In a society that aspires to be moral and just, there is no room for such a state-sanctioned uncivilized practice.
Calling the execution of the mentally retarded a "cruel and uncivilized practice," the diplomats say that it subjects the United States to "daily and growing criticism from the international community".
Calling the execution of the mentally retarded a "cruel and uncivilized practice," the diplomats argued that it diminishes the United States' moral authority and makes it easier for authoritarian countries to duck criticism of their human rights record.
Without showing any impatience, he let himself be chained as usual (the uncivilized practice of this particular blacksmith, who, years earlier, had had a bad experience with a skittish horse; we had tried, in vain, to convince him that this precaution was in every way absurd with regard to Trachi).
During the late 19th and early 20th Century, the US and Canada both outlawed potlatching, because the white population saw the practice as uncivilized and wasteful (it was decriminalized again after World War II).
4. We are certain that buildings were thus originally constructed, from the present practice of uncivilized nations, whose buildings are of spars and thatch, as may be seen in Gaul, in Spain, in Portugal, and in Aquitaine.
Thus, for example, Wilson and Surie commented extensively and critically on the Islamic religious practice of enclosing women (a practice widely condemned as "uncivilized" by Europeans), justifying their criticisms on medical grounds.
Representative Ron Paul said waterboarding is not only torture, it is illegal, immoral, uncivilized and has no practical advantages.
"But now, as people have become more educated, they've come to think the practice isn't scientific, that it's uncivilized".
