Sentence examples for confronting humankind from inspiring English sources

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.

This remarkable book offers a sweeping overview of the challenges of global environmental governance that now confront humankind.

A sporting contest, even one on such a scale as this, cannot obscure the severity of the challenges that confront humankind.

They road trip together across Death Valley, confronting the grave state of our earth and humankind while maintaining a levity that made me forgive the film's didactic flashes and get swept up by the sheer beauty of our present moment.

All of this misses or trivialises the real, systemic significance of climate change: that humankind is encountering the finitude of our planet, confronting the need to share and protect our endowment from nature, and realising that much will have to change to make this possible.

"Confronting Zionists will also pave the way for saving the whole humankind from exploitation, depravity and misery".

Although the Olympic Charter sets a goal to "put sport at the service of the harmonious development of humankind," the Olympics have never been especially adept at confronting political conflict.

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.

Is it not true that these claims of a higher morality are nothing more than an understandable and ageless human fear that immobilizes humankind when confronted by the face of danger?

So here were two selves confronting each other — one self unknown to itself — at least one of which was self-aware enough to ask humankind's most existential question.