Sentence examples for on humankind from inspiring English sources

Among everyday concerns about the environment, such as global warming and adverse weather, seem to be concerns that nature may one day just decide to take revenge on humankind.

Malevolent boxes abound in horror movies (the Rubik's Cube-like container of "Hellraiser" being one of the most memorable), their contents inevitably wreaking havoc on humankind.

Julia had never seen this tale of nature rising to revenge itself on humankind.

"It is a social cancer and a plague on humankind," the notice said.

The ascent of Elohim entailed pain for Eden, whose consequent anger brought ills on humankind.

Everyone agrees that the bombings wreaked an enormous toll on humankind.

It heralds a new generation of renewable fuels and chemicals, based on one of humankind's earliest uses of biotechnology.

There is a parallel, as Comte saw it, between the evolution of thought patterns in the entire history of humankind, on the one hand, and in the history of an individual's development from infancy to adulthood, on the other.

In The Gospel According to Matthew, Jesus says to his Apostles, when the Son of Man comes in majesty to render final judgment on all of humankind, he will say to the chosen ones on his right hand: "I was sick and you visited me," and to the condemned on his left hand: "I was sick and you did not visit me".

The Buddha of Suburbia is his most engaging read; the short-story collection Love in a Blue Time is painfully spot-on about humankind's less attractive emotions.

On the one hand, humankind is the active agent of technological thinking, so humankind is not merely a passive element.