How To Use Civilise In A Sentence
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Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilised society, a prison.
The Scarlet Letter
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The more civilised make up of canvass or "gunny bags" stuffed with hay and provided with cross bars, a rude packsaddle, which is admirably calculated to gall the animal's back.
First Footsteps in East Africa
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We who live in the overcivilised world know that we have lost something.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is rather sorry stuff; but then in purely rural places, untouched by that great civiliser, the railroad, a little wit goes a great way, as we may see by the following story told in Pasquil's "Jests," 1604.
A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide
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The paragraph holds luminously good still for either Bobby – Jones or Moore:What we talk about here is not the hero as sportsman, but that something which a civilised community hungered for and found: the best performer in the world who was also hero as human being, the gentle, wholly self-sufficient male.
My dream job as Bobby Moore's minder for a fortnight | Frank Keating
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Animals civilise a building, and it is a pity that Mrs Blair, no cat-lover, was blamed for the dismissal of Humphrey, a dignified and sagacious mouser.
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But what we do now know is that there endures, in many apparently civilised quarters, a simmering rage of misogyny and mistrust.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nathreee's Thoughts - dreams about wild animals in civilised surroundings
Dreams about wild animals in civilised surroundings
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It also opens a wider question as to whether civilised societies could so quickly revert to primitive behaviour.
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It could no longer be represented by such straightforward dualities as European versus native, or civilised versus wild.
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The more civilised make up of canvass or “gunny bags” stuffed with hay and provided with cross bars, a rude packsaddle, which is admirably calculated to gall the animal’s back.
First footsteps in East Africa
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RH Tawney.had the measure of this kind of bobbins about 80 years ago: "While natural endowments differ profoundly, it is the mark of a civilised society to aim at eliminating such inequalities as have their source, not in individual differences, but in its own organisation.
The Guardian World News
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Robbo equalised in the second half, so now I'm waiting for full time, and drinking vodka and lime, which is all rather civilised.
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The degradation of public discourse, the spread of cynicism, makes our collective life less civilised.
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They're brutal people behind their civilised veneer.
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The scheme was abandoned and he was dumped in a cage at a research institute, alongside other less civilised chimps.
Times, Sunday Times
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Burqa or niqab neither has a place in Islam nor should it obtain a place in civilised Western societies where women are equal to men and public safety of all is paramount.
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Keeping the warring factions behaving in a civilised fashion can be a very difficult job.
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No garment requiring workers to graft for 80 hours a week at 4p an hour can be considered desirable by civilised consumers anywhere.
Times, Sunday Times
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Occasional outbreaks of colourful language aside, the exchanges seemed surprisingly civilised.
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They believe foreigners deem it "uncivilised" and are worried it will cast the city in an unflattering light when Expo 2010 begins.
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The butterfly of the gospel has broken out of its chrysalis at Jerusalem and has flown to the centre of the civilised world.
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It is the sophisticated, mondaine, civilised and generally rather unmilitary Germany described so well in this book.
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Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.
Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library
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Let's discuss this like civilised people.
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Still, the pleasure of delicious food, or of beautiful decoration, or, in some instances, the utility of better nutriment, seems sufficient to a vast majority of civilised men and women to justify these customs.
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There is something grotesque about a civilised society failing to give people clean enough air.
Times, Sunday Times
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This, I take it, is one of the greatest feats of a civiliser.
The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake
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Amis's Keith is a more-or-less civilised massive tool, a student of English literature given to pretentious pontificating, who wants to stay true to his girlfriend but can't help leching slaveringly over the weirdly unselfconscious sexbomb Scheherazade.
Archive 2010-03-01
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First, the idea that the acme of being civilised is lying around your dining table gassing about culture and politics in a nice city, while the slaves do the washing up.
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It is my job to civilise him.
Times, Sunday Times
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Complications kick in, and previously contained feelings of jealousy, betrayal, insecurity and possessiveness threaten to overwhelm what had seemed a rather civilised arrangement.
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Picture a remote estuary entrance, a day's travel from anywhere civilised, the tide is deceptive as it rushes in and out of the gulf, shifting the sands into deep spots every day.
