Sentence examples for guise of human from inspiring English sources

Those who support the bills say many NGOs are political groups working under the guise of human rights to "delegitimise Israel".

Uganda's Ethics Minister, James Buturo, last week cancelled a regional conference of sex workers due to take place in Entebbe on the grounds the women were promoting criminality under the guise of human rights.

"The bill will put an end to the rampage by NPOs [non-profit organisations] who are trying to subvert the state under the guise of human rights," Ronit Tirosh, an MP from the centrist opposition Kadima party, told the Ma'ariv newspaper.

The Easter Island figure who sits bolt upright in a railroad train, the fragment of striped wallpaper that doubles as a forest, the diagrams from a manual of chemistry that glare at us in the guise of human beings - all these and many others are part of the furniture of our imaginations from the moment we set eyes on them.

"What is happening in Syria is part of a new episode of colonialism, even if it is hidden under the guise of human rights," it says.

Furthermore, the demand from many Western human rights NGOs that developing countries should abide by the same labor standards in the West would effectively wipe out their comparative advantages, which is equivalent to erecting trade protectionism under the guise of human rights, even if it means plunging tens of millions of workers in low income countries into unemployment.

"When I read 'The Iliad' I realized it's true — the gods come down in the guise of humans".

In this Hogwarts meets "True Blood" universe, the community's sheriff is the Big Bad Wolf, who now goes by Bigby and takes the guise of a human.

What we are witnessing is the import into the UK of a group which under the guise of Hindu human rights is practising censorship for which there is no sanction in Hindu religion.

Saudi officials have accused critics of interfering in the Gulf kingdom's domestic affairs "under the guise of defending human rights".

"Interference in domestic affairs under the guise of defending human rights is in fact an attack on our sovereignty," said Abdul Aziz Alwasil, the kingdom's permanent representative in Geneva.