The judicial sentence of death by execution has been present since the formation of the first civilised societies. |
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It is the sophisticated, mondaine, civilised and generally rather unmilitary Germany described so well by Sybilla Bedford in The Legacy. |
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He still manages to capture the divide between civilised and unrepressed society that reflects the dual and tormented soul of Jekyll and Hyde. |
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Using farm animals for entertainment is unacceptable in a modern, civilised society. |
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There is no way that in our modern, civilised society that we can allow this barbaric, medieval practice to continue. |
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Under the hood there's a brawny but ultimately very civilised 2.4-litre engine, outputting 170 hp. |
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Though she had known him less than two days, Dorethea considered Mr Shrewsbury to be wonderfully urbane and civilised. |
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What a civilised way to spend a Sunday morning, a walk on the mountainside by the brooks and streams followed by lunch al fresco. |
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We would begin quietly enough, nodding and saying hello to one another in a civilised way. |
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Government should use civilised stratagems to arrest those who fall short of the law. |
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But maybe the reporter is one of those, and the event strikes him as an aberration during an otherwise civilised conflict? |
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However, for a civilised pre-club swiftie or two, this bar is well worth it. |
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Now we need to apply that partnership further to improve Britain and make it a more civilised place. |
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I am pleased that we are able to undertake a polite, civilised and rational exchange of views. |
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This gives the school a decent chance of operating in a civilised, self respecting environment. |
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Judging by the amount of swearing he didn't do while he was setting it all up I'd say it's a civilised machine. |
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In a supposedly civilised society, people ought to be able to tolerate each other. |
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That's the countervailing force that impels us to behave in a civilised manner and reach out peaceably to others, even others perceived as alien. |
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Occasional outbreaks of colourful language aside, the exchanges seemed surprisingly civilised. |
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Franklin's civilised demeanour is revealed as mere ineffectuality, and he is unable to save the murdered girl, whom he loves. |
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This fact alone should ensure that we as a civilised country treat animals with more compassion. |
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A compassionate and civilised society must find a way to understand and accommodate refugees. |
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They are nasty pieces of work, no doubt, but they are by no stretch of the imagination a threat to civilised society. |
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Both had proved to work equally well in keeping the heathens at bay while the business of civilised men was conducted. |
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They are either totally ignorant or contemptuous of the fundamentals of a civilised judicial system. |
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It is contemptuous in the extreme, and such comments make it almost impossible to respond in a civilised fashion. |
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You get plenty of atmosphere, and all the trimmings, but in the civilised company of a group of convivial adults. |
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The days of the civilised embassy building are over and architectural quality is an irrelevance. |
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Morning coffee and afternoon tea in the Hall are civilised touches evoking more a country house party than a hotel. |
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Europeans are so much more civilised than the trigger-happy cowboys across the pond. |
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It's actually an act of being civilised not because of the element of personal service, but because it exerts control over your creaturely self. |
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It's for the civilised gentlemen of Edinburgh, men like me who relish the finer things in life. |
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It also opens a wider question as to whether civilised societies could so quickly revert to primitive behaviour. |
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In any other civilised country, the head of the phone company would be delivered up on a platter for these serious infrastructure failures. |
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Please, no pushing in the queue, we are all civilised and cultured people, your turn too shall come. |
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University might seem too civilised an environment for fighting, but when you move into digs, you will realise how easy you had it at home. |
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The entirety of this immense and civilised achievement is accessible only in libraries, or to those prepared to spend cash. |
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Legalising voluntary euthanasia will be one step nearer having a truly civilised society. |
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But he is not the only one to find his new hours are not exactly civilised. |
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That would do a whole lot more for civilised and democratic behaviour than abject capitulation to these self-evident hypocrites. |
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Keeping the warring factions behaving in a civilised fashion can be a very difficult job. |
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Hence the virginal Elizabeth, who was chaste and civilised where her queenly predecessor was promiscuous and barbaric. |
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The rising costs of supporting jobseekers through the downturn are a non-negotiable part of a civilised society. |
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Being in a rush to get out this evening we sat Tommy at the table whilst we were eating and all had a civilised meal. |
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It is an affront to normal, decent, peace-abiding people of the civilised world. |
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It could no longer be represented by such straightforward dualities as European versus native, or civilised versus wild. |
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The judge said he could scarcely believe that three so-called civilised young men could behave as they did. |
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Secondly, not all of the developed western world might be seen as civilised. |
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Which is good as it'll be a little more civilised than I've been used to of late. |
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One of the first precepts of any civilised society is respect for law and order. |
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Robbo equalised in the second half, so now I'm waiting for full time, and drinking vodka and lime, which is all rather civilised. |
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I am, however, interested in a civilised, level-headed discussion, and I will take an active interest in what you all write. |
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In a civilised society, it can't be right to allow vulnerable people to effectively starve to death. |
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The worst thing that the civilised world lost sleep over was the impending Millennium. |
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It is the most malicious piece of legislation ever placed on a statute book and it has no place in a civilised country. |
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Either you respect the basic tenets of civilised society, or you face the consequences. |
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From her experience in the east she regarded the Russians as barbarians, unused to the basic norms of civilised life. |
