Sentence examples for saved civilisation from inspiring English sources

Media pundits in those early days used to urge us to think of the country as being at war and to fire ourselves up with the same plucky spirit that saved civilisation from the Nazi threat.

A new generation of budding discophiles, with peach fuzz where their ironic facial hair is still growing, suddenly discovered what their forebears long took for granted: Giorgio Moroder saved civilisation.

I had very much hoped that the book was going to be a sort of How Gays Saved Civilisation.

In the three years between the crises in Spain and central Europe, Mr Overy writes, "the balance between saving civilisation through peace and saving civilisation by war swung decisively in favour of the latter".

I didn't grow up wanting to be a square-jawed individualist or join a heroic quest; I grew up wanting to be Hari Seldon, using my understanding of the mathematics of human behaviour to save civilisation.

The problem is, they just aren't doing it on anything like the scale needed to save civilisation from tipping over the multiple precipice it is approaching as a result of carbon-fuel dependency.

He spent his 20s trying to avoid Adolf Hitler and drifting among a number of jobs, including banking, consultancy, academic law and journalism (his journalistic career included a spell as the acting editor of a women's page).Along the way, he became increasingly convinced that the best hope for saving civilisation from barbarism lay in the humdrum science of management.

An inscription saying that the Soviet people saved European civilisation from fascism catches my eye.

The time to act, he says, is now and we all have to play our part in kicking the carbon habit: "Saving civilisation is not a spectator sport".

I woke up and said, "why, where is it written that I have to save western civilisation?

Thank god for the Guardian, saving western civilisation from Rupert Murdoch and providing both OBO and a rollong report on the Tour de France".