Sentence examples for through civilisation from inspiring English sources

Only what has accrued to him through custom and ceremony, through civilisation:  I blinked, ridiculous and rebellious,  Along with my Jesus Mary against irrefutable power,  A descendant of ardent prayers, of gilded sculptures and miracles".

The 17th Century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes also described society as forming an 'Artificial Man' that functions (through civilisation) in a way as to ensure its own survival.

Sure, this small patch of time didn't have any of that late-1990s optimism, but neither was it burdened by the gradual, creeping dread that spread through Western civilisation through the mid to late noughties.

Culturally we changed ourselves too, developing new capacities needs and desires through culture and civilisation.

Economic growth, technology and the magic of human adaptation through tried and tested market mechanisms will see civilisation through what is already an over-hyped crisis.

Fossil fuel burning, by contrast, kills hundreds of thousands of people every year through air pollution, and presents a possibly existential threat to civilisation through climate change.

The surprisingly fun and well presented Hull and East Riding Museum takes you through early civilisations to the present.

"It contains evidence of continuous human settlement through many civilisations including the Assyrian, Roman, Arab – it is an astonishing area to work in and one of the most important in the world," she said.

If he had, he would doubtless have seen through the ostensible civilisation to the barbarism beneath.

Much of Oates's fiction has explored the discontents of American civilisation through history.

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".