Sentence examples for which civilisation from inspiring English sources

The statues were resolutely European, perhaps suggesting the direction in which civilisation flowed.

In the tunnels to which civilisation has retreated, there are hunks of broken statuary at which the hero stares aghast.

So from this crossbow developed one of the great aculturing factors by which civilisation itself is judged.

Global warming didn't cause the earthquake and tsunami that devastated the Miyagi coast, but global warming daily is shrinking the leeway on which civilisation everywhere depends.

The Americans, to their credit, also applauded but when it comes to bendy little girls there is no question as to which civilisation is ascendant.

Today it holds the key to solving the two greatest challenges facing humanity: eradicating poverty, and maintaining the stable climatic corridor in which civilisation can thrive".

Thus, the human tendency to coalesce around abstract concepts such as religion or nation, which underpins civilisation, may well be an evolutionary legacy of a violent past.

Not the American continent, upon which human civilisation was already flourishing before any doughty Genoan ever set boot on the Bahamas.

Over the course of this period, it flipped from the frigid wasteland of deepest and darkest ice age to the – broadly speaking – balmy, temperate world upon which our civilisation has developed and thrived.

Ice ages and the consequent sea level changes are another major geological time marker, and the end of the last one 12,000 years ago ushered in the mild, stable climate in which human civilisation has flourished.

Compassion does not always sit comfortably with conservation (see article), but a broad concern for the welfare of other species underlies environmentalism.In the 19th century the industrial revolution spawned the Romantic movement, which viewed civilisation as barbaric and nature as the source of all beauty: just as man started to destroy his surroundings, so he began to treasure them.