Sentence examples for human improvements from inspiring English sources

The sensitive and observant author of two travel books on the former Soviet Union explores Siberia, a strong candidate for worst place on earth, both for its natural gifts and for human improvements.

The sensitive and observant author of two travel books on the former Soviet Union explores a strong candidate for worst place on earth, both for its natural gifts and for human improvements.

Passage of the act ensured that no human improvements would take place aside from those already existing.

That there is something deeply flawed with this version of human improvement ought to obvious.

Israel, in just 60 years, has become a fast-moving locomotive for human improvement.

Twenty-first century believers in human improvement can surely find a better way to practise their faith.

Before the 18th century, the civilised traveller looked for marks of civilisation; a wild landscape was viewed only as a place unmarked by human improvement.

There are many bad and lamentable forces in the world today, but it is those that undermine the belief in human improvement that are demonised as "evil".

Meanwhile French thinkers like Voltaire, Condorcet and Turgot converted the Christian idea of spiritual progress into a vision of rational human improvement unhindered by religious superstition.

Like the obsidian mirrors made by the Aztecs for purposes of divination, these rows of graphs and numbers contain nebulous images of the future – visions that by their very indistinctness can give comfort to believers in human improvement.

The items in this Budget covering programs directly related to human improvement and the reduction of mass poverty and deprivation allocate far too small a portion of our total national production to these great purposes.