"Like, if I can just play Plato's advocate here, what do you mean exactly when you talk about defending civilization?"

Legends say that the fortifications still standing nearby defended human civilization against Dark Powers over the mountains to the west.

Once he has a cadre of Lensmen available to defend civilization, Samms uses them to begin tracing leads to the major threats to civilization.

A: The country expects universities to defend civilization, provide leadership, keep the national memory alive, overcome all social problems and do everything that the family and the church haven't done.

In that war tale the protagonist and his best friend die heroically defending Western (i.e. Christian) civilization against attack by Muslim Saracens.

The Axis promoted the alliance as a part of a revolutionary process aimed at breaking the hegemony of plutocratic-capitalist Western powers and defending civilization from communism.

Out in the sea of demonstrators, Matthew Maryles, 59, a tax consultant from Brooklyn, said that Israel was defending civilization.

Traditionalists defend classical Western civilization, and value an education informed by the texts of the Hebraic, Greek, Roman, and Medieval eras.

Lukacs defends traditional Western civilization against what he sees as the leveling and debasing effects of mass culture.

The periodical was founded by the Jesuit priest Carlo Maria Curci, who wanted to defend "catholic civilization" against a perceived growing influence of liberals and freemasons.