Sentence examples for wider civilization from inspiring English sources

"As part of a wider civilization of English-speaking people, it was important that we understood each other better," he said.

A type III, galaxy-wide civilization could hypothetically surround all stars in energy-harvesting "Dyson spheres" (artist's representation above) but these would nevertheless leak a lot of waste heat in the midinfrared.

In another book, Mustaqbal al-thaqāfah fī Miṣr (1938; The Future of Culture in Egypt), he expounds his belief that Egypt belongs by heritage to the same wider Mediterranean civilization that embraces Greece, Italy, and France; it advocates the assimilation of modern European culture.

The described dichotomy is clearly part of a much wider one: civilizations fall apart yet their component societies live on; societies disintegrate but their citizens survive; individuals die while their cells, perversely, still metabolize; finally, cells can be disrupted yet the enzymes they release may, for a while, remain active.

My favorite game in the whole wide world, Civilization, is getting one more incarnation.

The pamphlet stresses that the British Museum is free and attracts millions of visitors every year from around the world, making the sculptures available to, and putting them in the context of, a wide swath of human civilization.

I'd wait at least five years before declaring that the Islamic civilization is wide open.

But in the wider context of Western civilization--of democracy, of America's role in the world and in its oversight of multinational corporations based within its borders--what does it all mean?

Much of this is widespread — civilization-wide, taking in the suburbs of Ottawa and Brussels as much as the Bronx.

In other words, that long period we call the Protestant Reformation was messy, disaggregated, and civilization-wide.

Their movies, leading contenders for the foreign-language film Oscar, manage to find new ways to plunge us into the civilization-wide madness that was the Holocaust.