Sentence examples for confronting mankind from inspiring English sources

Examples include threats to marine ecosystems, unsustainable production and consumption practices, climate change, obesity, inadequate health care – many of the large-scale environmental and social problems confronting mankind.

Changing the way you think about food waste will help us find simple solutions to the critical challenges confronting mankind, and the planet on which we all depend.

The tale of three other-worldly musicians who bring a message of peace to the earth, this film is an anthology of the creation myths of the world's primitive cultures and a cautionary fable about the dangers confronting mankind in the eternal play of good and evil in the world.

Calling the threat posed by nuclear and other unconventional weapons "the ultimate problem" confronting mankind, Mr. Buffett said yesterday that he had decided to give the group, the Washington-based Nuclear Threat Initiative, $2.5 millioverver five years and become an adviser to its board.

Since the discovery of photoelectrochemical water splitting at a semiconductor surface in 1972, great progress has been made in the research of photocatalytic degradation of organic pollutants for solving environmental problems that confront mankind today.

Cardiovascular diseases confront mankind with vast and daunting health and financial burdens.

Pope Francis warned that the world is heading for "unprecedented destruction" unless mankind confronts climate change and reforms the way it treats the planet, as the most eagerly anticipated papal document in living memory was leaked.

Indeed, it can arguably be said that confronting a new and discomforting order in the world is currently the primary psychic business of mankind.

Far better to confront the idiocies of mankind head-on than to retreat into comforting banalities and warming platitudes.

"We deny that the only form of government which now confronts the choice of mankind is that of a totalitarian state, of one form of 'ism' or another".

VATICAN CITY, Nov. 30 — Atheism may be "understandable" when mankind is confronted with evil and suffering, Pope Benedict XVI wrote in his second encyclical, issued on Friday.