Sentences with phrase «for civilized»

Fur trapping in the early 19th Century was a perilous task but luxurious pelts would fetch a handsome price on the open market so hunters were willing to take to the wilderness to bring them back for the civilized world.

If they suggest take all of the money out without a good reason, I would seriously consider whether that lawyer shares your desire for a civilized divorce.

Holmes wrote that «taxes are what we pay for civilized society» and that «great cases like hard cases make bad law.»

«Rhetoric, according to a classical tradition familiar to Dante, is essential for civilized life when used wisely.

Exhausted by having to part churning seas of art advisers and would - be collectors without a sign from God, I departed for the civilized environs of the Marian Goodman Gallery, which was screening three films by Tacita Dean — one is a recent portrait of David Hockney — and showing chalk paintings and photographs of California clouds installed, appropriately, near the ceiling.

Freud said that an individual's ambition can never be fully satisfied in civilization, so the individual must choose between pursuing their passion with hardship or compromising for civilized life.

Brian puts down his rock and Corey puts down his sword for a civilized chat about their love of gaming.

Please join us for a civilized and respectful in - real - life conversation about these and other topics.

This was just plain fun to write, because I was able to get in a few deserving zings at food that, I don't care what other people say, isn't fit for civilized consumption.

«Hardened canine criminals meet their match in Evans (The Evans Guide for Civilized City Canines), who here outlines methods and philosophies likely to reform a rogue's gallery of aggressive, unresponsive, non-house-trained animals marauding as man's best friends.

Anglophiles who frequent the British cinema for the civilized ambience of such films as The Remains of the Day and Howards End should consider this fair warning:

Once again, it's evident that we need to look for the civilized version, the one you can proudly bring home to Mom.

There are no plans for a civilized budget, only a budget that knows how to borrow and tax and borrow and tax.»

The US did not have any domestic laws pertaining specifically to unlawful combatants, so the problem presented would be to create a new type of rules for civilized warfare that used the spirit of the Geneva Convention and applied to asymmetric wars.

Jon, this is the reason I come on this site, for civilized intelligent discourse about our beloved club.

To celebrate my totalitarian form of parenting I thought I'd share with you a recipe for a civilized, proper dinner that celebrates the end of summer in all its glory that my children inevitably got their chance to say «No» to.

The only way to stay free and safe in a land of opportunity is to give back — pay for the essential services and infrastructure necessary for a CIVILIZED life.

But despite the immense self - evidence of self - identity through time for all civilized peoples, we have seen that it is not an ontological necessity.

Particularity is the basis for generality, just as individual moments of experience are the basis for man, and man is the basis for a civilized epoch.

Imputing responsibility has always posed a problem for civilized man.

Would the Russians and other Orthodox then be ready for civilized dialogue with Western Christians, leading to reunion?

Of the many issues yet to be adequately investigated in this area is the principal question concerning the metaphysical foundation, and thereby justification, for civilized society according to Whitehead's organic cosmology.

The state knows something of mercy; for no civilized penal code is without its gesture toward the possible restoration of the wrongdoer to society.

Miller is trying to make the point that organized religion is morality for a civilized culture.

This distinction is foundational for any civilized legal system and is also a matter of natural justice.

It then produces the dislocations and confusions marking the advent of new ideals for civilized effort» (AI 279).

This is a blog for civilized discourse, not immature garbage.

Pessimism recurs, as the History develops into a parallel threnody: for the lost world of Byzantium and for the civilized values of Runciman's own.

Yet once granted that a genuine form of the mythical vision remains a possibility for civilized or historical man, and that myth itself is a creation of the human imagination, then it follows that a private myth is not only a possibility but is indeed the inevitable form by which a new or revolutionary myth will first appear in history.

Anyone who follows biblical morals is unfit for a civilized society.

There is some lovely, poetic material in the Quran, and a few areas of guidance for civilized behavior; but the claims of a supernatural basis for it are in no way substantiated (as is the case also with the Bible).

I also know taxes are necessary for civilized society, but that doesn't make prying a third of my income from my stingy mitts any more joyous.

«Taxes are what we pay for a civilized society» (U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes).

Not exact matches

And I think this country, any civilized country, should have no tolerance for rape.»

Say you're the flip - flop wearing nerd with a comic - con T - shirt and a haircut that says «past - due,» and you really have no business addressing more civilized audiences, except that you're a genius and you have something to offer that would change lives for the better.

Columbia University economist Jeffery Sachs charged that in pulling U.S. support for the Paris accord, Trump was not only forfeiting global leadership, but leading America right out of the civilized world.

With no concept of how civilized human society behaves in the developed world, they bring their crass ignorance to the party and ruin it for all the other tranquillity - seeking customers who've parted with the same chunk of change that they have.

This CNN forum, and the vitriol it has induced, is a good example of precicesly why a civilized society keeps religion out of the public forum... (and for the record, the high stress atmosphere of an airplane is clearly a particularly bad forum to inject religion).

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.

As Pete reports, the statesman Gates explains that Congress (where both parties are very well organized) really wasn't good enough for him or any decent and civilized person.

Eye for an eye was a «civilized» control of the society at that time.

You mention «uncivilized people,» yet the concept of posting a war trophy for people to mock and ridicule, is less civilized that even al Qaeda.

«Worship» is a primitive paradigm that may work for nomadic goat herders but is repugnant and a perversion in civilized society whether it be hollywood worship, sports team worship, political party worship or deity worship.

Even though we modern, civilized Christians typically do not kill and murder those with whom we disagree, there is an area of our lives today where we still put others to death for the sake of our religion.

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.

Invigorated by these experiences, they broke into Palestine and carved out territories for themselves at the expense of the settled and civilized population.

Hamed Shafia, his father, Mohammed, and his mother, Tooba Mohammed Yahya, were sentenced to life in prison for murder, with Judge Robert Maranger excoriating their «twisted notion of honor, a notion of honor that is founded upon the domination and control of women, a sick notion of honor that has absolutely no place in any civilized society.»

The Bible says the same kinds of things about people who don't worship the one true god... it even tells you you to kill people who try to convert you... the difference is that we have grown as a society and we no longer murder people for what they believe... islam hasn't caught up with the rest of us... it's a problem and threat to the civilized word.

Morally, man is evil, and becoming more so as he grows more civilized: what grounds have we for hoping that he will improve?

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.