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As I have sometimes seen a Rifian from the hills, with bare magnificent limbs, striding down from the heights carolling a song, to enter the bastardly-civilised city of Tangier, so, it would seem, Chidley descended on to the city of Sydney.
Impressions and Comments
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Two civilised cups of earl grey were enough for both of us.
Times, Sunday Times
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We knew each other far too well to argue in a civilised manner.
MAN AND WIFE
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There is no way that in our modern, civilised society that we can allow this barbaric, medieval practice to continue.
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With that shadow of the epicurean which is apt to be found upon all civilised hearts, she felt that it did her good to realise how nice he was, just as a fresh flower or a strong wind would have done her good.
What Necessity Knows
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But maybe the reporter is one of those, and the event strikes him as an aberration during an otherwise civilised conflict?
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The enterprise of individuals or of small aristocratic bodies has meantime sown the world which we call civilised with some seeds and nuclei of order.
The Life of Reason
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It appeared to Nizan as the only realistic method of conducting human affairs in a civilised manner.
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Hence the virginal Elizabeth, who was chaste and civilised where her queenly predecessor was promiscuous and barbaric.
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The scheme was abandoned and he was dumped in a cage at a research institute, alongside other less civilised chimps.
Times, Sunday Times
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The crawl soon gives way to a small collapse chamber where a slither through a narrow slot leads to cave of slightly more civilised proportions.
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Envy was a civilised emotion, attendant upon some degree of security and the possession of things strictly unnecessary to survival.
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It is possibly the biggest democratiser ever known to the human race and has made free speech a reality for most of the civilised world.
The Inquirer
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Both countries have a spying and military heritage, and both feel they have a mission to civilise the world.
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[Darwin's assertions above indicate that this is no longer the case in civilised society]
Cue outrage in three, two, one…
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If the ‘now me’ ever bumped into the ‘then me’, I'd have no choice but to shoot me for unpardonable sins against civilised dress codes and trousers calculated to frighten children and livestock.
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Hare coursing is a complete anathema in a civilised society.
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Has the soul begun to civilise our primitive urges?
Times, Sunday Times
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Either you respect the basic tenets of civilised society, or you face the consequences.
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He, then, who shall embrace and cultivate poetry under the conditions I have named, shall become famous, and his name honoured throughout all the civilised nations of the earth.
Don Quixote
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Social reformers believed that carefully designed settlements would curb many of these excesses, help to civilise the navvy and improve his work rate.
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If the boys sometimes cross their limit, the whole blame goes these uncultured/uncivilised boys, and the poor girl is just the victim.
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The scheme was abandoned and he was dumped in a cage at a research institute, alongside other less civilised chimps.
Times, Sunday Times
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It really is quite shocking that people can still use such cruel traps in a supposedly civilised society.
Times, Sunday Times
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But in general the Church, as the civiliser of nations, disdained such old wives 'tales.
Words
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'decadence' which has come to its perfection in uncivilised and overcivilised Russia; and the woman whom Ibsen studied as his model was actually half-Russian.
Figures of Several Centuries
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He was charming, erudite and civilised.
Times, Sunday Times
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We must build more densely - which is also the way to a civilised urban life and less commuting by car.
Times, Sunday Times
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Many things that were not to be tolerated in a civilised society in 1968 are now accepted - if not always welcomed.
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The police exist to contain and civilise our moments of savagery; prosecutors exist to ask questions with an open mind.
Times, Sunday Times
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Most governments in the civilised world are constitutionally bound by checks and balances to ensure they don't do something idiotic.
Times, Sunday Times
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Rationally, most people understand that civilised life in this country faces a heartless and implacable foe who is prepared to strike as often and as cruelly as possible.
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It is about giving assent, support and legitimacy at a transnational level to a most uncivilised field of research.
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The Japanese troops working there were almost all technical personnel, and were mostly reasonable and fairly civilised men.
Times, Sunday Times
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All civilised states recognise this assertion of personal liberty and privacy.
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For several centuries there was prevalent over the whole of civilised Europe a most extraordinary superstition concerning the small Arctic bird resembling, but not so large as, the common wild goose, known as the barnacle or bernicle goose.
Bygone Beliefs
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This all led to uncivilised evening drinks at The Local, before wobbling home in an uncertain manner.
