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Did political correctness push them away from civilised political discussion?
His adopted country is "more civilised, I'm sorry," he apologises.
Do not imagine that this debate will be easy or civilised.
Its official history calls it "a civilised refuge for good fellows".
LONDON — It was supposed to be a very peaceful and civilised affair.
Sometimes, too, its sheer beauty made it necessary to a civilised society.
An aide says that "civilised conflict" helps keep politics, and parties, alive.
Backs are slapped and babies cooed over; a civilised babble fills the space.
But a good bloodline imposed a code of honourable behaviour and civilised manners.
And it just feels superior: one woman in Lambayene describes it as "civilised".
Unionists complain that separatism's civilised facade hides an unpleasant sense of moral superiority.
Next consider the swelling range of opinion deemed to fall outside civilised discourse.
Does this suggest the debate over free speech on campus is becoming more civilised?
Jobs with more civilised hours tout the fact as though it were a novelty.
A fresher and more civilised way to while away the afternoon I cannot imagine.
British politicians may look civilised compared with, say, Hungary's Viktor Orban or America's Donald Trump.
It it is increasingly important that Britain offers an example of civilised, democratic, liberal self-government.
Humans aren't content with tossing pancakes and eating them in a civilised fashion on Pancake Day.
The more this is realised, the more civilised and productive the outcome of the separation will be.
The supposedly civilised garden becomes brutal; the lawn is imperious in its consumption of space and resources.
Mr Stone says he is proud that the debate about Mr Bannon's visit has so far been civilised.
It is associated with concepts such as common sense, temperance, responsibility, tolerance, thoughtfulness, prudence, civilised behaviour, and realism.
Better skin, increased concentration levels, the ability to make civilised conversation without first ingesting large quantities of caffeine.
"Political responsibility would have been shouldered in any other civilised, Western country," Nationalist Party leader Adrian Delia said.
Following a civilised tradition of former presidents abstaining from criticising their successor, he did not mention Donald Trump once.
"ALL that concerns the Mediterranean is of the deepest interest to civilised man," wrote Edward Forbes, a 19th-century naturalist.
At her bedside Aneurin Bevan, the health secretary, called the NHS the most civilised step any country had ever taken.
In 1925 Kemal Ataturk, Turkey's first president, declared that a "civilised, international dress" was "worthy and appropriate" for the new republic.
Angela Merkel has said Germany's very future depends on it continually understanding the Holocaust as "the ultimate betrayal of civilised values".
"For a supposedly civilised nation, this is a pernicious and retrograde step that will embolden our enemies and alienate our allies."
These now offer unique glimpses of the past, since most of that gritty, heartfelt music has been civilised out of existence.
The coffee-house tradition is broadly distinctive to the German-speaking world, a symbol of civilised and convivial discussion of current events.
But Euro Garages extended this model throughout the country and started spending big money on making their forecourts more convenient, and civilised.
Just one in five of those sprightly 18 to 21-year-olds choose to cough up the cash for a civilised pint.
For a civilised democracy to work you need the losers consent, politicians not accepting the referendum result have led us to this.
But, talking with smoking colleagues, it seems that there are still places where the addicted can feed their habit in a civilised environment.
Their aim was to get Suqian recognised as a "civilised city" by the central government—an award that many local administrations yearn for.
Long gone are the days when knives, forks, and spoons were mere implements for transporting food to our mouths in a civilised manner.
"Even Mr. Sargent's skill has not succeeded in making attractive these over-civilised European Orientals," a critic for The Spectator wrote in 1897.
"I call a savage a something highly desirable to be civilised off the face of the earth," said his more parochial contemporary, Charles Dickens.
John Maynard Keynes made it clear that he regarded economics as nothing more than a means to an end, that end being civilised life.
It strikes Gulliver that floating to a meeting across the ocean in an airship would be a wonderfully civilised and relaxing way to arrive.
Fresh from the 1906 trip, he gives an impassioned defence of tribespeople to the Royal Geographical Society, arguing that Amazonian "savages" are in fact civilised.
Cricket's languid, civilised pace can pose problems for commentators, who feel the need to keep talking even when not much is happening on the field.
Using a quote containing swear words about Mr Khan fell below the objective and civilised journalistic norms that readers expect from a publication like yours.
France says there are alternative, civilised reception centres for everyone if people will just disperse, and there is no question that some are doing so.
It was a "blatant and unacceptable breach of the most fundamental tenets of international law and civilised behaviour", she told the House of Commons on Thursday.
"We all recognise the need for civilised, practical and fast decisions to resolve the political crisis, however hard that may seem," Karapetyan said in a statement.
Meanwhile orators told Americans that their revolt had been unusually civilised: one public meeting in 1813 declared the revolution "untarnished with a single blood-speck of inhumanity".
British settlers reached New Zealand much later than Australia, found what they saw as a more civilised society, and signed a treaty with the Maori in 1843.
