Sentence examples for assertions of human from inspiring English sources

Fourth, most assertions of human rights though arguably not all (freedom from slavery, genocide, or torture are notable exceptions)—are qualified by the limitation that the rights of individuals or groups in particular instances are restricted as much as is necessary to secure the comparable rights of others and the aggregate common interest.

After his initial general discussion of rebellion against slavery and oppression, in the historical and largest section of the book he treats actual historical assertions of human dignity as little more than efforts to overthrow God.

Gradually, the authority of a wrathful God is undermined by the assertion of human accountability.

The assertion of human rights is important, but alone they make for a pretty thin creed.

A whole new field has been opened up for the assertion of human control over human destiny.

But that assertion of human kindness does not prevent him, on the following page, from repeating the canard which he is pleased to report Prescott found most painful.

His insistence is on guilt as the evidence of man's fate, and on the possibility of expiation as the assertion of human freedom.

The Charleston Courier, for example, rejected the Declaration's assertion of human equality ("the barefaced and transparent fallacies with which the production of Mr. Jefferson opens"), but maintained that secession faithfully enacted the Declaration's principle of self-government.

He was already seeking a way of overcoming nihilism, and his second novel, La Peste (1947; The Plague), is a symbolical account of the fight against an epidemic in Oran by characters whose importance lies less in the (doubtful) success with which they oppose the epidemic than in their determined assertion of human dignity and fraternity.

For the founders, protecting the freedom of religious belief was, first and foremost, an empirical assertion, on the level of the "self-evident" assertion of human equality.

Shortcomings and future work: The projected assessments have not yet been evaluated against the assertions of a human expert about the patients' health state after treatment.