Usage examples (34)

• Maybe they just have what Mark Steyn would term civilizational will.
• "The idea that we're in some kind of civilizational challenge is completely wrong headed," he said.
• But to show the "civilizational" standards of the Europeans at the time to be superior to the standards of their Arab enemies is quite false but unsurprising.
• Their story of "civilizational" war -- comfortably embedded within the good-versus-evil scheme -- was not surprising at all, though hardly compatible with the above...