Sentence examples for assault on human from inspiring English sources

Trying to limit this devastating assault on human health is one of the most pressing challenges in current medicine.

The elimination of life and assault on human dignity dictated by the one-child policy belong with the worst tragedies of the past 100 years.

This attack is an assault on human dignity.

The UN secretariat seems unable to resist this 21st-century assault on human freedom.

It is time for the UK government to come out and publicly condemn this assault on human rights".

Miles Gloriosus is a comic assault on human vanity and self-importance, as manifested in the persona of an absurdly swaggering military officer.

Take the Musharraf assault on human-rights lawyers.

Robert Palmer of Global Witness, an anti-corruption group, says: "The Magnitsky case has opened the door to a wider assault on human-rights abusers".Too far, too fast, too newThe administration was unhappy at first about the bills, arguing that they were unnecessary as the State Department already withheld visas from such people and excessive, because they tie the hands of policymakers.

In an interview today, Mr. Cortez cited several recent incidents of assaults on human rights investigators in Chiapas, including one lawyer whose home was set on fire and another who was nearly run down by a speeding vehicle.

Methods like these were banned in U.S. criminal investigations years ago, because, in the Supreme Court's language, they "shock the conscience". Assaults on human dignity are not who we are or what we stand for.

Let's be perfectly clear: the Second Vatican Council's Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, No. 27, mentions torture in the same clause as abortion and genocide as assaults on human life and dignity.