Example Sentences

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Premier Gentiloni tweeted Friday that “Italy remembers Bruno Gulotta and Luca Russo and gathers tight around their families. Freedom will conquer the barbarianism of terrorism.”

From Washington Times • Aug. 18, 2017

At The New Yorker, it is a copy editor’s duty to deploy the serial comma, along with lots of other lip-smacking bits of punctuation, as a bulwark against barbarianism.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 17, 2017

Bush calls for bipartisanship and issues a statement that barbarianism is a long-term problem, no quick solutions, the answer is education.

From Time Magazine Archive

Not until then will it be possible to show in their true light both the transition from barbarianism to civilization and the striking contrast between them.

From The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Engels, Friedrich

Yet but for these schemes of wealth and power the world would relapse into barbarianism; it is they and not Christianity which have created and preserved civilisation. 

From The Fair Haven by Streatfeild, R. A. (Richard Alexander)