civilized people

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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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people
noun[plural]
uk
/ˈpiː.pəl/us
/ˈpiː.pəl/
men, women, ...
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(Definition ofcivilizedandpeoplefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Gain and sustenance represent the value realized from labor amongcivilizedpeople.
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I do believe, however, that as somewhatcivilizedpeoplewe must strive toward reaching a common goal that can help depolarize these opinions and focus them toward constructive joint actions.
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Baynton argues in his last chapter that, as the 19th century concluded and the 20th began, spoken language was seen as "normal" or "natural" forcivilizedpeople.
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This is the difference between a civilized parliament, made up ofcivilizedpeople, and circles and people who can be classified differently.
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It truly shamescivilizedpeopleand civilized countries.
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Against that has come this appalling revelation of what can be done bycivilizedpeoplein this twentieth century.
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Let us rather try to make things easy for the majority ofcivilizedpeople, who are in one fashion or another acquainted with western tongues.
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I wanted it to give the idea of a wholly different way of life from ourscivilizedpeople.
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It is said that the place was inhabited long back bycivilizedpeoplebut settlement has been demolished probably of an attack.
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He believed that they had to be forced to work the large plantations by morecivilizedpeople.
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Barbarians andcivilizedpeoplecoexist, yet the air is tense.
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However, after some exploration, they find a population ofcivilizedpeopleliving in relatively amicable homes.
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Because civilization depends on widespread violence (premise three), allcivilizedpeople(even dogmatic pacifists) are complicit in violence simply by their own participation in the industrial economy.
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This approach to a globally distributed data sharing network models the real-world mechanism of social contracts and legal contracts that bindcivilizedpeopleand organizations in the real world today.
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What had once been standard practice was now considered something that only less civilized peoples might engage in.
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For we stand on the shoulders of other civilized peoples...
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