Sentences with phrase «be civilized on»

It's this system that enables the 707 - horsepower Hellcat to be civilized on the highway.

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What the president told Republicans, in other words, largely echoed the report's findings — and it makes perfect sense he would do so: killing the hype on both sides of the Keystone debate is the first step toward turning the conversation into a civilized exchange that can lead to compromise.

«Growing a modern media company, it was important to call on the advice of seasoned people,» said Derek Riedle, founder, CEO and publisher at Civilized, a distinctive industry publication aimed at elevating cannabis culture.

Frankly, I find the feedback from other bloggers and commenters is much more civilized than on other platforms (i.e. Seeking Alpha).

Separately, Representative Adam Kinzinger, Republican of Illinois, is circulating a letter among his colleagues, calling on the A.T.F. to re-evaluate bump stocks, which he said had «no place in civilized society.»

Religion is a poison to civilized society, and we need to stop kissing people's butts constantly when they insist on shoving it in our faces at inappropriate times like these guys did on this flight.

You are correct, this world is better off with Religeon because God knows that the average human is not capable of standing on it's own two feet and needs a bit of a cruch in order to act even halfway civilized.

Personally, I think they're just as crazy to die as the not - so - smart bombs — but at the same time I know they rely on the fact most Americans are too civilized to do what we all would * like * to.

It's not hard to see that it is Muslims that are the biggest threat to civilized peace on earth.

This ongoing discrimination & «apartheid» wrought by Muslims extremists on Christians — has gone on for too many years & is unacceptable in a modern and civilized world.

Theo Most civilized countries base their morality on a const!tution and bill of rights and a supreme court to ensure that these standards are maintained, you seem to suppose there are zero safe guards present.

I won't go into great detail about why I oppose this re-definition that most civilized societies have accepted as the normal... based on religious and spiritual basis that marriage was between a man and a woman.

AFFIRM HEREBY that such cooperation must be based on a «Common Word,» requiring that such cooperation must go beyond mutual tolerance and respect, to providing full protection for the rights and liberties to all religious groups in a civilized manner that eschews coercion, bias, and arrogance.

Societies based on Christianity are hands down the most civilized, progressive and afflouent in the world.

In a press release, organizers said the event was focused on promoting Pancasila, Indonesia's state philosophy, which encompasses five basic principles that include belief in one God, just and civilized society, unity and democracy.

I am saying, for one thing, that violence is the general rule for the existence of societies — including the societies that call themselves civilized but have only camouflaged violence by explaining and justifying it and putting a good face on it.

This is carried on by modern Muslims in their countries which are not moral but hopefully not our civilized nations.

Blackmun's opposition to the law is based on the right to privacy, «the most comprehensive of rights and the most valued by civilized men, [namely] the right to be left alone.»

If I was having this discussion with someone on Youtube, I would now be calling you an asshole; but, we try to be more civilized than that here.

There can be little doubt that in civilized societies at the present time the stress is put on living as well as one can in the present moment or for a fairly short future.

All civilized life depends on the process of ordering, and wherever there are designations of position or office within society there will inevitably be classes.

A new U.S. National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, headed by Milton S. Eisenhower, stated: «Violence on television encourages violent forms of behavior, and fosters moral and social values about violence in daily life which are unacceptable in a civilized society.»

In this context, Gandhi stresses the analogy between Collingwood's reformed metaphysics and Strawson's descriptive metaphysics, two conceptions that, on Gandhi's view, have to be rejected.3 A concept of metaphysics such as that of Whitehead necessitates, on the contrary, «the analysis and critical evaluation of scientific presuppositions in connection with presuppositions of other domains of civilized thought (moral, religious, sociological, aesthetic, etc.), so as to arrive at a satisfactory conception of the most fundamental characteristics of all that we encounter in our experience.

Thus the form of Gnostic self - expression can be understood as a consequence of the direct impact of Socratic existence on highly civilized peoples prepared for the axial revolution, but not yet freed from the dominant power of the mythical.

The goal, Vasconcelos said, was «to get back on the track of simple civilized normality» (italics added), that is to say, an eminently traditional and conservative goal.65 It is not surprising that a later educator would judge Vasconcelos's work as minister of education «chaotically inconsistent, its accomplishments much more apparent than real.

For this purpose I shall focus attention on civilized existence, simply acknowledging that the process described was already far advanced before the advent of civilization.

The goal, he said while minister of education, was «to get back on the track of simple civilized normality.»

