Sentence examples for rules of civilised from inspiring English sources

People who consistently break the rules of civilised behaviour should not receive unconditional benefits.

As the rules of civilised life are swept away and the only people interested in getting married are lesbian clergywomen, there will soon be thousands of them".

The Turkish army, for its part, in 1997 engineered the collapse of a secular-Islamist Turkish coalition, led by an Islamist prime minister, that might have laid down the ground rules for civilised compromise.The soldiers' case rested, and still rests, on the thesis that radical Islamists are not to be trusted in positions of power.

"Become the 'you' who's normally hidden away behind the veneer of civilised society's rules and regulations".

Will it continue with 'modernisation' under authoritarian rule, or will it embrace universal human values, join the mainstream of civilised nations, and build a democratic system?

Controversially, the Nuremberg judges ruled that the systemic killing of German Jews and others had been against the "customary" law of civilised countries before the war, which continued to apply during it.

They need a voice of civilised conservatism.

Freud pointed out that these libidinal drives can conflict with the conventions of civilised behaviour.

Some hope that party politics can be avoided in favour of civilised debate and continued consensus.

They should be equipped with the basics of civilised life, including water filters and solar panels.

It is more the law of the jungle than the law of civilised England.