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Egypt, Donnelly wrote, was their colony, where they tried to civilize wild tribes.
There is clearly a major confrontation at the moment about how we in Australia find our own way to civilize global capital.
The teens take the opportunity to refine and civilize the primitive man, and to give him the appreciation of modern education.
Both responded to the story of Rome as the endlessly fascinating adventures of a people who thought of themselves as having a mission to civilize the world.
When he was 7, beautiful baldheaded Sunny and her beautiful blond-haired mother moved to a farmhouse near his home and began to civilize him.
An Army veteran looks at the fall of Mosul and recalls his own time there trying to civilize the land with guns and money.
Consider it part of the mission to civilize, a necessary part of the process to start solving problems again in Washington.
One of Canada's main roles should be to take the leading role to civilize trade throughout the world.
The task is to civilize investment, to ensure that it is useful and that its benefits are well distributed.
While this type of agreement permits freer trade, it does not usually include rules to civilize that trade.
First because we believe that it will civilize labour disputes as well as the whole approach with regard to labour relations.
Let us choose a multilateral approach and limit bilateral agreements that do not allow for standards to be set to civilize trade.
Mr. Marc Laviolette: That has helped civilize the relationship between the parties.
Cricket was supposed to civilize savages and divert into peaceful channels violent energies that in many places erupted in tribal wars.
The purpose of the 1876 Indian Act was to civilize, christianize and assimilate Aboriginal peoples.
Lastly, Mr. Salama said he shared Mr. Decaux's view that it was better to civilize military tribunals than to demonize them.
We must also civilize it in order to have healthy international competition and clean up the terms of trade.
Caliban, too, must be freed, since Prospero has done what he could to educate and civilize this Natural Man.
They have said that the efforts they made to civilize labour relations have borne fruit.
I wish I thought that Canada's effect was to civilize these negotiations, but I really don't have great confidence in that.
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Examples from Classical Literature
If we could civilize our schools, we should have no mention of legislation by vagary.
Was it possible to teach them right and wrong, to Christianize, or even to civilize them?
A good sceptic is willing to help educate and civilize in a general way, but he will put forth no effort to evangelize.
Ours is continually the task to civilize, to sophisticate, to refine this raw material.
There he laboured to civilize his countrymen, planted and harvested wheat, and kept in touch with Marsden across the Tasman Sea.
Aside from this, there was a general feeling that the attempt to education and civilize the red men at Hampton would be a failure.
The man who would fain civilize the lowliest spot on earth needs something besides wealth for the task.
Some canting hypocrites are whining for us to civilize the Indians.
Was it found necessary to civilize a wild and extensive province?
He looked like some old Roman consul going out to govern and civilize.
You must civilize the world in order to make a better class of purchasers.
We demoralize and we extirpate, but we never really civilize.
Here, Jesuits, Lazarists, and Redemptorists, inspired by the reforming zeal of the Council of Trent, sought to discipline and civilize rural or mountain folk.
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