One EU official cheekily suggests they pack a box set of "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine", set on an outpost at the edge of the civilised universe.
The vixen is served pizza twice a week from a rather civilised blue and white enamelware bowl (v on trend) by Yeovil couple Maxine and Tony Hawker.
The drinkers I was sharing the place with barely threatened to register even that; they seemed to be there for a couple of civilised rounds after work.
"That man occupies the most powerful office in the free world and his daily outrages against civilised norms are having a corrosive effect," she wrote on Twitter.
That is why Spain has more bars per person than any other European country (which fans would say is part of what makes it such a civilised place).
The great justification of managerial liberalism is its focus on productivity: it is only by boosting productivity that we can create the surplus that makes for civilised life.
The inaugural match of the tournament, between Russia and Saudi Arabia, kicked off early in Moscow, which meant it was a relatively civilised 1:00 am in Vladivostok.
China had asked Italy "to enforce the law in a civilised way, conduct fair investigation and protect the security and lawful rights and interests of Chinese citizens in Italy".
China has "an administrative rewards system" in which hundreds of thousands of people a year receive honours and titles, such as "outstanding cadre", "spiritually advanced individual" and "civilised village".
Queen of baking Mary Berry will be taking part in Civilised Saturday, signing copies of her new book Mary Berry's Family Sunday Lunches at The Chorleywood Bookshop in Herefordshire.
Leave it too late, and you forfeit any prospect of reward under the new regime (and, in less civilised places, may wind up standing against a wall in a blindfold).
Yet the main thrust of his speech was in a way more audacious: an effort to stake out, ahead of Iowa, the ground for legitimate debate in a civilised society.
Buildings which play host to the arts are often statements of intent: they are architectural means by which a city can proclaim its civilised seriousness toward music, theatre, dance and ideas.
"The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilised community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others," he wrote in On Liberty.
Randa Shahal Al Sabbagh's film "A Civilised People" (1999), for example, was censored for its depiction of a loving relationship between a Muslim militiaman and a Christian maid during the conflict.
But whisking satellites, space probes and even people into orbit on a giant elevator might be cheaper, more reliable and more civilised than using giant fireworks—if one could be built.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Venice promised Peggy a more civilised welcome and, after much house-hunting, she found a vacant palazzo on the eastern stretch of the Grand Canal.
" ON RESTRICTING RUSSIAN INTERNET ACCESS "We are not going to close anything... I also worked in the security services and know it is easiest to ban, and harder to find civilised solutions.
No, it should be about floral notes and fruity flavours—refreshing combinations to be sipped in a civilised manner on sunny patios or the deck of a yacht somewhere off the Italian coast.
In Ford v Wainwright, the 1986 case, the court cited the "natural abhorrence civilised societies feel at killing one who has no capacity to come to grips with his own conscience or deity".
A far cry from alarm clocks of yore, the options are really quite pleasant, from birdsong to gentle piano, all of which gradually build in volume for a more civilised wake-up experience.
Even those who are strongly opposed to abortion on moral or religious grounds very frequently agree that threatening women with prison should be no part of a civilised society's response to unwanted pregnancy.
The fees issue and sporadic outages will put Monzo in the mainstream press but according to Will Beeson, head of operations and innovation at Civilised Bank, Monzo's continued transparency works in their favour.
Rebellion and revolution in Spain may get you thinking about 20th century civil wars and bloody political uprisings, but apparently the way today's Spaniards stick it to the man is a little more civilised.
Aimed at encouraging civilised behaviour while traveling overseas and within the country, this effort sponsored by the National Tourism Administration comes amid various embarrassing incidents where Chinese tourists were caught behaving badly while traveling.
All of the first week's articles can be found here The articles on assisted dying in The Economist are extremely helpful; even with those whom I disagree completely, I can have civilised and enlightening discussions.
Mary Beard, a celebrated classicist, considered perspective: through design histories from Mexico and Greece to Egypt and China, she focused on the human body as a way of framing the discussion of what is considered "civilised".
"China hopes that the relevant countries can enforce the law in a civilised manner, handle it in accordance with the law and protect the legal rights of the relevant Chinese companies and their employees," Geng said.
The court said its decision "reminds everyone that in a civilised country not even the worst of men should starve," generating a lot of discussion over the state of poverty in Italy and around the world.
The internet not only allows the likes of Tommy Robinson to reach millions of people, it also persuades otherwise civilised folk to adopt mob behaviour, bombarding their enemies with vituperative messages and embracing ever more extreme views.
Like those in the West who resent foreign immigrants, Chinese urbanites often blame their cities' problems on outsiders, albeit on people from other parts of the country (who often speak very different dialects and lack "civilised" city ways).
Former police chief Tang King-shing said he felt hurt when protesters besieged police headquarters during the week, while pro-Beijing heavyweight Maria Tam praised what she described as Hong Kong people's civilised ways of expressing their opinions.
