Sentence examples for course of humanity from inspiring English sources

Much as he admired the sweep and ambition of such pioneers of sociology as Spencer and Comte (whose emphasis on the "consensus of experts" was appropriated for his epistemological work), he regarded their "sciences" of the laws of human development as absurdly over-blown, yielding wildly different predictions about the future course of humanity.

Mr Woods's late father got carried away and said his son would "do more than any other man in history to change the course of humanity".

His father, Earl Woods, even went so far as to call him "the Chosen One" and claimed that he would "do more than any other man to change the course of humanity".

Over the top with pride, his father, Earl, was quoted calling him "the Chosen One" and prophesying that Tiger would "do more than any other man in history to change the course of humanity".

Many of the details about his behavior are not new: pushing Tiger to practice for hours a day when he was two; booking him on "The Mike Douglas Show" before he turned three; claiming, ridiculously, the year Tiger turned pro, that his son "will do more than any other man in history to change the course of humanity".

The possibility of such gene networks shifting their interrelationships wholesale in the course of humanity's brief foray across the globe, and being skewed in significant ways according to "race" is "a bogus idea," said Dr. Aravinda Chakravarti, a geneticist at Case Western University in Cleveland.

Most people in the West take for granted Lim's stance on humanity, but in the course of human history, humanity has always coexisted with its counter-ideologies.

The progressive assumption seems to be that it is fine to have an attachment to friends and family, and perhaps a neighbourhood or a city – "I'm proud to be a Londoner" – and, of course, to humanity as a whole.

"Of course, one definition of humanity is, that which comes from a human mother is human," he adds.

And yet rather than responding with alarm and doing everything in our power to change course, large parts of humanity are, quite consciously, continuing down the same road.

Of course, while most of humanity lives near a body of water, not all of us do.