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One is brown, loose, civilised, and there is this whirlwind next to it - the other - as black as the girl's rebellious hair.
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I do not wish to exclude the possibility that the discretion may be used in extradition proceedings founded upon evidence which, though technically admissible, has been obtained in a way which outrages civilised values.
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Sometimes, in momentary reaction from the pent-up feelings of indignation and revolt, which were chronic with me during my imprisonments, I could have laughed out loud at the imbecility and pathos of human fallibility, that civilised (?) educated beings could continue such processes by way of ridding themselves from the dangers and active harmfulness of crime.
Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences
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The question is: will acting out a social comedy in this colony really help to civilise them?
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Traditional African masquerade, dating back to the era before emancipation, used rags, paint, and spears to portray an image of a miserable, uncivilised past.
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Occasional outbreaks of colourful language aside, the exchanges seemed surprisingly civilised.
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This fact alone should ensure that we as a civilised country treat animals with more compassion.
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Civilised life, as it advances, does not seem to have so much repose in it, that we need begin early in exciting the mind, for fear of the man being too lethargical hereafter.
Friends in Council — First Series
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They sat on their civilised behinds and laughed as the frightened face of the woman they'd nicknamed The Pig stared from their screens like a rabbit caught in headlights.
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WiFi in airport departure lines is the mark of civilised countries.
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But it, the face in the picture, is overcivilised, whereas Brigit looked untamed and resentful.
The Halo
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I asked Grattan who they were; he thought, from the bright-coloured blankets and the buffalo-scalp cap, that they might be Cumanches, but wasn't sure-I may tell you now, from a fairish experience of Indians, that they're a sight harder to identify by appearance than, say, Zulu regiments or civilised soldiers; they ain't consistent in their dress or ornament.
Isabelle
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The Empire, mediately or immediately, must become the universal educator, news-agent, book-distributor, civiliser-general, and vehicle of imaginative inspiration for its peoples, or else it must submit to the gravitation of its various parts to new and more invigorating associations.
An Englishman Looks at the World
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The first chapter describes enlightened attempts to civilise two boys who seem to have been ineducable.
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Of all rules of public law it is the one which does most to prevent the whole of the civilised world being brought under an iron-bound theory of government.
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The scheme was abandoned and he was dumped in a cage at a research institute, alongside other less civilised chimps.
Times, Sunday Times
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I turned in shortly before dawn feeling not half bad; it was snug and jolly to see Susie snoring away in the dim candle-light, with one fine tit peeping out among the frills; I nibbled away until she squirmed into wakefulness, whereafter we set to partners, celebrating the first civilised bed we'd occupied since the Planter's Hotel, if you like.
Isabelle
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But it takes time for manners and mores to civilise the new tech.
Times, Sunday Times
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Europeans are so much more civilised than the trigger-happy cowboys across the pond.
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On the face of it, it is a little undiplomatic for a Foreign Office Minister to suggest that the British have a monopoly on rational and civilised behaviour.
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And that is a travesty of justice by any civilised standard.
The Sun
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That would do a whole lot more for civilised and democratic behaviour than abject capitulation to these self-evident hypocrites.
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Why fly to Biddy Salamander and Bulkabra, when the Queen of Beauty and Count D'Orsay have equally urgent claims on the attention and sympathies of the civiliser?
Punch, or the London Charivari. Volume 1, July 31, 1841
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In the same chapter we are told "de quodam viro divite tenacissimo" -- of a very hard-fisted rich fellow -- a term thoroughly significant in civilised times.
The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author
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For several centuries there was prevalent over the whole of civilised Europe a most extraordinary superstition concerning the small Arctic bird resembling, but not so large as, the common wild goose, known as the barnacle or bernicle goose.
Bygone Beliefs
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They wanted unique outfits and no one dresses like her anywhere in the civilised world.
The Sun
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We need to find common moral ground within the civilised world over and beyond the hatred and intolerance of the religious chauvinisms and nationalisms of the past.
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That's the countervailing force that impels us to behave in a civilised manner and reach out peaceably to others, even others perceived as alien.
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Providing you never intend to move again, and you can keep it all acceptably clean and civilised then why on earth shouldn't you surround yourself with the accumulations of your life?
