Sentence examples for act of humanitarian from inspiring English sources
Interviews with staff members reveal a complex, critical, and analytical response to the act of humanitarian architecture and design.
The first Bush Administration did engage in one act of humanitarian interventionism, in Somalia, when it sent American troops to help feed starving civilians in Mogadishu.
Popular US commentator Juan Cole supports the very same war that Ed Schultz does, but supports it as a gentle act of humanitarian generosity.
This, of course, makes "Darwin's Nightmare" a political film, rather than an act of humanitarian witness -- a film whose harrowing vision is meant to advance, and to initiate an argument.
"We are asking that [North Korean] authorities take into account his health and his age and, as an act of humanitarian compassion, allow him to depart immediately for home".].
Many personal acts of humanitarian giving were probably tainted by ideas of African and Asian inferiority that served to infantilise these societies and to dehumanise their people to an almost pornographic extent.
Some act out of humanitarian concern.
UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos, who has repeatedly urged the Security Council to act on humanitarian access, said she hoped the resolution would "facilitate the delivery of aid to people in desperate need".
The Commission recognised the severe impact of piracy acts on humanitarian, commercial and fishing vessels off the coast of Somalia and noted that the range of the attacks extended towards almost all of the western Indian Ocean, notably toward Kenya and Seychelles, with attacks being reported in their respective EEZ.
Several of the witnesses, while in some cases corroborating specific smuggling charges, testified that the church workers acted out of humanitarian motives.
The independent report held the UN and the Dutch government partially responsible for the fiasco, stating that while they had acted out of humanitarian ideals, they had put Dutch forces in an impossible position by not providing proper armaments and a clear mandate.
