In the pessimistic halls of literary fiction, she speaks up, gently but firmly, for human potential.
His observations, Wilbur explained, "have only convinced me more firmly that human flight is possible and practicable".
The Monte Verde site in Chile is the oldest firmly dated human habitation site in the Americas, at 10,500 bc.
"It was seen in some quarters as a retreat from the image of firmly upholding human rights and was also seen as making our diplomacy subservient to China," said Mr. Bello, the congressman, referring to the decision not to send a representative to the Nobel ceremony.
President Jimmy Carter was instrumental in turning the US foreign policy firmly towards human rights and democracy in what the North considers problematic areas.
The ultimate decision to end life must remain firmly under human control.
He and other climate scientists insist there's still no way to point to any particular meteorological calamity and firmly finger human-caused global warming, despite high confidence that such warming is already well under way.
And this odd hyphenated construction does jolt us, while situating the story of the Exodus somehow more firmly in the human sphere, within the grasp of human imaginative power.
A newborn or infant baby of all primates except humans clings to the mother by grasping her hair firmly, whereas a human baby has nothing to grasp; the mother must hold the baby with both hands, enforcing upright walking.
That drew Archbishop Ncube, then a parish priest, firmly into the human rights arena.
