Sentence examples for saved civilization from inspiring English sources

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 civilization when it was threatened by German and Japanese warmongers.

If, as books by other authors have argued, cod changed the world and the Irish saved civilization, Mr. Katz's work often brushes up against the idea that the discovery of fermentation provided a crucial step in human evolution.

Yo, though you walk through the valley of the shadow of death, you will fear no evil as long as you stick to a walking tour we have designed with a theme just for you: how the Republicans saved civilization.

A stark place to live, even for early Christian Irish monks, who I think of as having been an intensely stark people, a people who saved civilization more or less by sitting there and being really stark, until people were ready to read their manuscripts again.

The war that saved civilization from the Nazis!

The importance of the battle was considered so great that the French clergyman and statesman Cardinal Richelieu was reported to have described it as "the battle that saved civilization".

Good gas mileage could save civilization.

We wage a war to save civilization itself.

How could it be expected to save civilization from the seemingly invincible forces of darkness?

It's fairly impressive that Mr. Gingrich remembers the exact date he first mentioned saving civilization.

Despite many serious differences between them, they united to save civilization.