Sentence examples for human repercussions from inspiring English sources

He is told by men well-practised in violence that it is crucial to "think of the issues, not the people", but the novel is a brilliant demonstration of the impossibility of divorcing ideas from their human repercussions.

Amitava Kumar, a professor of English at Vassar College, picks up that sentence and runs quite far with it in "A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb," his perceptive and soulful — if at times academic — meditation on the global war on terror and its cultural and human repercussions.

I think it's an incredibly personal look at the financial, familial and human repercussions of the fastest growing major economy in the world and an achingly beautiful piece about modern life in China.

This was a bill passed through the US government (cleverly stuck between a bunch of funding projects that required approval in order to release funds to government members) that removes all liability of negative environmental and human repercussions that could come from the production and use of Monsanto products. .

Junger's documentary shows how Hetherington learned his trade photographing the human rights repercussions of the Liberian civil war, which ended in 2003.

He had established his reputation covering the human rights repercussions of civil war in West Africa and his images once provoked former Liberian president Charles Taylor to dispatch two hit squads to assassinate him.

The fighting forces might be wiped out, but the end of the battle will not mean the end of the [Tigers] or their striking potential," said Hogg. "There will be severe human rights repercussions for any civilians suspected of being affiliated to or sympathetic to the [Tigers].

We show the importance of reliability assessment and long term strains of materials, especially for public constructions where the human and economic repercussions are heavy to bear.

Environmental trends over recent decades show deterioration on several fronts, the report says, with adverse repercussions for human development (defined by the UN as "the expansion of people's freedoms and capabilities to lead lives that they value and have reason to value"), especially for the millions of people who depend directly on natural resources for their livelihoods.

So, in today's charged climate, what keeps Mr. Romero up at night? "I worry about another attack and the loss of human life, then the repercussions that would follow with a second attack, with a further curtailment of civil liberties and civil rights," he says.

That's led to the rise of disposable "fast fashion," which has negative repercussions on human rights and the environment.