Sentence examples for our humanist from inspiring English sources

Where are these politicians who now threaten baseball's antitrust exemption when one of our humanist corporations lays off 10,000 "fans" to protect itself on the stock exchange?

Talking animals present a challenge to our humanist bearings, which is what Plutarch was getting at with his yapping pig Gryllus in his essay "On the Use of Reason by 'Irrational' Animals".

Kurtz mentioned some years back that this goal is not limited to our humanist minority.

But when we get our humanist knickers in a knot over pencils or crèches, I fear we give the strenuously faithful an opening to characterize all secularists as nasty little scolds.

Because of that, Fred Trotter of O'Reilly Radar warns, "We are outsourcing decisions to a virtual entity which has none of our humanist notions of fairness or a sense of fair play".

Although relational strategies spring from purpose- and meaningful activity, prolonged sedimentation thus seem to make them manifest with a degree of automaticity and stubbornness that challenges our conventional, humanist conceptions of agency and intentionality: Sometimes our habitual use of technologies inclines us do things we do not intend to do.

"Respect and co-operation between cultural and religious identities in Italy must constitute the basis for a dialogue that enriches democracy, promoting the aims of peace, social cohesion and unity, and that fosters a community of those who…intend to contribute to the peaceful development and prosperity of our country, in full compliance with our laws and our Christian and humanist tradition".

Or at least architecture is a field in which it is still possible to embody our technology in humanist form.

Our democracy was built upon the affirmation of universal values," he adds, and France's destiny is to enact "our universal and humanist dream".Such florid romanticism may provoke derision on the other side of the Atlantic, never mind how closely it parallels Mr Bush's belief in his duty to spread freedom.

We cannot promise specific political and social results without undermining our credibility as humanists (or even posthumanists) willing to critically examine our own presuppositions.

One of the things that makes Lovecraft so distinctive is the horror he finds in the idea of infinitely deep time and space and the knowledge of a monstrously indifferent universe alien to our little world of humanist values.