Sentence examples for dehumanise from inspiring English sources

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dehumanise

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Kagame has accused the corporation of "genocide denial" in the documentary, which he said it had chosen to "tarnish Rwandans, dehumanise them".

But these are not random acts by misguided or crazed individuals, says the UN; they are a "deliberate attempt to dehumanise and destroy entire communities".That process is proceeding apace.

In the 18th century, as in the present day, it was a way to advertise and dehumanise women, ignore their personal circumstances and reduce them to commodities.Caroline Frankau LondonSIR – You take it as axiomatic that prostitutes will become more empowered as the internet makes pimps obsolete.

Computers thus "rehumanise", not dehumanise.

They have undergone initiations to dehumanise them, being made to kill other children or their own parents.

If we are going to be serious about dealing with the social issues around war and its human costs, we might consider stripping away the layers of military mystification and fantasy which only serve to dehumanise and diminish veterans and soldiers.

Rape, and its use to dehumanise, lies at the heart of Jolie's shocking film.

All those dead bodies were a terrible thing – the only way we could get through it was to dehumanise them.

And the more you dehumanise a group of people, the more society develops an entitled attitude towards that group – and whether that manifests itself as an entitlement to judge the body itself, judge the person's lifestyle, or as harassment, it's all part of the same picture.

[Journalists] dehumanise the people who live there because they reduce them to some abstract notion".

The word is used to dehumanise people with learning difficulties,  then to sanction in twisted minds abuse, bullying and savagery.

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