"It is clear that the streets of America are becoming, by civilized standards, a war zone," a recent brochure warns.

It would be a very short hop, less than two million kilometers, scarcely a remooring by civilized standards.

Human rights groups applauded the ruling as a landmark that set a civilized standard for evidence in terror cases.

Her features were good, and by any civilized standards she would have been accounted a handsome woman.

Most of the colony planets are pretty unpleasant places by any civilized standard.

By your clearly more civilized standards, some of my comrades might be classed as scoundrels, at the very least.

The question now is whether we are ready to apply that civilized standard to homosexuals.

On the other hand, by civilized standards, he had no right to make any other.

He had been confident Sharbaraz adhered to civilized standards of conduct.

In the stadium, where more civilized standards prevail, there are penalties for such conduct.