And this can polarize society if the candidates, media and the government does not handle in a proper, civilized way, in order not to let the country to become a social conflict.
Unfortunately, right now, they do not live in a civilized country.
While most, if not all of the civilized world has been moving as fast and far away from lethal artillery as possible to nonlethal weaponry, the US and A's armed forces are spearheading the development of nonlethal weapons that feel like the very worst in lethal arms and they've granted a research contract to a University, no less.
That ought to make all the more urgent (if the suffering of innocents is not itself enough) that civilized parties demand attention on the remaining outliers.
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Against the advice of the timid, he sent a chilling message to authoritarian governments everywhere that the civilized world would not rest until freedom reigned in every corner of the globe.
"We want to send a very strong message ... this is not what we expect out of civilized society, " Wilson said.
Like pretty much every other room he has created, the overall effect bears close resemblance to Romualdez himself: elegant, civilized, glamorous but not remotely pretentious.
Finally, anyone arguing or subscribing to the concept that individual arms are not needed because we are a civilized society, only needs to read the reports of school shootings, robberies, rapes, drug violence, banking industry fraud, health care industry extortion and energy industry corruption.
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They are a dime a dozen and emanate from all kinds of civilized countries weekly, if not daily.
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Jeane Kirkpatrick, Rep. Tom Lantos (D-CA) and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Paula Dobriansky noted that in the face of genocidal threats civilized nations have a moral obligation not merely to punish the perpetrators after the fact, but to act swiftly and preemptively to prevent such threats from being realized.
Jeane Kirkpatrick, Rep. Tom Lantos (D-CA) and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Paula Dobriansky noted that -- in the face of genocidal threats -- civilized nations have a moral obligation not merely to punish the perpetrators after the fact, but to act swiftly and preemptively to prevent such threats from being realized.
This would be an excellent moment to review the costs not only to Iranians, but to any civilized world order, of the Iranian regime's lavish missile and nuclear bomb projects, as well as its terrorist networks and beachheads set up abroad to expand the reach of the same brutal system Iran's protesters are openly denouncing as a dictatorship.
This recognition would have come not just from the left-wing press, but by a civilized Western court from the mouth of Lady Justice Gloster.
It is shameful that in a civilized society we have to say this, but getting less loot is not the same thing as being robbed.
The relative honesty and objectivity of the electoral system in Europe are not thanks to the fact that the capitalists and their officials are particularly cultured and civilized.
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Here it should be stated up front that Israel is unquestionably the most civilized, entrepreneurial and advanced country in the Middle East, if not one of the most advanced in the world.
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No, I was never impressed, he was too spidery, too weak in his conversation, and badly composed in his dress, careless of his appearance, but for all that I thought quite civilized in having so little gift to dissemble or pretend what he did not feel.
At NPR, where civilized discourse is one of the network's cherished goals, it's not always possible to strike a perfect balance between the often competing goals of civility and the pursuit of responsive answers to pertinent questions.
The real hope for significant change in this domain arrives not from hardware or regulations, but from software--Silicon Valley information-technology tamed, civilized and optimized for the building market.
But in a civilized society, the priority should be to make sure the people that need help get it, not to stop the few bad eggs from sitting pretty.
It pains me greatly that my country did not learn from Vietnam that it should never again to waste its children on wars of choice, but instead use civilized nonviolent methods of conflict resolution.
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