John Paul II told the European Union at the time that it was “a beacon of civilization.”
Instead, it would return European civilization back to a period of darkness not witnessed since the Middle Ages.
They pointed to a common claim: that at some point in distant history there was a civilization of giants.
Crawford leads them in plunging back into the river whose waters fed the first civilization.
Indeed, red — because of its vibrancy and richness — has served as a powerful symbol since the beginning of civilization.
As a matter of fact, "civilization" never remains long in the same spot.
All this had been changed after they had become exposed to the civilization of Egypt.
What, then, is civilization in the economy of the human animal?
Land, I warn't in no hurry to git out and buck at civilization again.
The distinguishing device of civilization and enlightenment.
1704, "law which makes a criminal process civil," from civilize + -ation. Sense of "civilized condition" first recorded 1772, probably from French civilisation, to be an opposite to barbarity and a distinct word from civility. Sense of a particular human society in a civilized condition, considered as a whole over time, is from 1857. Related: Civilizational.