the productive culture of ancient Greece & the nation's modest place in contemporary civilization has led some historians to speculate on the possibility that the climate has become warmer & less energizing.
He joked that the great tragedy of 2009 is that it's only the second most productive year in human civilization and that years before we had projected that it would be a record setter.
Sands, silts, and clays deposited by floodwaters were extremely productive agriculturally; and major civilizations flourished in the deltaic plains of the Nile and Tigris-Euphrates rivers.
The "smart city" is a good programme because it can aim at developing a new form of "modernity and civilization" of the productive platform.
The "acquisitive principle" combined with productive labor can lead to civilization, "uplift[ing] and enlighten[ing] the heathen!" ("Duty of Free Colored Men," 229 30).
The economic base of the civilization was a highly productive agriculture, but the basic tools were primitive stone axes for clearing vegetation and a number of wooden digging tools for working the soil.
The free market, Greenspan told the graduating seniors, is a pillar of civilization which "presupposes the productive interaction of people engaged in the division of labor, driven -- I cannot resist the jargon -- by economic comparative advantage.
Ours are civilizations with proud histories and productive workers.
Whoever your friend is, share with Bill Maher how your friend's name has not somehow caused him to inadvertently undermine the foundation of Western Civilization, and that he's even a productive member of society.
For hundreds of years, millions of people were forced to provide the most productive, innovative, and accountable labor in the history of western civilization for free.
