Sentence examples for some civilisation from inspiring English sources

If you don't like England, you're probably sitting next to Martin Amis on a plane right now, seeking some civilisation more worthy or cerebral than our own.

If you do find yourself craving some civilisation (ancient or modern), you'll find it just a couple of hours' drive away, in Saranda.

He confides in a bad-news voice that he's been up all night and fancied "a change, some civilisation".

The Socialist Serge Letchimy, from Martinique, questioned the interior minister and close Sarkozy ally, Claude Guéant, over his controversial comments this weekend that "not all civilisations are of equal value", and his assertion that some civilisations, namely France's, are worth more than others.

Its latest strongman, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the field-marshal who led last year's coup against an elected Muslim Brother president, will win the coming election; but unless he can mend the economy, his popularity will wane, just as Mr Mubarak's did.The argument that some civilisations are unsuited to democracy has been used from Taiwan to South Africa: it seldom holds water for long.

For some viewers, Civilisation was life-changing.

Hopefully they'll attract the attention of some advanced civilisation.

I would like to think that in the enormous databank of some ancient civilisation are records of the formation of our solar system - perhaps even of the galaxy.

Evander, his tour guide, a settler from Arcadia, points out the ruins of some former civilisation: reliquias ueterumque uides monimenta uirorum – you see the relics and monuments of ancient peoples.

The phone is proof of visits from an alien civilisation, some say.

In Kimie Nakano's draped costumes they look like the warriors of some ancient Mesopotamian civilisation.