Civilize in a sentence

It was the design of the Spanish government to have the missions educate, elevate, civilize, the Indians into citizens.

He wanted to civilize Victor with the objectives of teaching him to speak and to communicate human emotion.

Civilize It seeks to have people act, listen and respond respectfully to each other this political season.

Those who were close to the Hobbesian view tended to believe themselves to have a duty to "civilize" and "modernize" the indigenous.

He was still a soldier in the army of freedom, and still tried to enlighten and civilize those who were impatiently waiting for his death.

Diplomacy, broad cooperation, treaties and law, all the mechanisms designed to civilize the global community, would be replaced by savagery.

Can we still agree to disagree in a civilize manner and for those bully haters hang their bigotry in their closets and keep it to themselves?

She tries her best to civilize Huck, believing it is her Christian duty.

For example, postcolonial scholars, believed that colonizing powers explained an ‘other’ who were there to dominate, civilize, and extract resources through colonization of land.

The Romans tried to civilize the ancient Britons.

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The US attempted to "civilize" Native Americans.

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They came to Africa to civilize the infidels.

The most well-known of these policies started in the late 19th century, when the government took many Indian children from their parents and put them in boarding schools to "civilize" them.

Bush only wants to civilize the world.

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