In too many tellings, the truce is hailed as something between a protest and a premonition: a declaration of shared humanity by ordinary soldiers, before heartless commanders sent them to their deaths.
Literacy was in its own way a declaration of independence and humanity for a people long denied both.
This violence against protesters resulted in arout 150 deaths, scores of women raped in public, and the declaration of crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Echoing Dyne's earlier declaration on the strength of humanity, Alex's team attacks and defeats Ghaleon as his fortress crumbles around them.
Was it a declaration of idealism, of faith in humanity despite everything, or was it "an act of extreme sarcasm", having children sing of values whose hollowness was being exposed just yards away?
Unesco (in their Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights) absurdly endorses the notion of the preservation of the human genome as common heritage of humanity.
We have an array of examples of those who have acted in contravention of the Declaration of Geneva to consecrate their lives "to the service of humanity".
Islamic orthodoxy, looking upon revelation as a declaration of the divine will, stresses not so much the communion of humanity with God as rather humanity's obedient submission to the Creator.
The report has also set the scene for a range of subsequent international conferences, declarations, and protocols many of them maintaining the emphasis on the prospects for the future of humanity, rather than considering sustainability in any wider sense.
He began: Bryan, with this declaration, set the theme of his argument, and as it would prove, his campaign: that the welfare of humanity was at stake with the silver issue.
