Sentence examples for human contingent from inspiring English sources

Even so, The Monuments Men shifts so rapidly from place to place, art gallery to cathedral, museum to storage pit, that its human contingent remain ciphers.

The performers move about on a mostly bare stage, suggesting, without being too definite, organisms of various species populating the earth and a human contingent exploring, settling, mastering, and running amok.

Any law which makes our human rights contingent on our bankbooks is equally unjust.

The answer to this question is thought to depend on whether the chemical periodicity seen to occur among the elements has an underlying truth, effectively hard-wired into the universe, or if any such periodicity is instead the product of subjective human interpretation, contingent upon the circumstances, beliefs and predilections of human observers.

The "no such thing as global warming" crowd spoke up; the "global warming isn't human-driven" contingent was heard from.

But again, Morrow knows better than to locate evil with gods or demons, and he keeps the focus of this mystery where it belongs -- on the ever flawed and contingent human will.

At the opposite end of the spectrum we find the physicalist who sees human nature as contingent and finite.

At the beginning of his Opera logica, Zabarella draws a distinction between the eternal world of nature and the contingent human world.

Sandman [ 25], for example, refers to human dignity and contingent dignity.

The future of gene therapy in humans, however, is contingent upon the discovery of safe and effective carriers of genetic material.

"My success or failure as a human being had become contingent on making that Olympic team".