In June 1913, the entente cordiale between Britain and France was described as "the expression of tendencies which are slowly but surely making war between the civilised communities of the world an impossibility" ("Neighbours and friends", June 28th 35.33).
CAIRO, Dec 21 (Reuters) - A spokesman for the Sudanese government said on Friday that protests over prices in several cities on Wednesday and Thursday were "dealt with in a civilised way without repression or opposition", the official Sudan News Agency reported.
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that he had a "proper civilised chat" with Baldwin before he was told to leave his post and said "he has an opportunity for a different type of role" in the organisation.
We might consider ourselves a bit more civilised than the toga-wearing sociopaths of antiquity, but we still want to watch terrible savagery in a purpose-built arena, and we still want to cheer at the sight of indiscriminate carnage.
With their rampant egos out of the picture, blunt negotiating style has apparently given way to civilised talks between Mr Elkann, scion of Fiat's founding Agnelli family, and Jean-Dominique Senard, who took over from Mr Ghosn as Renault's chairman in January.
The mutual praise between Joshua and Klitschko echoed the civilised and respectful way the two former Olympic champions had behaved in the build-up to the contest but there was nothing civil about the brutal punishment they dished out to each other.
Social democracy is the result of the split of the Second International, between the traditional Marxist-Communist line that capitalism could not be civilised and the social democratic path of proposing change through the ballot box and some accommodation—the mixed economy.
As Cloughan explains, it is hoped that the site will provide a place where victims can "gain some inner peace and healing from the deep pain and grief they continue to suffer as a consequence of this brutal era of our civilised nation."
Atlantic Markets' John Woolfitt said it appeared the market was relieved that Trump "can actually act in a civilised manner and isn't on a total rampage inciting trade wars across the globe," giving the partnership and relationship with the EU "some much needed respite".
"It's problematic because the UK and the US have been part of this crisis and this mess and now they're the civilised people, the white heroes who are saving these things [from] the Middle Easterners, the Muslims, the savages who are destroying them," she says.
In theory they should travel well: a self-driving car trained on China's chaotic streets ought to have no problem navigating the more civilised traffic in Europe (in contrast, a vehicle trained in Germany may not get far beyond the first intersection in Beijing).
No wonder the generation shattered by the first world war and buffeted by the Depression, then by the rise of communism and fascism, looked back on the Edwardian era as an enchanted long-ago, when civilised people were forever taking tea on the vicarage lawn.
"The secretary denounces all forms of violence and radicalism depriving others' legitimate rights in the pretext of pursuing their political ideals, which would never be in the interest of Hong Kong and any civilised society," the Hong Kong government said in a separate statement.
What we have here is a load of actual grown adult men—men with hair under their armpits, bank accounts, and driving licenses—genuinely spatting on terms less civilised than you'd expect on an after-school MSN messenger session between a group of horny year 9s.
WHEN VLADIMIR PUTIN arrived in Brisbane for the G20 meeting five years ago, he cut an isolated figure, frozen out of the civilised world by the annexation of Crimea, the invasion of eastern Ukraine and the shooting down of a passenger airliner with Dutch and Australian families on board.
" Some of the loudest cheers greeted one of the promises that will be hardest to keep, when Mr Trump said: "We will reinforce old alliances and form new ones—and unite the civilised world against radical Islamic terrorism, which we will eradicate completely from the face of the earth.
Much like some eccentric primatologist who lives amongst mountain gorillas for months on end, a part of us wants to cultivate their acceptance so that we may see through their eyes, gradually follow their lead in shedding our own civilised pretensions and, eventually, learn to imitate their wild and exhilarating ways.
Being from a distant foreign country where brunch is something that Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte, Samantha and other wealthy socialites did every weekend, it appeared, from the outside, like a fabulously pleasant experience for the civilised classes that also used lunch as an adjective and defined their appointments by the time at which they occur.
North Korea's state broadcaster used it as an opportunity to attack the country's critics, saying: "The Pyongyang Taedonggang beer festival shows our people's lives filled with happiness and optimism, building up a people's paradise and a highly civilised socialist country, while smashing the US and its followers' heinous moves to isolate and stifle the Democratic People's Republic of Korea."
In a Sunday editorial in the Manila Bulletin newspaper, much of it written in capital letters, Ramos listed priority focus areas that could have been "do-able" if Duterte had hit the ground running "instead of being stuck in endless controversies about extrajudicial killings of drug suspects and in his ability at using cuss-words and insults instead of civilised language".
Why African photographers don't get to tell African photo stories in Western media: If the construction of the African as child-like, or not quite human, who has little agency or intellect, aided the colonial project, today, the narrative continues to aid the construction of the European self as civilised, maintaining the African and Africa as the location of savagery, helplessness, and devastation.

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