Where once the revolutionary church had preached a message of human freedom in the face of the Roman oppressor, now, as Rome's official religion, it described human nature as inherently sinful, fallen, infirm, and in need of the absolute authority of the state's moral institution, the church.
Amnesty International describes human rights violations on "an unprecedented scale".
There is a word we use in South Africa that describes human relationships: Ubuntu.
A fêlure can be the crack in a hard surface — Flaubert describes human speech as a "cracked iron kettle".
Herodotus' work describes human beings not as political animals but as prisoners of their nature and their place in history.
The HF describes human population pressure, land use and infrastructure, and access.
This report describes human research.
In the 1996 novel The Story of B, environmentalist author Daniel Quinn spends a chapter on the metaphor of the boiling frog, using it to describe human history, population growth and food surplus.
Tolstoy and Virgil — and, come to think of it, Margaret Mitchell — credibly describe human beings driven by ambition, greed, drunkenness and fickle lust.
It describes how human activities can impose different types of burdens and impacts on global sustainability [6].
