Example collocations logo

Civilizations in sentence

218 examples of Civilizations in a sentence

On the other hand, there is almost no issue on the global agenda – from Iraq and Afghanistan to Somalia, Iran, and the Arab Spring, and from sustainable development to a dialogue among civilizations – on which Turkey is not playing a visible role.
In short, Carnegie thought that great personal wealth leads to great civilizations.
PARIS -- Everyone everywhere has by now heard about the “clash of civilizations.”
The “clash of civilizations,” basically the West against the rest, is supposed to describe the world as it is.
I believe that the West is a mindset defined by three fundamental traits that cannot easily be found in the so-called Eastern civilizations: a passion for innovation, a capacity for self-criticism, and gender equality.
In most if not all non-Western civilizations, pride and self love exclude self-criticism or at least the criticism of one’s civilization as such.
Of course there must be some Chinese or Muslim Montaigne or Nietzsche, but they would not be considered beacons of their civilizations.
This is not the case in most non-Western civilizations.
Such a debate does take place within all Eastern societies, which leads us to the real clash of civilizations: all societies today are fragmented between Westernizers and non-Westernizers.
This clash within civilizations on what modernization means is more significant than Huntington’s alleged conflict between geographical entities.
For a majority of Europeans, though they have absolutely no sympathy for radical Muslims, be they Sunni or Shia, Israel’s offensive against Hezbollah and its result, the destruction of Lebanon, are seen as self-defeating for Israel and as potentially detonating a clash of civilizations between Islam and the West.
This movement of peoples has little to do with the “clash of civilizations” foreseen by Samuel Huntington.
Some believe that 9/11 ushered in a “clash of civilizations” between Islam vs. the West.
The most important lesson five years after 9/11 is that failure to combine hard and soft power effectively in the struggle against jihadi terrorism will lead us into the trap set by those who want a clash of civilizations.
It is a war that is ideological, theological, and political, a war that cuts across worlds, cultures, and what we are right to call civilizations, from the lost city neighborhoods of France to those areas – for example, Kurdistan, Morocco, Bosnia, and Bangladesh – where enlightened Islam remains alive and well.
The forests fell as civilizations flourished, so the earlier a place became “civilized” the sooner it became deforested.
In the Iranian worldview, there are three great ancient Asian civilizations: Chinese, Indian, and Persian (with Persia being the greatest).
The Mediterranean played a crucial role in the first Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations, was the sea of the Phoenicians, Greeks, and Romans, and was the center of the world first for the Arabs and Barbarians, and later for the Ottomans and the Spanish.
So it is a grave mistake to link modern forms of fundamentalism with the idea of a clash of civilizations.
When Germany and the Vatican quickly recognized Croatia and Slovenia in 1991 and 1992, they reinforced the sense of what the late political scientist Samuel P. Huntington subsequently called a “clash of civilizations.”
The great Eurasian civilizations were all dependent on agriculture and needed to create institutional means of tying labor, which was then scarce, to the land, which was abundant.
Even if we are forced, faute de mieux , to speculate about ancient Indian social life, we must remain true to the common facts of economic and military life among European and Asian civilizations, which imposed similar institutional responses.
This clash of Western civilizations could not be more important.
But today’s terrorist threat is not Samuel Huntington’s clash of civilizations.
Khatami’s proposal for a “dialogue among civilizations” in 2000 was an attempt to open a crack in what he described as the wall of mistrust that continued to separate Iran and the US.
We don’t treasure our historical artifacts, because they remind us of our rich civilizations’ supposed inferiority.
But another, more sympathetic response would be to show that individual rights and notions of freedom are by no means alien to non-Western civilizations.
For radical Islamists (and some Westerners), the rise of Islam sets the scene for a “clash of civilizations,” which they welcome as a polarizing device that will allow them to recruit from the much larger Muslim mainstream.
This view, shared by Trump’s incoming National Security Adviser, General Michael Flynn, plays directly into Islamist militants’ own narrative of a clash of civilizations.
Is this its own form of "clashing civilizations."
BackNext