Sentence examples for confront humanity from inspiring English sources

The Herbert and Nell Singer Fellowship, which she established as a tribute to Herb, is today a fitting legacy of their shared passion for scientific investigation and their belief in the importance of basic research in providing answers to the many health problems that confront humanity.

Eventually, however, an Earth-bound NEO of some size will confront humanity with a disaster movie scenario.

There will be a never ending set of potential catastrophes that confront humanity and the way we will avoid succumbing to those catastrophes is well-educated kids that have the appropriate perspective and judgment as to how to use that education and their technology for good.  .

Nor does he worry about the future of the theater: "Theater is the place where we come to confront humanity.

Like Borlaug, who remained an outspoken supporter of genetic modification up until the end, Bill Gates is a believer in the power of science to tackle the ever-evolving problems that confront humanity.

If business is to regain the trust of society, it must start to tackle the big social and environmental issues that confront humanity, especially at a time when governments seem increasingly to be caught in shorter and shorter election cycles and have a hard time internalizing the global challenges in an increasingly interdependent world.

Technology should not be perceived in a "Frankensteinian light," as Mr. Lanier rightly says, but the real danger is when it is presented as a futuristic solution to whatever problem confronts humanity.

Many of the challenges confronting humanity -- homelessness, drug abuse, hunger, recidivism, even mental illness -- she asserts, "have to do with not being able to take care of ourselves in a society that only values you on what you have".

Even, you could argue, confronting humanity itself.

For the past 32 years, the goal of the WEF annual meeting has been the same: to be "the event where the leading issues confronting humanity are discussed and debated".

Motherboard sat down with the United States' most famous and surely busiest former vice president at this year's Social Good Summit, where we talked about two possible futures Gore sees confronting humanity. .