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The arguments used to support a ban on hunting undermine this basis of a civilised society. |
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A lot of very civilised, if slightly tipsy, wine tasting and cheese eating followed. |
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Those macabre photographs that benumbed the civilised world were worth a million words each. |
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First, why does a civilised society tolerate a system by which thugs are, in effect, authorised to biff people? |
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Is there a scheme of moral triage that would sort out this activity on behalf of a responsible, civilised society? |
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Almost disappeared in the mists of time is the era when we complained in a civilised manner. |
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Tearing animals apart for fun shouldn't be part of a civilised and humane society. |
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No, displaying hunting trophies is not particularly civilised, and parading heads on spikes won't encourage much objectivity. |
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They represent the dark side and undesirable aspect of the modern and civilised world. |
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They are not just men sacrificed to expediency, they are not men too civilised for an uncivilised world. |
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A civilised way to round off any day is on the floodlit skating rink in the village centre. |
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It sounds much more civilised than the slanging matches we have in the houses of parliament. |
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The crawl soon gives way to a small collapse chamber where a slither through a narrow slot leads to cave of slightly more civilised proportions. |
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The ancient Romans divided people between civilised and barbarian. |
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This is the basis of a civilised society in which secular law is enforced rarely because responsibility and peaceableness has been written on the hearts of the citizens. |
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On the face of it, it is a little undiplomatic for a Foreign Office Minister to suggest that the British have a monopoly on rational and civilised behaviour. |
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For instance, some gobdaw gets up and says it it not right to have people drinking on out streets and so we have by-laws covering what is or can be a very civilised practice. |
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Of all rules of public law it is the one which does most to prevent the whole of the civilised world being brought under an iron-bound theory of government. |
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The only people that complain about Jordan are women with smaller, saggier chests and new men trying to convince the world how civilised and right-on they are. |
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Their initial struggle for survival soon turns into a desperate and deadly power struggle between two groups, one humanist and civilised, the other savage and militarist. |
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It isn't civilised to draw attention to what divides the human race. |
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It is a betrayal of civilised values and we shall pay dearly for it. |
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WiFi in airport departure lines is the mark of civilised countries. |
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First, the idea that the acme of being civilised is lying around your dining table gassing about culture and politics in a nice city, while the slaves do the washing up. |
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I can attest she is an ace plantswoman and a civilised lady. |
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Susan's party is a very civilised do with wine and nibblies. |
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They sat on their civilised behinds and laughed as the frightened face of the woman they'd nicknamed The Pig stared from their screens like a rabbit caught in headlights. |
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In the old days, the priests used to immolate their sacrifices at the shrine of Huitzilopochti on top of the temple mayor of Tenochtitlan, but we're more civilised than that. |
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Dos conservative is in denial of the evidence by comparison with other civilised, developed countries. |
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I took out a wet wipe and removed the grease the civilised way. |
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The importance of football as a moral educator is that it touches the repressed sources of violence, arouses them, and then counters them with civilised interdicts. |
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Rationally, most people understand that civilised life in this country faces a heartless and implacable foe who is prepared to strike as often and as cruelly as possible. |
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Hare coursing is a complete anathema in a civilised society. |
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We need to find common moral ground within the civilised world over and beyond the hatred and intolerance of the religious chauvinisms and nationalisms of the past. |
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This week we might need to be reminded that if there is one single defining mark of a civilised society it is the ability to have fresh, clean and uncontaminated water. |
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April may be the cruellest month, but I am planning to render it civilised and to take my antibiotics in a regular manner. |
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This part, at any rate, of Robert Owen's social philosophy has commended itself to the practical judgment of the civilised world. |
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Haeckel also believed Negroes were savages and that whites were the most civilised. |
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The racing journalists of that era were notorious for insobriety, indolence and a general lack of civilised priorities. |
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However, the shameful incident not merely reflected that today's civilised society still has stone-hearted people. |
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Pootle around town and the car feels so civilised you might doubt the presence of a monster beneath the bonnet. |
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Being in a civilised country of stage-coaches, I determined to sell my lady friend and be off by the diligence that afternoon. |
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To the horror of the colonisers, the home or metropolitan culture secretly or even publicly may consider the natives more civilised than the barbarised colonisers. |
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There can be something absurd or even melancholy about the open-plan minipalaces some middle-class Britons consider essential for civilised living. |
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A civilised society should always look after the old in the community. |
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Diodorus says that the inhabitants of Cornwall are civilised in manner and especially hospitable to strangers because of their dealings with foreign merchants. |
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But the theme of all these cultural references was that this was a wild and dangerous region, less civilised than Gaul, a place that required additional military vigilance. |
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The politically correct society is the civilised society, however much some may squirm at the more inelegant official circumlocutions designed to avoid offence. |
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That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilised community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. |
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In the refugee camp of Moria, the conditions are in contrast to Kara Tepe, two miles south, where the Syrians live in very basic but more civilised conditions. |
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To Julian this is the end of civilised life as we know it, with Old Harrovians like himself having the bread taken out their mouths by oiks from Hartlepool or Hackney. |
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