There is a tranquility to any garden like this, a civilized order uncompromised by deterioration.

The Urd, united under their king Gore, had risen in defiance of all civilized order vowing to extinguish or make slaves of other nations.

That's only part of the original Aeschylean equation, in which savage devastation is worked through to a more civilized, humane order.

Many people believe that there are schoolrooms and football grounds where civilized order is forever on the verge of breaking down.

Claggart's evil destroyed Billy's innocence, and now French chaos has brought down Vere and his civilized order.

Some physicians ignored colleagues who felt corsets were a medical necessity because of women's biology and the needs of civilized order.

"There is in international law a concept of universal crimes, crimes against the civilized order, that any nation may prosecute," Mr. Rubin said.

Besides economic growth and technological progress in this country, the winning of the West symbolizes the nation's expansive optimism and its commitment to civilized order.

Satan, however, was man's invention, a name for the force that seeks to overthrow the civilized order of things.