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See wildlife photographers set a camera ambush that catches a wild adult tiger indulging in a rather civilized midday soak.
Smaller penises therefore represent a more civilized and therefore more highly evolved lineage.
Going to funerals and memorial services is part of being a civilized human being.
Sane and civilized societies do not give permission for such things.
Ownership in the beast and in the primitive savage was far more intense a thing than it is in the civilized world to-day.
We're not part of some barely civilized group living on a frontier, needing weapons to protect ourselves form some rabble.
It has been the custom in all civilized countries and ages to erect statues to commemorate the deeds and the virtues of the dead.
It is a lighter, much more civilized and refined product in general.
Its presence is a sure sign that people are not living with civilized amenities.
The liberation is too intense, too extreme, for a nature conditioned by and for a state of civilized confinement.
Such ethical behavior facilitates civilized living and improves the quality of life for everyone.
Hopefully they will not cling to their land galleons when they return to the civilized world.
Arguing in the alternative is a long-established principle of civilized debate.
When you are returning in the evening to a civilized place, it kind of slows this process down a bit.
They were either condemned by anti-Semites or expected to show restraint because they came from a civilized background.
So get the system up and running and join the rest of the civilized world.
The fact that you have had ongoing terror in this beautiful, civilized part of the world was fascinating to me.
Of course there has to be a civilized side to bush planes as well.
Of course, cannot get away with that sort of thing anymore, much too civilized nowadays.
And after that, for the rest of the time civilized humans observe such things, the difference will be apparent.
In ancient times the opulent and civilized found it difficult to defend themselves against the poor and barbarous nations.
Going to court to decide who won this contest is, in my opinion, as civilized as it gets.
The director has done his best to restore the civilized pleasures of the genre.
And a society that allows that to happen is not a society that can call itself civilized.
In the second place, cats are civilized members of the household.
Then came the application of that knowledge, and a far, far better and more civilized world resulted.
The people have proven time and again of being incapable of civilized life.
The question as to whether torture is too evil for a civilized society to tolerate seems fundamental.
In any case, there is something wrong with making the survival of the fittest a guiding principle of civilized society.
The rest of the civilized world generally pays quote a lot less for health insurance and has more coverage and less struggle.
Spending money you do not have does not make this a civilized country it makes you broke.
No one likes to be civilized at gunpoint, especially if they think they're civilized to begin with.
It is the culmination of centuries of endeavor, for civilized nations.
Think of the amount of brutality, the cruelty and the lies allowed to spread over the civilized world.
The fleeing family will need these records to preserve their language as they enter the wilderness and leave civilized society.
Killing an embryo to obtain body parts for other human beings is totally unethical and barbaric in a civilized society.
Let's try to be civilized and show each other cultures respect.
The world was simply grander back then, somehow more civilized, and nicer to look at.
For those looking to spend some time in more civilized surroundings, there's a game room and a lounge area with television.
Whatever compels humans to choose to live in a civilized and cooperative society, it is not the idea of morals.
Civilized societies make sure that when people are in desperate need of help, the money is there to take care of them.
No civilized society will tolerate its citizens dying in the streets for lack of health care.
Civilized scientists are a credit to their disciplines.
It means the common and universal sense of mankind, the common values basic to every civilized society and creed.
See a photographic expedition into the wild heart of a civilized continent.
In a civilized society they are both dis-empowered and equal.
He had visited nearly every civilized portion of the globe and claimed several rulers as his friends.
Solar and wind and geothermal energy are all fine, but they are not the serious sources of energy the civilized world needs.
If you cannot reason in a civilized manner then do not join the discussion.
But it must be balanced against a civilized society's need for behavioral constraints, agreed upon by the consent of the governed.
So now the adults are getting together to work it all out, in a civilized manner, over espresso.
Enjoy the castaway ambience, and try to stay civilized.
The resistance to what works in every other civilized country is a symptom of social pathology.
The people are far more observant than the dwellers in civilized lands.
In much of the civilized world intensive farmers replaced extensive farmers in fertile regions in prehistoric times.
The health statistics of all civilized countries have improved greatly in the past century.
Runs on any platform unlike other less civilized software.
It's time that civilized countries stop believing in voodoo.
And acts of genocide cannot be tolerated by the community of civilized nations.
It was civilized, and everyone took care of their families and kept them clean.
Any nation which tortures prisoners must be labeled criminal and isolated from the civilized world.
Surveys show that people who suffer road rage and airplane anxiety yearn for more civilized ways to travel.
It was simply what civilized people did to show respect.
The real homelessness is to call civilized that which is barbaric.
But there's a difference between, say, having a civilized divorce and throwing someone's things out of the window.
In civilized societies, settlement of disputes must be sought by peaceful means.
Most science fiction of the day predicted a future that was more civilized and more intelligent.
There's an energy created by sliding across snow on the edge of the civilized world where the air smells of possibility.
In a civilized society, one is considered not-guilty until ones guilt has been proven.
They can greatly cheapen the bills, but they are incapable of supplying the civilized world alone.
Outlander has nifty touches in civilized package powerful.
The rest of the civilized world has single payer healthcare, and it is both better and cheaper than ours.
The traditional answer is a hip flask filled with whisky, but feeding my monkey will be so much more civilized with this tiny cup.
Of course today these things are handled in a more civilized manner.
My brother uses an antique cigarette case for his and it looks so civilized.
Relying on chemistry instead of torque and heat, the relaxer seemed more worldly, more civilized and refined.
In fact, there is not a corner of the civilized world in which it is not known and liked.
It's not always easy to be civilized in major media, be it radio or print.
But more than that, it has no place in civilized society.
Even if you stuff it in the trunk, you'll still look eco-chic and civilized.
The city invites the people of the civilized world to attend the great fair.
Anarchy was replaced by a good time and the general tone and tenure was far more civilized and restrained.
Laughing at them and discussing the logistics of how to get rid of them is the civilized thing to do.
In all the world there remains only one large tribe of savages which shows no signs of dying out or becoming civilized.
The vulgar plastic slabs being sold as digital picture frames remain too ugly and bulky for a civilized drawing room.
Let us debate in a civilized way that shows respect for all opinions.
The civilized world needs to reformat the entire system of corrections so that it actually does some correcting.
They don't protect people against pressures and abuses that any civilized legal system should consider intolerable.
Our map of the past is strongly skewed toward civilized sedentary groups, where lack of mobility was the norm.

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