Sentence examples for since civilization from inspiring English sources

Ever since civilization first sprang forth here, Egyptians have clustered along the Nile's silt-rich banks.

Since civilization dawned in the Middle East, five and a half thousand years ago, the region's politics and economy have centered on its two great rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates.

But since civilization hasn't yet encroached, a kayak journey to the ice, while physically taxing and psychologically daunting at times, can bring you close to seals, eagles, whales, dolphins, bears and scores of other animals acting, one suspects, as they do when there's no one around.

Climate change has turned into the arch-enemy of civilization and rightfully so, since civilization has excluded concern for the environment until recently.

Before Gettysburg, 95percentt of the world's population lived under monarchic rule, as it had for all the thousands of years since civilization began.

In any ranking of "the most decent societies" since civilization first arose millennia ago, the nations of Western Europe, over these past two or three generations, would rank at the very top.

Such vandalism poses real dangers to its perpetrators, since human civilization relies on the services some of these ecosystems provide.

Her conclusion: "We're in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which we haven't seen since Greek civilization".

Here in southwestern Connecticut, teenage drivers in our semi-rural no-horse town ("boring, boring, bo-ring!") have been feeling the pinch for some months now, since reaching civilization — in the form of movies, the beach, pizza and burger joints — adds an average 10- to 14-mile round trip to the price of amusement.

Since early civilization, humans have required energy.

The breakdown of tradition may in fact provide the great chance to look upon the past "with eyes undistorted by any tradition, with a directness which has disappeared from Occidental reading and hearing ever since Roman civilization submitted to the authority of Greek thought" (BPF, 28 9).