Sentences with phrase «generally be civilized»

Yes, they want their children to get good jobs but they also want to have their children develop good characters, appreciate the good life, and generally be civilized human beings.

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This particular item can perhaps be dismissed as an oddity, but its appearance underlines the more general point that the most important intellectual and institutional expressions of the Christian faith, including Rome and Canterbury, have found almost nothing of value to say about the current Middle East crises, and more generally about the West's struggle against militant Islam and terrorism, and the terrifying possibilities now facing the entire civilized world.

But more generally, Postman is worried about why young people «turn away from civilized speech,» and in his view, the right answer is that «the electronic information environment, with television at its center, is fundamentally hostile to conceptual, segmented, linear modes of expression, so that both writing and speech must lose some of their power» (TCA 74).

He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become... In every improved and civilized society this is the state into which the labouring poor, that is, the great body of the people must necessarily fall, unless government takes some pains to prevent it» (The Wealth of Nations Vol.

In addition to being sweeter than a regular lemon, they are generally smaller, with a scent noses more civilized than mine describe as «a spicy bergamot fragrance that tastes and smells more like an herb or a spice.»

The practice of pretending to know what you're talking about is generally frowned upon in civilized society.

But generally, the engine is quiet and the transmission civilized in normal driving.

Collaborative Law is worth considering if some or all of the following are true for you: (a) you want a civilized, rational resolution of the issues, (b) you would like to keep open the possibility of a viable working relationship with your partner down the road, (c) you and your partner will be raising children together and you want the best working relationship possible, (d) you want to protect your children from the harm associated with litigation between parents, (e) you have ethical or spiritual beliefs that place high value on taking personal responsibility for handling conflicts with integrity, (f) you value control and autonomous decision making and do not want to hand over decisions about restructuring your financial and parenting arrangements to a stranger (a judge), (g) you recognize the restricted and often unpredictable range of outcomes and «rough justice» generally available in the public court system and want a more creative and individualized range of choices available to you and your spouse or partner for resolving the issues.

Generally accepted as a more civilized way of resolving conflicts, there has been a lot of interest in incorporating the process of mediation in various forums, especially in family disputes.