1. A civilised leader must eschew violence.

2. Let's discuss this like civilised people.

3. They're brutal people behind their civilised veneer.

4. Haas was quite pleasant, very civilised.

5. China is a highly civilised country.

6. Terrorism is totally unacceptable in a civilised world.

7. I wrote to my ex-wife. She was very civilised about it.

8. Without unwritten rules civilised life would be impossible.

9. It's very enjoyable, very civilised.

10. I have been re-transformed to myself and this civilised gloom.

11. Nor, if we are in civilised cast of mind, because we wish to become drunk.

12. Tony Marlow says Britain has become too civilised and doesn't punish offenders properly.

13. Envy was a civilised emotion, attendant upon some degree of security and the possession of things strictly unnecessary to survival.

14. It exists in every civilised society so that Governments, the rich and the powerful can not abuse their position.

15. Clearly Stockport's loss of this calm, civilised, distinguished man was Pembroke's gain.

16. An eye for an eye is no way to run a civilised justice system.

17. Perhaps they could sit down and discuss things in a civilised fashion.

18. London is confident and alive, resonating with all the qualities of a civilised city.

19. Are you quite mad, as well as totally lacking in any of the trappings of civilised society?

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20. We adapt and suppress our needs in order to behave in a civilised fashion.

21. When John was so short-tempered, it hardly seemed possible to conduct a civilised conversation.

22. They sit at conference tables and discuss them in a civilised manner.

23. The general problem for anarchists has been that a majority of most civilised populations will balk at attacks on the innocent.

24. The degradation of public discourse, the spread of cynicism, makes our collective life less civilised.

25. The butterfly of the gospel has broken out of its chrysalis at Jerusalem and has flown to the centre of the civilised world.

26. That, I believe, is the way we all want to live - a decent life in a civilised community.

27. His evil and bestial nature stands directly opposed to our just and civilised culture.

28. I had experienced other bird observatories; some were less well-endowed with the amenities of civilised living.

29. A pleasant smile and a willing spirit melt barriers and keep communications civilised.

30. So it is that we must also support voluntary action and volunteering as essential in a healthy democracy in a civilised society.

1. A civilised leader must eschew violence.

2. They're brutal people behind their civilised veneer.

31. During that time, however, civilised inter-state standards went into serious decline.

32. London experts in international law said that his release would provide little comfort for others who transgressed the norms of civilised behaviour.

33. It appeared to Nizan as the only realistic method of conducting human affairs in a civilised manner.

34. Civilised society generally only convicts where a man is guilty beyond reasonable doubt.

35. Tax is the price we pay for a civilised society.

36. Indeed, it would represent a complete breakdown, not just of law and order, but of all civilised values.

37. What should have been a civilised debate degenerated into an unseemly row between the two sides.

38. There appears no civilised pale where they can remove their armour and let down their guard for any length of time.

39. You're going up to have a bath; then we're going to act like civilised people.

40. Piggy wanted a sign from the adult world as he thought they were civilised even though they were at war.

41. It has often been noted that while barbarians fight with hatchets(), civilised men fight with gossip.

42. Indeed the habits of our civilised forebears at work and play would not always stand up to the scrutiny of the modern conscience.

43. All civilised states recognise this assertion of personal liberty and privacy.

44. The idea of the boy Scout movement soon spread and was imitated throughout the civilised world.

45. Singapore is indeed a civilised nation.

46. No civilised country should deem their use lawful.

47. The EU way was " much more civilised "

48. He was a man too civilised, too subtle, to labour his points.

49. the late French historian Georges Duby saw Gothic art as in part a reaction to the Cathar heresy(sentence dictionary), a civilised counterpart of the bloody Albigensian crusade.

50. The test of any civilised society is how it treats its minorities.

51. There are no savage and civilised peoples; there are only different cultures.

52. But capital is the only civilised option left in the regulatory toolbox.

53. His action in fighting against the Bolshevist springtide was waged beyond that, for Europe and the entire civilised world.

54. And in his diaries Gordon, a very devout Christian, had no doubt that the Mahdi and his men were overexcited natives hell-bent on destroying the civilised world.

55. Nor were the standards that Mr Smith so volubly sought to maintain very civilised.

56. The fine attributes of the Swiss are the prerequisites for any civilised society.

57. The pure scientist is considered socially acceptable in some perfectly civilised colleges.

58. For Europeans, the law is a statement of basic principles of civilised conduct.

59. He is civilised, self-reliant and friendly, confiding details about his life and toys to everyone he meets.

60. Burqa or niqab neither has a place in Islam nor should it obtain a place in civilised Western societies where women are equal to men and public safety of all is paramount.

61. For all its civilised aspect, Oxford is prone to rancour.

62. The Indians, in turn, were charmed by the famous author's cultured and civilised outlook.