civilize

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• Sometimes it takes just one civilizing meal to make us feel like ourselves again.

• Alexander Stuart, the third interior secretary, once declared that the United States’ mission was to “civilize or exterminate” native people.

• An Army veteran looks at the fall of Mosul and recalls his own time there trying to civilize the land with guns and money.

• It means destroying Bedouin villages in the place where Jews civilize the desert.

• Consider it part of the mission to civilize, a necessary part of the process to start solving problems again in Washington.

• In the old days, colonial occupiers had what the French called “a mission to civilize.”

• A person who had resided some time on the coast of Africa, was asked if he thought it possible to civilize the natives?

• Nothing but slavery ever partially civilized him, nothing but slavery continued in some form can civilize him further!

• But our object in the country is to civilize and Christianize the Indian tribes among whom we are located.

• Are they useful men helping to civilize and elevate their less fortunate fellows?

• History furnishes us with abundant and specific evidence of his capacity to civilize and Christianize.