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Example sentences for: civilizing

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The West's civilizing role seems to involve the destruction, for the first time since Hitler, of Europe's most beautiful cities.
In his best core-curriculum name-dropping style, Will compared Miss Manners on the civilizing power of social convention to Plato, Burke, Lincoln, Metternich, the Founding Fathers, and Pope Pius IX.
--leader (possibly) of the civilizing Forces.
Led by the Southern-born Ulrich Phillips, whose American Negro Slavery (1918) was the standard work in the field for decades, leading academic historians portrayed slavery as a benevolent, paternalistic institution that benefited blacks by civilizing them.
She and three young woman companions brought a civilizing influence to the harshness of the beleaguered settlement.