Sentence examples for present-day civilization from inspiring English sources

Schwarz catalogue (a listing of toys) is as representative of our present-day civilization as anything could be.

Read the speech in full It is my belief that this state of affairs contains a clear challenge not only to the Euro-American world but to our present-day civilization as a whole.

They created the first great civilization on the peninsula, whose influence on the Romans as well as on present-day culture is increasingly recognized.

In fact, Gaitonde's painting may be the most significant bridge between the present day culture of India back to a time before India had become beset by the many colonial incursions imposed on its artists and civilization.

The grandfather (Armen Djigarkhanyan) helped excavate the remains of the ancient Khorezm civilization in present-day Uzbekistan.

But if Mesopotamia is the cradle of civilization, the lands of present-day Ukraine are probably the cradle of conquest.

Aztlán, the mythical Eden of the Aztec civilization somewhere in the present-day American Southwest or northern Mexico, is the muse for the artifacts, paintings and other works in this show, from pre-Colombian times to the present.

One of the most significant archeological sites in northern Peru is the Moche civilization of Sipan, near present-day Chiclayo.

Without harvesting of the biomass, Smil points out, there would be no story of human evolution and advancing civilization; but at the same time, the increasing extent and intensity of present-day biomass harvests are changing the very foundations of civilization's well-being.

The Ropar area has been inhabited for millennia, and the present-day town is the site of a centre of the ancient Indus civilization.

In the 1620s Sultan Agung, ruler of the central Javanese kingdom of Mataram and representative of the old and highly sophisticated Javanese civilization, sought to extend his power over Bantam (near present-day Banten) in western Java.