On all too many occasions, hanging would truly be «too good for him,» but that familiar phrase reminds us how far civilized law restrains itself from meting out thoroughgoing retribution, presumably for reasons that must supersede society's legitimate concern for reciprocity, proportionality and just deserts.

Too bad they are not civilized enough to send drones, fighter jets, million dollar F16s, high - tech missiles raining on apt.

Societies founded on Christianity are by far the most civilized, accomodating, advanced and compassionate in existance... EVER!

The move away from reliance on Yahweh as warrior toward state military institutions is often seen today as a step toward more civilized behavior, but in the biblical view it was clearly a move toward chaos and away from shalom.

It can, in other words, position itself as a pedagogue, upstream of the actual member state legislatures, declaring as a matter of Europe - wide policy what is or is not a human right, and «calling on» member states to bring their legislation into line with what are now the human rights norms that every civilized nation agrees on.

On the other hand, it is certainly the case that a civilized society does not exhibit any type of overriding unity greater than that which is manifest by the many individual efforts of its constituents.

Accordingly, the «order» of a civilized society is «genetically propagated» in terms of commonly accepted and habitually enacted social practices which are passed on from generation to generation, and thus in the most general terms a civilized society is metaphysically constituted as a «social nexus» in a fashion equivalent to that of a Society per se.

If we don't get back on track to educate our future generations to lead the way in science and engineering, the U.S. is going to be relegated to third - world status while other civilized nations leave us in their dust.

Assyria on the middle Tigris was already laying the foundations for that imperial sway which presently was to overrun all the civilized world.

I have read somewhere on the wall of a house and it says, «if undressing is the civilization then animals are the most civilized person in the face of earth»

The efficacy of a civilized society, regardless of its apparent authority in the affairs of individuals, is in reality nothing but the cooperative agency of many persons functioning, either officially or informally, to carry on the daily exercise of accepted practice.

And although it is true that different civilized societies manifest varying degrees of «communal unity» depending on their particular social - historical situation, and / or political orientation, still it is the case that there is a general metaphysical equivalence in this regard.

They have offered a vision that solves the problem of boredom; that solves the problem of our life in community with others and overcomes the pathologies of so - called civilized life, which finds us at each other's throats as often as not; that solves the problem of our body and our personhood, positing a body that is the one we have always known but finally glorified and without its frailties and decay; and that solves the problem of satisfying those infinite desires that nothing now on earth can fulfill.

In A.D. 1500, Islam, supported by the Turks and by various peoples of Central Asia; Confucianism, the system on which the Chinese Empire, larger and more populous and apparently more highly civilized than all of Western Europe, was based; Hinduism, the faith of the majority of the peoples of India, a subcontinent more varied racially and probably more populous and wealthier than fifteenth - century Western Europe; and Buddhism, with extensive followings in Southern, Central, and Eastern Asia, all loomed larger in human affairs than did Christianity.

I don't remember anyone declaring war on Islam, or the the «civilized» world (whatever that is).

On a related note, the remainder of the civilized world believes that 46 % of Americans are stupid.»

Widowed in 1829, he followed his great contemporaries Goethe (1832), Hegel (1831) and Schleiermacher (1834) into eternity on March 8, 1835, mourned by his brother Alexander (who was to survive him for nearly a quarter - century), by his nation and by his friends and admirers throughout the civilized world.

It wreaked havoc on creation and entire communities of indigenous Americans including the Five Civilized Tribes, who were forcibly removed or annihilated based on the assumption that they were an impediment to God's purposes being realized.

August 2011 — The Air Force stops teaching the Just War theory to officers in California because the course is taught by chaplains and is based on a philosophy introduced by St. Augustine in the third century AD — a theory long - taught by civilized nations across the world (except America).

It is conceivable that, apart from such a reaffirmation, there is no possibility of a really civilized life on the global scale that modern conditions require.

I get my health care in Mexico whenever possible and yes, it's a lot more civilized there than here on the matter of health care.

However, as we look around today and ask what conditions seem on the whole to make for happiness in marriage, we are driven to the curious conclusion that the more «civilized people become the less capable they seem of lifelong happiness with one partner» (p. 135) For a marriage to work requires that there «be a feeling of complete equality on both sides; there must be no interference with mutual freedom; there must be the most complete physical and mental intimacy; and there must be a certain similarity in regard to standards of value» (p. 143).

As Martin Malia argued in a series of profound books, culminating in his 1999 Russia Under Western Eyes, there was nothing distinctively Russian about this nihilistic assault on the very pediments of civilized order.