Sentence examples for humane means from inspiring English sources

Next year, Mr. Yilmaz said, the authorities will consider more humane means of killing, including electric shock.

The work is indeed a classic example of a philosopher's vivisection of society, imposing by relatively humane means the rule of a high-minded minority.

He solved the same problems of the depression, unemployment, the financial crash that gave rise to fascist dictatorships in Europe, but through democratic and humane means.

The responsible and humane means to manage this forced exile is to use Nato/UN to facilitate transport, shelter and food for the refugees.

If that isn't enough, there is also the pragmatic argument that most experienced interrogators think that the same information, or better, can be obtained through legal and humane means.

However, the legitimacy of state killing for some was at least partially secured by the introduction of the lethal injection in 1982, which was vaunted as a humane means of death.

A space alien, reading their e-mails, might conclude that "humane" meant cowardly, or callous, or conveniently craven, or sympathetic only to those in one's own social or professional circle.

Buying "humane meat" means supporting an industry that treats animals as nothing more than units on an assembly line -- a means to an end.

Taking such a small step will not only be rewarding for students and professors, but will make the university a little less corporate and a little more humane, which means, that everyone benefits.

Being asked to support humane meat means being asked to support the suffering of animals in transport, to approve of treatment that causes them palpable fear, their bodies shaking and their eyes wide as saucers, as they are slung by their legs into crates that are slammed onto the back of a truck.

The word 'philanthropy' comes from the Greek word philanthropia "philia, friendship or phileo, love + anthropos, human" and means benevolence, kind-heartedness, humane feeling, kindliness, courtesy, or gods' love for humans (Liddell and Scott, 1940, s.w. philia; philanthropia).