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Capable of travelling many thousands of times the speed of light, and holding a conversation at the same time, a Culture GSV has to be the ultimate in civilised transport.
MIND MELD: The Best Spaceships in Written Science Fiction
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A pleasant smile and a willing spirit melt barriers and keep communications civilised.
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Those macabre photographs that benumbed the civilised world were worth a million words each.
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This is meant to be a tolerant, civilised country that respects each other.
Times, Sunday Times
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In an apology last week to the BBC over Malema's outburst, the Afrikanerbond wrote that millions of honest, decent, hard-working and civilised South Africans bore the brunt of Malema and the ANCYL's agenda which, it claimed, was to "polarise" South Africa with "renewed racism".
News24 Top Stories
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I cannot decide whether I should have followed my wife and friends to their respective boudoirs at a civilised hour, or shared the experience live with the other fanatics who stayed up to witness the end of an era.
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But, on the way, nestling in the very heart of Europe, perfectly civilised and strifeless, jewelled all over with freedom, is another country which he has not visited since his accession -- a country which, oddly enough, none but I seems to expect him to visit.
Yet Again
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He also wants to spend time working on how to civilise, or 'turn' as he puts it, social media.
Times, Sunday Times
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The campaign has abounded in mutual accusations of uncivilised behaviour.
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Public services provide the glue that holds a civilised society together.
Times, Sunday Times
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An eye for an eye is no way to run a civilised justice system.
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For most of us, it's a place for a sandwich, a snooze or a sunbathe - but Princes Street Gardens now offers a more civilised way to lunch.
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Imbued with the poetics of nature, comfort, wisdom and healing, it also recalls the heroic curved timber bridges of earlier eras that helped to link and civilise Canada's vast hinterland.
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And, indeed, Virgil's theme here is less the development of a character or the portraiture of a hero than the idealisation of the people of the Italy which he loved so well, who needed only a divinely guided leader and civiliser to enter upon the glorious career that was in store for them.
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
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All civilised states recognise this assertion of personal liberty and privacy.
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In any other civilised country, the head of the phone company would be delivered up on a platter for these serious infrastructure failures.
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I believe it is to enable us to lead a civilised domestic life where we can conduct a sociable existence while at the same time providing hospitality for our friends and family.
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He recently criticised the use of powhiri at official functions, saying "a half-naked man poking his tongue out" was not a civilised way to greet foreign dignitaries.
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And it needs friends in the media who are civilised enough to give the oxygen of publicity to great art.
Times, Sunday Times
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That such a civilised, distinguished nation should be overcome by such bestial lunacy, that perfectly decent people turned into monsters… It reminds us what a savage species we are.
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I am, however, interested in a civilised, level-headed discussion, and I will take an active interest in what you all write.
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The degradation of public discourse, the spread of cynicism, makes our collective life less civilised.
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Envy was a civilised emotion, attendant upon some degree of security and the possession of things strictly unnecessary to survival.
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After living in that atmosphere of nebulous cosmopolitanism which is what we hypercivilised people have created in the world, it is everything to get back to the barbaric simplicity of the old love for country.
Gossamer 1915
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But I wonder how many young chaps nowadays, in this civilised twentieth century, would know how to go about it, if they were planked down, near penniless and with their boots letting in, on a foreign soil, and asked to dispose of a fine-strung mustee woman whose depression and nervousness were growing steadily as the crisis approached?
Flash For Freedom
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A lot of very civilised, if slightly tipsy, wine tasting and cheese eating followed.
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See! Their Roos, Snakes and Crocs are civilised ..... they can even allow them to parage around the streets!
PCLinuxOS-Forums
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The words sound very outspoken and authoritative, but are really shadow-boxing: nobody who is sufficiently civilised in approach to be reading such a book is likely to disagree with them.
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The arguments used to support a ban on hunting undermine this basis of a civilised society.
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Full of this idea, the scientific gentleman seized his pen again, and committed to paper sundry notes of these unparalleled appearances, with the date, day, hour, minute, and precise second at which they were visible: all of which were to form the data of a voluminous treatise of great research and deep learning, which should astonish all the atmospherical wiseacres that ever drew breath in any part of the civilised globe.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
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A civilised society would clearly give better legal options and improve the present barbaric practice.
