Sentence examples for generation of humanity from inspiring English sources
Today, an entire generation of humanity has been brutalised – whether it experiences mass slaughter, rape and torture firsthand, or whether it simply sees the pictures and hears the stories.
According to traditional Jewish eschatological expectation, the beneficiaries of the divine development of the world would be only the members of the last generation of humanity who were fortunate enough to experience the arrival of the messiah upon earth; all earlier generations would be consumed with the longing for fulfillment but would die without experiencing it.
In connection with the transcending of the expectation of the Kingdom of God, however, even anticipations of resurrection voiced earlier by Zoroastrianism were achieved: the Kingdom of God was to include within itself in the state of resurrection all the faithful of every generation of humanity.
It raises generation after generation of humanity.
While it's possible that those who aspire to less enjoy life more, I have no doubt that every generation of humanity has had its ass kicked by reality.
"What the present generation of humanity has to do in order to deal with climate change as an economic challenge is trivial compared with what our parents and grandparents did to defeat Nazism in the Second World War.
David Barclay, president of Oxford University's Student Union (OUSU) told dons: "I speak for a generation of humanities students who may never get to use the new facilities they desperately need because the capital fund has dried up, all the public funding for building has been slashed and our fundraising is focused on bursaries and fee waivers.
Indeed, the organization -- whose list of recent guest speakers includes Breyten Breytenbach, the expatriate South African writer; Jessica Yu, a documentary filmmaker; Daniel Pipes, a specialist on Arab affairs; and the novelist Michael Cunningham -- was among the first generation of humanities institutes in the nation.
Last month, I joined more than 180 progressive academics, scientists, activists and public intellectuals in an open letter expressing concern over how new gene editing techniques allow for heritable human genetic modification: changes to the human genome that could irrevocably alter the future generations of humanity.
Your family's Bible, your grandmother's cookbook, your favorite childhood volume – these are all important objects, and generations of humanity have spent a lot of time thinking about how we can make it better.
The best way to live with them, then, and to make them as wisely as possible, is to be honest with ourselves about what we're doing — rather than holding out hope that we, alone out of all the generations of humanity, are about to find a way to have everything we want.
