Significados de civilizing power em inglês

In the highest meaning of the term, it was a civilizing power.

And where British trade goes, on the whole there goes too the highest civilizing power in the world-Britishcharacter.

But while Asia was thus Hellenized, Hellas, the source of this splendid civilizing power, was moving surely toward annihilation.

Mr. Brassey managed notwithstanding to illustrate the civilizing power of railways by teaching the Basques the use of paper money.

Not free, of course, from the errors which mark all things human, it has been, and is, a civilizing power in this land.

They may not be honest from inclination, but they've got the fear of the gunboat always handy, and that's a wonderful civilizing power.

The noble rabbis of Cincinnati are an enlightening and civilizing power in the city, and their fellow-citizens know it and are grateful for it.

From John Eliot down, the gospel has been the great civilizing power among the Indians, and it will be a fatal mistake to withhold it.