Even while exposing the shambles of the government's policy on asylum-seekers, he still manages to sound humane and well-intentioned.
Senator McCain's plan — to buy troubled mortgages from banks at full value and replace them with mortgages at the house's lower market price — may sound humane, but it is an unjustifiable waste of taxpayer money.
The policy results are the same -- more trade barriers -- but now it sounds more humane.
An imagistic verbing – "We're going to sunset that project" – that sounds more humane and poetic than "cancel" or "kill".
"Although moving as a pack is a natural and ongoing strategy in the animal kingdom," it continues, "among humans it can indicate a desensitized brutality and disregard for humanity — a concept that is at the core of 'Wonderland.' " But even though this helps to explain how "Wonderland" proceeds, it sounds more humane than how "Wonderland" feels in the theater.
If those good old days sound humane, consider what those lending practices mean to the outsider -- to the upstart who doesn't belong to the right country club, isn't from the right family, isn't of the right race -- or to the insider whose entrepreneurial idea threatens established businesses.
Ten states, plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, have embraced the idea, concluding that the policy is economically sound, humane and better for law enforcement.
The Animal Welfare Approved program has routinely held the position that scientifically sound humane and sustainable systems are the alternative to the failed experiment of Big Ag, and are the way to feed and water the world.
(Shaar, otherwise known for his iron fist, must have been grateful to be able to sound so humane).
Public subsidies for essential services such as water may sound like humane policy, but in the real world subsidies benefit the powerful, because they have the resources to manipulate them.
