Sentence examples for process of civilization from inspiring English sources

"Speer, on the other hand, was, by origin and upbringing, the product of a long process of civilization.

Seen from this perspective, golf would be the result of the process of civilization as described in the work of German-born sociologist Norbert Elias.

Children undergo a process of civilization so that, when the rest of us have kicked it, they can perpetuate the civilization we spent our lives perpetuating so that, when they have children of their own, those children might continue perpetuating the perpetuating process, and on and on in perpetuity.

"Men may differ as to the particular form of governmental activity with respect to industry or business but nearly all are agreed that private enterprise in times such as these cannot be left without assistance and without reasonable safeguards lest it destroy not only itself but also our process of civilization".

He finds that the obese man signifies a moral and medical failure; yet, in the guise of the fat detective (like Nero Wolfe), he also becomes "the modern body, with fat masking the internal processes of civilization".

Officially, China has fifty-six ethnic groups; Han Chinese are by far the most numerous, representing more than ninety per cent of the population, and, historically, the vast majority of Han are proud of their role in Tibet, which they see as a long, costly process of extending civilization to a backward region.

The progress of civilization eliminated many causes of death that killed young people in the past.

We have, in effect, created a global mechanism that is in the process of eating our civilization alive.

Deforestation there may possibly have led to ruinous silting in downstream reaches, although the contribution of this process to the eventual decline of civilization on the Euphrates and the Indus remains largely a matter of guesswork.

We understood that what was underway was a process of change in the civilization.

Behind these complex cultural activities is the spatial-temporal process of social interactions among civilizations.