In the old days it might have been called the civilizing process.

The changes seem to have had a civilizing effect on the lunch hour.

One woman goes because she believes in the civilizing effect of poetry.

Some civilizing elements of life are under particular threat in this country today.

The civilizing process occurred as a result of advances in technology.

It made me think about how civilizing playing in a concert band can be.

Can you imagine what a civilizing effect that will have on the multitude?

He has a "civilizing instinct" and a nose for land.

Also, the idea that France had a civilizing mission was spreading.

George Washington formulated a policy to encourage the "civilizing" process.

You need the civilizing impact of these great areas.

It also plugs his country into one of Europe's civilizing institutions.

"Electric lights have a civilizing influence," continued the young man.

"Or maybe being over here is a civilizing influence."

However, all three celebrate the civilizing power of art.

"I see theater as having a civilizing and healing influence on the surrounding community."

In those years, park managers saw dogs and their owners as a civilizing influence.

But now all those parties served a civilizing purpose.

"The firehouse was a civilizing influence in a very bad area," he added.

Deeper down was the sense that France owed the world a civilizing mission.

The waters of the goblet, though, can be seen as a civilizing influence.

Wine is generally credited for having a civilizing influence on the people who drink it.

He continues: "Some other civilizing agent must therefore be necessary.

Western Europe is giving up its sense of itself as a civilizing corner of the world.

There were undoubtedly still some who believed that Germany had a "civilizing mission" to the east.

With the help of your people or without it, we will civilize you in the end.

"Well, you suppose that drug will help civilize the world?"

The school was part of a government program claiming to civilize Native children.

We talk of civilizing the Indian, but that is not the name for his improvement.

We, in the Federation, have tried to civilize ourselves beyond that point.

Think of the vast stride it will be in civilizing these people!

He could not turn down offers to "civilize" the Africans.

I was told by blackguards that you did not civilize yet.

I thought uniting them under one leader would begin the process of civilizing the region.

Yet the crusading movement in many ways helped to civilize Europe.

It had been a gesture, a nod towards civilizing him.

Up until then, we hadn't been doing too bad a job of civilizing the world."

May it continue to civilize its visitors, even in these barbaric times.

But civilizing the bullies of the street had not been Achilles' idea.

He believed in the "noble" cause of civilizing the Indians.

Though he doesn't understand that we'll have to civilize them first."

The Europeans wanted to rid the area of wolves to civilize it.

If they can work out some of the details in the kitchen, they may yet civilize the late night.

Surely, the attempt to civilize my floors was the moral thing to do.

"So you think that we can civilize our ancestors?"

"See what becomes of your plans to civilize us."

Little monsters, most of them, who don't civilize until they are grown and sometimes not then.

She sets about civilizing him by teaching him how to dance.

According to the film, the Americans came to the Philippines for one reason: to civilize the people.

She smiled at him sweetly and said, "Oh, how nice to be civilize!"