Sentence examples for human membership from inspiring English sources

Cynthia Ozick's article notwithstanding ("Prize or Prejudice," Op-Ed, June 7), writing is not a competitive or comparative endeavor; nor is a writer best identified by a group association, be it gender, race, age or any other such human membership.

Dignity grants the human being membership in two communities, in the moral commonwealth – in the community of all human beings – and in a state.

By introducing the latter condition (human species membership), such a view can establish FMS not only for infants and severely cognitively impaired human beings but even for fetuses and permanently unconscious human beings.

Thus, this account should not make human species membership a necessary condition for FMS, but rather be disjunctive: having sophisticated cognitive capacities or belonging to the human species is necessary and sufficient for FMS.

In the kinds of small scale societies that have characterised most of human history, membership of the same community will typically also identify shared kinship as well as identifying the subset of people on whom one's ability to survive and reproduce ultimately depend.

If the PEC applied only to humans, then membership in Homo sapiens would count as a morally relevant characteristic on the basis of which one could favour the interests of humans over the like interests of animals.

Unfortunately, he continues to exclude the tiniest human beings from membership in the human family, and now promotes their depersonalization, exploitation and destruction for research purposes.

American-owned car firms have recently been rehiring at their unionised plants, as sales of vehicles have picked up, but as at other manufacturers, automation will continue reducing the need for human workers.Although union membership has held steady in America's public sector, in private businesses it has fallen sharply since official figures were first kept in the early 1980s (see chart).

Bidzina Ivanishvili, the Georgian prime minister, made a speech on Independence Day, May 26th, highlighting the challenges facing Georgia: "democratic values, human rights, EU and NATO membership, mending ties with neighboring countries, de-occupation, establishment rule of law, free judiciary and free media .Domestically, the prime minister is not avoiding confrontation.

Democrats wanted to tie up Russia's G8 membership with human rights issues in Russia, for instance.

Support for Benenson's campaign quickly spread, and by 2005 Amnesty International was the world's largest human rights organization, with membership soaring to 1.8 million in more than 160 countries.