Times, Sunday Times
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I have always believed in fair play and in justice; and those sorts of shootings were a disgrace to any civilised community.
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It was not the city which dreamed, but its overcivilised in. habitants.
The Weird Of The White Wolf
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Tony Marlow says Britain has become too civilised and doesn't punish offenders properly.
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Acting on its own, the state cannot civilise people or enforce civilised behaviour.
Times, Sunday Times
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I suspect that most rational New Zealanders would argue that this is not ethical development at all, but barbaric and uncivilised, and that these beliefs have no place with a State broadcaster.
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As a result, big bars ruled, and even the Lord Mayor, Clover Moore, agreed there was "a real call for smaller bars supporting a diverse, intimate and more civilised drinking culture".
Ashes fans' guide: Sydney's new drinking dens
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Some of us have grown tired of the insulting “Essex jokes”, generally aimed at women, which have no place in civilised society and certainly not in the national newspaper of a political party which professes to deplore discrimination and derogatory comments.
Essex girls look to Bob Russell to defend their honour
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A civilised society should be able to come up with a code of modern morality without recourse to illiberal and authoritarian lawmaking.
Times, Sunday Times
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What can be done in the face of such appalling loss of life and collapse of civilised standards?
Times, Sunday Times
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Their first scene is, on the surface, a model of civilised restraint, but in their last scene she goads and humiliates him to the point where he explodes into sudden - and lethal - violence.
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The pure scientist is considered socially acceptable in some perfectly civilised colleges.
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This is to counter the dumb who don't think they are dumb, and are at the same time crude, uncivilised and unreasonable.
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Civilised behaviour is the key to appearing middle class, so don't binge drink, never swear and don't do anything ostentatious.
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They must tame it, accompany it, humanise it, civilise it.
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We adapt and suppress our needs in order to behave in a civilised fashion.
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Those who don't like boys-only schools would say they are barbaric and uncivilised.
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Savagery and barbarism were contemptuous expressions used by ‘civilised’ people.
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Haas was quite pleasant, very civilised.
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the late French historian Georges Duby saw Gothic art as in part a reaction to the Cathar heresy, a civilised counterpart of the bloody Albigensian crusade.
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Hence the virginal Elizabeth, who was chaste and civilised where her queenly predecessor was promiscuous and barbaric.
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There's now a more civilised way to float across the countryside.
Times, Sunday Times
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Though she had known him less than two days, Dorethea considered Mr Shrewsbury to be wonderfully urbane and civilised.
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His evil and bestial nature stands directly opposed to our just and civilised culture.
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And the mission to civilise that was the colonial kind of project is now a mission to civilise France's own population.
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Using farm animals for entertainment is unacceptable in a modern, civilised society.
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It is the way we have tried to civilise the world and we must not forget that.
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While as a civilised society we must never forget the genocides of history, we equally have to avoid the illegitimate use of such memories to justify immoderate propping-up of doubtful political systems.
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Again Magnusson says that Scott tried ‘to manipulate history to suit the Enlightenment views: the 1707 Act of Union had brought Scotland into the comity of civilised nations’.
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I am, however, interested in a civilised, level-headed discussion, and I will take an active interest in what you all write.
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The Japanese troops working there were almost all technical personnel, and were mostly reasonable and fairly civilised men.
Times, Sunday Times
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It tells a story, too, that is very much of our times: that of bearing witness, from the eerie comfort of a new world, to a past for which the present must dwell in an endless, civilised purgatory.
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Being in a rush to get out this evening we sat Tommy at the table whilst we were eating and all had a civilised meal.
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We want a civilised human being at either end of the competition and a savage in the middle.
Times, Sunday Times
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Rome had been for more than two centuries strangely neglected by the rulers who in her name lorded it over the civilised world.
Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation
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From her experience in the east she regarded the Russians as barbarians, unused to the basic norms of civilised life.
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There's now a more civilised way to float across the countryside.
Times, Sunday Times
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That would do a whole lot more for civilised and democratic behaviour than abject capitulation to these self-evident hypocrites.
