civilized nation

collocation in English

meaningsofcivilizedandnation

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civilized
adjective
uk
/ˈsɪv.əl.aɪzd/us
/ˈsɪv.əl.aɪzd/
A civilized society or country has a well developed system of government, culture, and way of life and that treats the people who live ...
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nation
noun
uk
/ˈneɪ.ʃən/us
/ˈneɪ.ʃən/
a country, especially when thought of as a large group of people living in one area with their own government, language, ...
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(Definition ofcivilizedandnationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This is not an attitude of the sacred cow but an elementary characteristic of our claim to be acivilizednation.
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Indeed, if electricity supplies were interfered with and cut off, our very existence as acivilizednationwould be at stake.
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It is truly out of all proportion for acivilizednationto do something like this.
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The laws of everycivilizednationdeclare them "hostis humani generis"; enemies of all mankind.
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That's a mark of acivilizednation.
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The vision usually included a notion of an incipient or immanent international society composed of civilized nations.
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Nocivilizednationwill recognize the results.
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All civilized nations, he wrote, pay great attention to scientific and modern rules of cleanliness and health.
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Prisoners captured in the field are not by civilized nations put to death.
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Such laws mean no more than what civilized nations have agreed to be the methods by which they will conduct war.
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We wholeheartedly desire to welcome you without delay into the peaceful collaboration of civilized nations.
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Civilized nations cannot put up with sacrificing public decency and environmental imperatives on the altar of free-trade.
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It would express the standard to which civilized nations were expected to conform.
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Lightships have never heretofore been specially protected because they have always been regarded by civilized nations as outside the scope of hostilities and immune from attack.
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Begin building a home of your own, ruled by law and order, in order to be a worthy member within the family of civilized nations!
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It is founded on the ideas which are a common product of all civilized nations...
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