Also, the idea that France had a civilizing mission was spreading.

He gloried in its power but believed that it was different from all past empires, blessed with a historic civilizing mission.

The British regarded long-term occupation as an inherent part of their self-appointed "civilizing mission."

"I guess you saw through the governor's speech last night, Chuck, did you - all that hypocritical talk about the civilizing mission?"

This 'civilizing mission' was both a 'burden'and a 'duty'as well as being a source of pleasurable employment and riches.

It differed from the "civilizing mission" of other colonial powers in emphasising material welfare rather than a transfer of culture.

Deeper down was the sense that France owed the world a civilizing mission.

There were undoubtedly still some who believed that Germany had a "civilizing mission" to the east.

This man, who had an extensive general knowledge, felt he had a civilizing mission that he wanted to accomplish.

Recall that when the British and French colonized the Middle East, they did so in the guise of a civilizing mission.