Sentence examples for us civilisation from inspiring English sources

The reason for coming here was simple: Britain had outlawed slavery 12 years earlier, and as the source of US civilisation, Douglass and his fellow abolitionists hoped that Britain could use its "moral force" over the American elite.

A culture clash threatens to become a car crash when Viggo Mortensen and his tribe of Chomsky-worshipping forest-dwellers are forced back into mainstream US "civilisation".

If I were Erich von Däniken I would say that he was otherworldly, that he came to this planet to show us civilisation and humanity.

"We will not let anyone separate us from civilisation, modern times and democracy".

Shots of over-the-hill reprobates lounging in pools and gulping oxygen tell us that civilisation – as in TGB – is wobbling, if not in its death-throes.

Holding meetings about Spain was, Gollancz urged, "the first big chance for us to prove that we are, each one of us, missionaries for civilisation".

We cannot continue to let the same forces that divided us during the dawn of civilisation divide us still.

He defied Zeus's injunctions against aiding humans, daring to steal fire on our behalf, teach us the arts of civilisation and show us how to protect ourselves from the gods' greed.

Yet very few of us are prepared to look honestly at the message this reality is screaming at us: that the civilisation we are a part of is hitting the buffers at full speed, and it is too late to stop it.

They are there to provide us with both civilisation and competitiveness".

Rupert Murdoch tweeted: "Paris outrage not an attack on all humanity, but an attack on us, ie, western civilisation".