Sentence examples for confront humankind from inspiring English sources
A sporting contest, even one on such a scale as this, cannot obscure the severity of the challenges that confront humankind.
Instead, Mr. McLean said, it is a setting for world leaders to come together to address "the big problems confronting humankind".
He spoke instead of his preoccupation with the challenges confronting humankind, including the risks posed by arms proliferation, global warming, and food scarcities.
The answers may not have been convincing and may not have been pretty, because nuclear war is possibly the ugliest prospect that has ever confronted humankind.
This is true even of his 1871 book The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex in which Darwin finally forced himself to confront the implications of his theory for the origin of humankind, and the main title of which is in many ways something of a teaser.
Humankind is confronted with a "nuclear stewardship curse", facing the prospect of needing to manage nuclear products over long time scales in the face of the short-time scales of human polities.
The human immunodeficiency virus, first identified in the early 1980s, presents one of the most devastating health challenges humankind has ever confronted.
9/11 (and every crisis humankind confronts) teaches us that comfort in the face of life's challenges is not a luxury but a necessity.
