Sentences with phrase «which civilised»

Such things, said Nourse LJ, were «the melancholy consequences of debt and improvidence with which every civilised society has been familiar».

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A sense of the sacred, celebration of the liturgy, wonder and gratitude: these are the things in which we need to be re-educated not justfor the joy of living in an enchanted «Liturgical City» but because it is the only way to keep our education humane and our life civilised.

What really confuses me most, however, is how the two - faced, xenophobic, incompetent and irresponsible British footballing media, and authorities, continue to act as supporters of this policy of play which will ultimately (rather naively on their part) conclude with a British national football team NEVER EVER again winning another international tournament as the rest of the footballing world and authorities continue to move on to develop a more civilised game that does not tolerate such physically harmful tactics.

A civilised society should have a system which encourages competition to raise animal welfare standards, not competition to lower them and we should not jeopardise our farming industry simply because of some arbitrary rules set down by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).

He was introduced to an ex-serviceman and family living in tents on Brighton racecourse and found a squat for them — this was the beginning of Brighton's long history of squatting, which is incongruously civilised, with a group in the «80s starting a squatters» estate agency.

She told Labour MPs and supporters: «Everything we're proud of — from the NHS, to the minimum wage, to equality legislation which has civilised our society — is there because we were in Government.

It resulted in Michael Fallon's inane attack on Miliband having stabbed his brother in the back and preparing to do the same to his country — an attack which was not just personal but also questioned the Labour leader's patriotism, an area which should always be out - of - bounds in civilised political discussion.

These are the first pictures taken from inside Halswell House which was transformed from a civilised upper class ball into a mass orgy within a matter of a The best free amateur porn & home made porn blog on the internet.

«The Lobster» is a satire on the subject of our universal obsession with relationships, and our conviction that couplehood is the supreme expression of human happiness, a civilised institution which distinguishes us from the beasts.»

This Mk7.5 Golf GTI drives exactly the same as the previous version, which means it's perhaps the most refined and civilised hot hatch on sale.

The only civilised way to reach Con Dao is by a one - hour flight from Ho Chi Minh City to the main island Con Son (also known as Con Lon or «big island»), which has one central town and a main harbour Ben Dam.

Others would say that the Force is strong with the Galactic Conquest mode, which has you alternating between random, clumsy blasting and Risk-esque turn - based strategy - an elegant diversion for a more civilised age.»

The emergence of modernist primitivism, which radically transformed the trajectory of modernity through its treatment of foreign objects, complicated a dialectical relationship between notions of the «primitive» and the «civilised,» and by extension, between fear and desire.

I guess most motorists over here are a bit more civilised than they are in the rest of the world, so we don't consider it very daring to travel the Binnenweg, which is the quickest route from Rotterdam West to downtown.

I guess most motorists over here are a bit more civilised than they are in the rest of the world, so we don't consider it very daring to travel the Binnenweg, which is the quickest route from Rotterdam West to the Centre.

What is real is that there is that much less fossil fuel available for future generations to enjoy in the manner in which our short span of «civilised» life has been able to.

Being able to earn a living in an industry in which, for the most part, it is civilised, full of the best people and where, chances are, nobody's killing anybody or getting killed but equally, where no - one's exactly saving lives, so everything in proportion

The Court of Appeal judgment, which begins with Lord Justice Longmore's declaration that «Legal aid is one of the hallmarks of a civilised society», is available here.

I now commute by car, which is far more civilised, and drop my children off at school on the way in.

It presages a law captured by the rhetoric of the right to freedom of expression without due regard to the value underlying the particular exercise of that right; a law in which, under the guise of the right to freedom of expression, the «right» to offend can be exercised without responsibility or restraint providing it does not cause a disruption or disturbance in the nature of public disorder; a law in which an impoverished amoral concept of «public order» is judicially ordained; a law in which the right to freedom of expression trumps — or tramples upon — other rights and values which are the vital rights and properties of a free and democratic society; a law to which any number of vulnerable individuals and minorities may be exposed to uncivil, and even odious, ethnic, sexist, homophobic, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, and anti-Islamic taunts providing no public disorder results; a law in which good and decent people can be used as fodder to promote a cause or promote an action for which they are not responsible and over which they have no direct control; a law which demeans the dignity of the persons adversely affected by those asserting their right to freedom of expression in a disorderly or offensive manner; a law in which the mores or standards of society are set without regard to the reasonable expectations of citizens in a free and democratic society; and a law marked by a lack of empathy by the sensibilities, feelings and emotional frailties of people who can be deeply and genuinely affronted by language and behaviour that is beyond the pale in a civil and civilised society.

[54] It has its roots in the classificatory systems imposed on us, measuring the extent to which we had become «civilised» or remained «tribal».