A nation of hunters can never be formidable to the civilised nations in their neighbourhood.

Now their long war was over and they could get on with the proper concern of civilised nations, which is to prepare for the next one.

It was one of the more disgusting practices employed by the less civilised nations of the world.

Introduce Kurds as a civilised nation in the international arena.

When such improvements have been effected, the inhabitants may be said at once to take their proper place among civilised nations.

China props up the economies of 'civilised' nations in innumerable ways.

In every civilised nation the mass of the people are inert and indifferent.

Millions of children were getting an education 'not worthy of a civilised nation,' he said then.

The attendant system, however, is very different from what one would expect from a civilised and leading industrial nation.

At the end of the 20th century we cannot, as a civilised nation or people, allow this kind of thing to carry on.