Sentence examples for called humanitarian from inspiring English sources

The idea was called humanitarian intervention.

They have usually been granted "exceptional leave to remain" or what is now called "humanitarian protection".

He said he was aware that there had been what he called humanitarian contacts between Venezuelan officials and Colombian rebels.

A volunteer effort called Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) improves maps with information from locals and hosts "mapathons" to identify objects shown in satellite images.

Another MoMA show was "Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement," which presented examples of what it called humanitarian design.

In fact, the Minister had definitely renounced them on what he called humanitarian grounds, and he was always telling people about these grounds.

"You could call humanitarian the education bill".

Rieff spent much of his career chronicling what he calls "humanitarian emergencies," in which that memory has been weaponized to deepen grievances and to consolidate a tribe.

The scenes of suffering that we tend to call humanitarian crises are almost always symptoms of political circumstances, and there's no apolitical way of responding to them — no way to act without having a political effect.

Mr. Axworthy said that a year ago, just after Mr. Annan's groundbreaking speech to the General Assembly, Canada offered to pay for a program within the United Nations to study the legality and the implications of what diplomats call "humanitarian intervention".

Emphasis is on what humanitarians call "complex humanitarian emergencies": crises often characterized by famine and/or epidemic disease and typically the result of war and/or civil war.