Sentences with phrase «european civilisation»

The prime minister doodled love letters to his girlfriend as the cabinet discussed Ireland, and European civilisation tottered over the brink.

The columns of paint in his ongoing series Doric — now touring Europe — evoke ancient Greek architecture in order to celebrate the contribution Hellenic culture has made to European civilisation.

But on the whole, during many generations, there has been a gradual decay of religious influence in European civilisation.

The equal dignity of all human beings, the freedom of the act of faith as the root of all the other civil freedoms, -LSB-...] are likewise central elements of the Christian Revelation that continue to model the European Civilisation.

The religious aspects of the Jesuit missions were inimical to Enlightenment philosophes, but the story of the reducciones nevertheless helped thinkers such as Montesquieu to articulate new ideals as, in Imbruglia's words, «the creation of a utopian society became the mission of European civilisation.»

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Before that time there existed Anglo - saxons and Germans, French and Normans, Italians and Danes: but during the Crusades the new concept of «Western civilisation», a cause common to all European nations alike, was created; and it was the hatred of Islam that stood as godfather behind the new creation... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/shiatalk/message/30296

This understanding of nature is the unique achievement of our own Western European Catholic civilisation.

After university I spent a summer exploring Mayan pyramid sites in Central America - another much under researched civilisation who developed one of the most accurate calendars and astronomical charts until the modern computer age and built palaces and pyramids on a par with the European classical period.

Appearing on his doorstep, he says he loves European culture and civilisation but there should be no confusion with that and a political project that is «basically being going on for decades, which I think is in real danger of getting out of proper democratic control».

A tree - ring history of European climate has uncovered several links between climate and the rise and fall of civilisations, including Rome.

A detailed record of 2500 years of European climate has uncovered several links between changing climate and the rise and fall of civilisations.

Set across two centuries of bloody historical warfare from 280 B.C. to 25 B.C, Field of Glory 2 has you fighting for control of the Mediterranean Sea, the centre of European power at the time, as you endeavour to rule over the ancient civilisations that dominated the region at the time.

This award celebrates major new museum buildings, renovations and reopenings, as well as those museums that have sprung up from scratch — such as the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations (MuCEM) in Marseilles.

Kenneth Clark's fabled 1969 «Civilisation,» inspiration for the current TV project, was limited to European art, with an occasional nod to the United States, and looked almost exclusively at white male artists, architects and writers.

The nature - based faiths of ancient civilisations and indigenous tribes melded with Christianity, European values and animist beliefs from Africa.

McGlade highlights that non-Aboriginal society has yet to acknowledge the traumatic impacts of the sexual assault on Aboriginal children which was part and parcel of the European project of «civilisation».