Sentence examples for humane possibility from inspiring English sources

I'll admit the first episode, about the death penalty and numerous attempts to make it not "cruel and unusual", made me cringe – as a non-American, I find any discussion of the death penalty as a humane possibility abhorrent – but it is undoubtedly fascinating.

It was the century too of totalitarianism: Communist, Fascist, and Nazi; and of techniques of terrorism that, if not novel, reached a scale and an intensity of scientific application that could scarcely have been predicted by those who considered science and technology as unqualifiedly humane in possibility.

This compassionate and distinctive work is a combination of single-minded legal drama and humane consciousness raising possibilities.

The story reaffirms the author's passionately held ideology, which is tinged with anarchism, denies any possibility of humane politics, and, with Useppe's death, apparently excludes any final hope for humanity.

To be clear, I am not suggesting that health providers in Guatemala, or anywhere, should spend their time lecturing patients about the structural inequalities shaping access to healthy food or safe outdoor spaces, or to the possibility of humane work schedules that leave time and energy for physical activity.

My heart opened up to the possibility of meeting humane HR leaders throughout the 2.5-day conference.

She's a mother more concerned with preservation over justice, Ermestine moral ambiguities feel convincingly humane; she imagines far worse possibilities — including one where she's put in a breeding farm where she's "forced to have a dozen babies I'll never get to hold" — in a revealing conversation.

This was more than twenty years ago, when I was a graduate student, but I can still summon the emotional jolt, and the riveting sense of fiction's possibilities that Trevor's humane, wry, frank, and often melancholy worldview excited in me.

Hertzberg wrote: A nice, tidy, rational, sensible, humane Canadian-style system is not a possibility.

To that end, we continue to discuss with other governments the possibility of transferring detainees once humane treatment and continuing threat concerns have been satisfactorily addressed by the receiving country," a Pentagon spokesman, Greg Hicks, said in an e-mail message.

But, given the American political system, in which powerful interest groups can block change at vulnerable points in Congress, and given the constellation of political forces in the United States at the moment, a nice, tidy, rational, sensible, humane Canadian-style system is not a possibility.