Maybe they just have what Mark Steyn would term civilizational will.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Davis Gets a Shock] Reference

"The idea that we're in some kind of civilizational challenge is completely wrong headed," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michelle Haimoff: Economist Jeffrey Sachs: "We'll Get Out of This Mess"] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tuesday, May 31, 2005] Reference

Their story of "civilizational" war -- comfortably embedded within the good-versus-evil scheme -- was not surprising at all, though hardly compatible with the above principles.    From Wordnik.com.  [MRZine.org] Reference

The only way out is a total civilizational paradigm shift. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [hidden holocaust--our civilizational crisis: THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT?] Reference

Even as, fitfully-fraught with complex cycles of civilizational rise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ten Millennia Ago a Seed Was Planted] Reference

In the growth of the civilizational plant germinated from that first seed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ten Millennia Ago a Seed Was Planted] Reference

India's civilizational ethos has been an immeasurable asset for our country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shashi Tharoor: Indian Strategic Power: Soft] Reference

The national borders were real, and reflected deep civilizational differences.    From Wordnik.com.  [Islam's Nowhere Men] Reference

We also stand at the brink of worldwide ecological and civilizational collapse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenny Ausubel: Dreaming the Future Can Create the Future] Reference

We should begin to appreciate Judaeo-Christian influences from a civilizational perspective.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

For an existential civilizational crisis as we deplete oil needed to keep the wheels turning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ten Millennia Ago a Seed Was Planted] Reference

Suppose the barbarism is in a region -- Europe -- to which this nation has civilizational ties.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Acting As Rome . . .] Reference

How, then, faced with this fatal flaw in our civilizational make-up, do we implement this plan?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patrick Takahashi: The Free and Clean Hydrogen Age (Part 3)] Reference

I think we have several civilizational issues that we have to grapple with on our watch right now.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 22, 2007] Reference

It must preserve the precious pluralism that is such a civilizational asset in our globalizing world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shashi Tharoor: Indian Strategic Power: Soft] Reference

The US Is only a secondary player in this civilizational strife that will unfold over a very long period.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nathan Gardels: Abizaid: "Iran Is Not a Suicide State; Deterrence Will Work"] Reference

"" World politics, '' said Huntington, "" is being reconfigured along cultural and civilizational lines. ''.    From Wordnik.com.  [Going Home] Reference

Serbs, Croats and Muslims "all received substantial help from civilizational kin outside the former Yugoslavia.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Clash Of A New Order] Reference

Well, except for that little "civilizational collapse, mass starvation, and perpetual warfare" thing right up ahead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Randall Amster: Happy Doomsday to You!] Reference

Everyone is poorer for the failure of vision that has scuppered one of the great civilizational projects of our times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who Lost Turkey?] Reference

(It could be repaired with Bronze Age tools if, heaven forbid, there's a little civilizational setback during that period.).    From Wordnik.com.  [TURNING TO 'GOD'S TIME'] Reference

The budding "strategic relations" between India and the US have stifled the "civilizational ties" shared by India and Iran.    From Wordnik.com.  [Betwa Sharma: Three to Tango] Reference

Our failure to apply the Nuremberg precedents threatens to sacrifice a civilizational advance as major as the printing press.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shahid Buttar: Losing Wars We Already Won (Part I): Torture vs. WWII] Reference

This attitude comes straight out of the primitive racialism and imaginary civilizational hierarchies of the nineteenth century.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saree Makdisi: Netanyahu's Two-State Goal?] Reference

The texts, though scholarly, are accessible to the general reader, giving excellent instruction in a rich civilizational epoch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Season's Readings] Reference

When you begin to say that the problem is a civilizational struggle within the Muslim world -- which is right, your point's right.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 10, 2010] Reference

The mistake in this is that it puts Atlanticism and Eurasianism on the same plane, as competing global or civilizational identities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eurasianism and Atlanticism: enemies or allies?] Reference

The mistake in this is that it puts Atlanticism and Eurasianism on the same plane, as competing global or civilizational identities. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eurasianism and Atlanticism: enemies or allies?] Reference

But it isn't until a comparatively late stage that people suggest that this might have something to do with the civilizational difference.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Went Wrong?: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response] Reference

And they are very much the ones who are most likely to feel acutely what they perceive as kind of grand humiliation, civilizational humiliation.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 27, 2009] Reference

The greatest advantage of Huntington's civilizational model of international relations is that it reflects the world as it is not as we wish it to be.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Win the Clash of Civilizations] Reference

The tribal and familial infighting is not new, but now it has the veneer of a civilizational clash, with more weapons, money and recruits to keep the enmities fresh.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Pakistani-Afghan border, some join Taliban to settle scores with relatives] Reference

Such a view suits politicians, bureaucrats and military men on both sides of the border -- or, as they would prefer to see it, on either side of a "civilizational fault line.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Exploring The Beast Within] Reference