For Toynbee, a civilization might or might not continue to thrive, depending on the challenges it faced and its responses to them.

There is no chance, sir, that their civilisation will continue here.

He argues that civilizations continue to grow only when they meet one challenge only to be met by another.

They are portraits of the abyss, the quagmire from which civilization nonetheless continues to arise.

But he said he was confident that civilization would continue to make great progress.

Or had the remnants of it been pulled back, closer to the wealthy inner planets where civilization might continue to exist for a while?

For good or bad, civilization would continue its march through the jungle.

Their civilization has continued since the Pre-Columbian era.

"Savior" is the story of two people who have been dehumanized by war reaffirming the basic human connections without which civilization couldn't continue.

Our civilisation, and my country in particular, continues to waste a great deal of water and this must change.