Voorbeelden van civilize

• In other words, the 'imperial order' has existed in non-western areas, where most of those nations were not recognized as civilized throughout the nineteenth century.

• They do not merely speak for a straightforward attempt to make the civilizing power of science operative in the reader's mind.

• There is an acceptance within the text that increasingly the local state took control over the civilizing mission previously exercised by a ubiquitous voluntary sector.

• Various "civilized" measures to suppress differences and heterogeneity in the use of space were only provoking resistive spatial practices among the residents.

• A prime target, not surprisingly, is the ubiquitous and mostly condescending celebration of women for their "civilizing" influence on men.

• The fundamental distinction between civilized and barbarian nations meant that while this perceived society was international, in no sense was it global.

• Their task was to convince doubting officials that they, too, could be counted as agents of civilizing progress.

• The myth portrayed the transformation of a violent abduction into the civilized social alliance sanctioned by the marriage bond.

• The professional architects of the time were also enthusiastic about taking part in this process as civilizing agents.

• Because they think that it is for people that are not civilized.

• The great healing effect of publicity is that by revealing men's motives it civilizes them.

• Given this human/animal boundary, it was only a guided rational approach that could make the boy fully civilized and therefore fully human.

• Because of its antiquity, its unpredictability and its global presence, the disease found a prominent place in the colonial civilizing mission.

• Let us say that a subset of a topological space is civilized if it is closed, has only finitely many components, and each of its components is path-connected.

• The alien is revealed to be merely a lost, primitive version of the familiar, and imperial power flows less from civilizing the savage than from reviving the inner barbarian.