearyingly inclusive Museum of the Civilisation of Europe and the Mediterranean), perhaps France's very last grand projet.

So five years ago, Stuart started up Maya Decipherment, a blog for scholars and amateurs to post new inscriptions, refine translations and debate the subtleties of Mayan language, all in an effort to fill out the history of the civilisation.

The most important political value in China is the integrity and unity of the civilisation-state.

New book challenges accepted wisdom about demise of the indigenous civilisation.

Rise and fall of the carbon civilisation: resolving global environmental and resource problems.

Another example of the steady civilisation of the Wild West Internet of the 90s and 00s.

In the early 1990s he described himself as an "advocate of civilisation, definer of civilisation, teacher of the rules of civilisation…leader (possibly) of the civilising forces".