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In the old days, the priests used to immolate their sacrifices at the shrine of Huitzilopochti on top of the temple mayor of Tenochtitlan, but we're more civilised than that.
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No civilised country should deem their use lawful.
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_ Not fit, perhaps, for anything else belonging to what we call civilised life.
Gryll Grange
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Animals civilise a building, and it is a pity that the Prime Minister's wife, no cat-lover, was blamed for the dismissal of Humphrey, a dignified and sagacious mouser.
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Envy was a civilised emotion, attendant upon some degree of security and the possession of things strictly unnecessary to survival.
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Finish off an evening with a civilised macchiato.
Times, Sunday Times
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Greece was ceasing to be an unconnected crowd of little separate communities; unconsciously it was preparing itself for a larger destiny, that of conqueror and civiliser of East and West.
A Short History of Greek Philosophy
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Last week, it emerged that even those trusted with getting children safely across roads outside school are bearing the brunt of increased aggression and uncivilised road behaviour by some motorists.
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Here resides another outdated cliche: that Scottish cricket is a gentle, civilised pursuit, replete with cries of ‘Well played, laddie.’
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Allied to the aforegoing is the doctrine of separation of powers which is traditionally maintained in civilised countries and which has also been maintained in the Interim Constitution.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Nevertheless, it is childish to pretend that it is a crime in the Boers to continue fighting, or that they have done anything to disentitle them to the usages of civilised warfare.
With Rimington
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But shame it is that in our own civilised country the black cat and broomstaff should be considered as conductors to and from the regions of departed spirits.
Wanderings in South America
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The judge said he could scarcely believe that three so-called civilised young men could behave as they did.
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Brownsville was about the rowdiest town of Texas, which was the most lawless state in the Confederacy; but they declared they had never seen an inoffensive man subjected to insult or annoyance, although the shooting-down and stringing-up systems are much in vogue, being almost a necessity in a thinly-populated state, much frequented by desperadoes driven away from more civilised countries.
Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863
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And that is a travesty of justice by any civilised standard.
The Sun
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He was a towering intellect and a very civilised man.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is the sophisticated, mondaine, civilised and generally rather unmilitary Germany described so well by Sybilla Bedford in The Legacy.
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The uncivilised vampires are described somewhat differently, their walk being "catlike" and "on the edge of shifting into a crouch" (TW18).
Twilight Lexicon » Appearance
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The paragraph holds luminously good still for either Bobby – Jones or Moore:What we talk about here is not the hero as sportsman, but that something which a civilised community hungered for and found: the best performer in the world who was also hero as human being, the gentle, wholly self-sufficient male.
My dream job as Bobby Moore's minder for a fortnight | Frank Keating
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Perhaps these plucky jobsworths are all that stands between civilised society and post - rock revolution!
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Government should use civilised stratagems to arrest those who fall short of the law.
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Our programme on the labour market and employment conditions is aimed at creating a democratic work-environment, guaranteeing a living wage, multi-skilling of workers, as well as civilised working hours and rights of women workers.
ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE!
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There is something grotesque about a civilised society failing to give people clean enough air.
Times, Sunday Times
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Umbrellas may be 'hedged about' by cobweb statutes; I will not swear it is not so; there may exist laws that make such things property; but sure I am that the hissing contempt, the loud-mouthed indignation of all civilised society, 'would sibilate and roar at the bloodless poltroon who should engage law on his side to obtain for him the restitution of a-- lent Umbrella!
Umbrellas and Their History
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Their tone was civilised and their message couched in terms that offered their beleaguered leader their support.
Times, Sunday Times
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Public services provide the glue that holds a civilised society together.
Times, Sunday Times
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The ANC will be shocked to discover that the Afrikaner nation, with its history as the civiliser of southern Africa ... will not allow this," the CP said.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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A civilised leader must eschew violence.
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This week we might need to be reminded that if there is one single defining mark of a civilised society it is the ability to have fresh, clean and uncontaminated water.
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Secondly, not all of the developed western world might be seen as civilised.
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The detachment is in the mountains far away from the civilised world.
History of Stalag XVIII A
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He is a man of plain words, impatient with metaphor, fascinated by the structure of the land and evidence of early attempts to cultivate and civilise it.
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It isn't civilised to draw attention to what divides the human race.
