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

There, beginning in the mid-1860s, she taught school, providing a civilizing influence on the children of local miners.

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

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

The clans are in great need of the civilizing influence of women.

Each single system exerts on all others in its area a civilizing influence that we cannot afford to ignore.

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

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

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

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