Hence, it is in land-wars irregular bands of marauders are liable to be treated as lawless banditti, not entitled to the protection of the mitigated usages of war as practiced by civilized nations.
Civilized nations, however, do not so carry on war, and the laws of war do not permit this mode of warfare.
By the exchange of prisoners, nothing was conceded except what was evident to the world--that actual war existed, and that a Christian people should at least conduct it according to the usages of civilized nations.
There are a hundred things to give information to such a party, or influence its action, which are unknown to civilized nations.
The customs of civilized nations, in warring with each other, opposed it.
There is one title which has always been acknowledged by civilized nations, and that is the title by conquest.
In the observance of a practice almost universal among barbarous or semi-civilized nations, the mound-builders deposited various articles of use and ornament with their dead.
The retaliation now proposed is useless, for it can have no practical result; and it is not in harmony with the usages of civilized nations.
I said nothing against retaliation according to the laws and usages of civilized nations, for that I know is one of the terrible incidents of war; but I resisted a principle which civilization disowns.
In fact the aim of these elementary dramas, which contain in germ the tragedy and comedy of civilized nations, was the acquisition of superhuman power for the public good.
In 1845, in his Notes on the semi-civilized nations of Mexico, his conclusions were much the same, but he made an exception in favor of the Otomis.
Among what are usually reckoned the civilized nations of middle America, there are two considerable centres of a dim history that have little relation with the story which has been thus far followed.
His bald head was covered by a red night-cap, which, to show his knowledge of the customs of civilized nations, he raised a little on his entrance.
At all events, it appears certain that thefts do not take place oftener than among civilized nations.
But if he only meant by this the tacit consent, or, in other words, the general custom of civilized nations, it does not appear that there is much difference between his theory and that of Wolf or Vattel.
Money, he thinks, was introduced by an agreement of civilized nations, as a measure of value.
A formal declaration of war, though not necessary by the law of nature, has been rendered such by the usage of civilized nations.
Demosthenes and Cicero alone would be hailed as the supreme orators thruout the whole group of civilized nations.
But the crime of murder is as severely punished by savages, as by civilized nations.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "civilized nations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
