Sentence examples for ground of humanity from inspiring English sources
Transformed by their experiences, these men and women often found within themselves unknown reserves of courage and discovered a common ground of humanity as they shared their hopes and fears with loved ones back home.
The Times, describing the "hollow-eyed" delegates, concluded that "if this convention had been a fight it would long ago have been stopped by the referee on the ground of humanity".
The commission's anthology of learned answers was predictable and unsatisfying: social, economic and physical disparities, it maintained, had created such a psychological gulf that "player regarded fan as 'the other' and fan objectified the player as a cartoon figure, thus removing any common ground of humanity and empathy".
I think that this is something that probably has a common ground with any culture or religion where there is a common ground of humanity.
We shared the common ground of humanity, respect and doing the right thing.
Wilson at first appealed to the Germans on broad grounds of humanity to abandon submarine warfare, but in the subsequent negotiations he narrowed the issue to one of safety for unarmed passenger liners against violent underseas attack.
Watch Philip in Happiness, Magnolia, Capote, Mission Impossible III, Charlie Wilson's War, and Doubt, and you'll see the strength of an American actor playing seemingly soft-spoken characters, while delivering gut punch after gut punch with his deeply grounded understanding of humanity.
On grounds of common humanity and decency things need to be put right.
In making this claim, Locke was arguing against both the Augustinian view of man, which grounds its conception of humanity in original sin, and the Cartesian position, which holds that man innately knows basic logical propositions.
Crummell's conclusion follows directly, and black Americans are justified in claiming "equal and entire rights" with other citizens "on the ground of our common humanity" ("New York Convention Address," 203).
Their power is derived from control of resources in the ground and the resources of humanity atop it.
