Or maybe they did, but didn't realise it, and somehow switched them to unicameral in the process of trying to "civilise" them. ❋ Amuchmoreexotic (2008)
In principle this was no different from the arrogance which convinced Joao III of Portugal that so long as there was an African not in bondage, there was an African who remained to be subjected to slavery, or the British, who knew it as a matter of fact that they had a manifest destiny to "civilise" the "primitive" African natives. ❋ Unknown (2004)
On assiste a une interruption brutale de l'volution de cette mdecine avec l'arrive du pouvoir colonial qui interdisait la pratique soit disant que la mdecine "civilise" de la mtropole tait bien suprieure. ❋ Unknown (1991)
This is taken advantage of to 'civilise' the African with a view to making him a perpetual minor. ❋ Unknown (1944)
As the African accepted none of these measures to 'civilise' him without a struggle, the Trustees had always been worried by his prospects as long as the ❋ Unknown (1944)
According to Survival, when British colonial forces failed to pacify the tribes through violence in the 19th century, they sought to "civilise" them by capturing many and keeping them in an institution. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In one episode he tries to "civilise" his tenants. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The report, widely current in the Sanjak and Slavonic borderlands, that so soon as Austria was ready to move she would cause to be got up a massacre of Christians of sufficient magnitude to compel her to go to the rescue, and make Europe give her another mandate to "civilise" Balkan lands, occurred to my mind; more especially as in 1906 many Austrians in Bosnia had boasted to me that they meant to be in Saloniki, under the Austrian flag, by November 1909. ❋ Mary Edith (1909)
a matter of fact that they had a manifest destiny to "civilise" the "primitive" ❋ Unknown (2004)
Kenneth SmithNewbury, Berkshire• If David Cameron's ambition – well hidden before he became PM – of putting all public services out to tender becomes a reality, then we face the end of proper democratic accountability for those services which civilise our society and underpin our sense of national identity. ❋ Unknown (2011)
We learn to sublimate these urges and to civilise the experience. ❋ Unknown (2011)
That is why faith-based initiatives by Bush are necessary to civilise places outside America. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Bookninja » Blog Archive » “Libraries civilise us all” ❋ Unknown (2010)
"They are the services which civilise our society." ❋ Unknown (2011)
These are services which civilise our society, yet we're saying to these people, 'It's alright for the bankers, we will give them billions of tax-payers money so their banks won't fail, but we don't mind hospitals failing, we don't mind families breaking apart under the stresses and strains of these economic stringencies. ❋ Unknown (2011)
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Old hostilities and rivalries were mentioned by some (one Danish academic described Lund University ashaving been built to "domesticate, civilise and Swedify the Danes"), butmostly there was a sense ofstereotypes weakening with each crossing. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Metaxas's regeneration promoted an inward-looking celebration of 'Greekness', with explicit references to the 'Greek race', whose destiny was to civilise the world that was characteristic of the populist, anti-Venizelist right. ❋ Unknown (2008)
He'd been a soldier, explored in Australia, governed there and in New Zealand, and saw at once that the only hope for southern Africa was to reunite Briton and Boer and civilise the blacks within our borders, which he'd begun to do with schools and hospitals and teaching them trades. ❋ Unknown (2010)
As for the tribes ... look here, I don't say you can civilise a Masai Elmoran now ... but they're a long way off. ❋ Unknown (2010)
[Refined] [dining] is said by some to be the epitome of [civilisation] and then there's McDonalds. ❋ AKACroatalin (2015)
[Yo] “ [this town] is really [civilisating] itself” ❋ Town Maker (2021)
An example of civilised - 2 friends drinking 3 bottles of wine, [staggering] home via the Indian and not remembering entering the building let alone having a conversation with a little Indian man, then falling [sleep on] your friends floor before waking up and puking all over their [settee] and laptop. ❋ Day Long Legs (2014)
[P1]. "[theres] a lol-civilisation over there"
[P2]. "lets join " ❋ 3323454211997643 (2009)
The [Kundian Civilisation] is for Kundians ❋ The Kundian (2023)
