Sentence examples for subhuman that from inspiring English sources

Torture is the use of excessive force, often at the cost of treating the tortured as subhuman, that will temporarily or permanently alter a sense of ego, self, and personhood.

Ending a visit here in September, Sir Nigel Rodley, a representative of the United Nations, said that what he had seen was so "grotesque" and "subhuman" that "I almost retched".

"They think of us as so subhuman that we would routinely do something that is almost always a ticket into humiliation, degradation, shame, punishment and excisement from our community".

He's spinning the bus attack as confirmation that the Hairies are "dangerous subhumans" that need to be segregated and contained securely within an area known as "the Zone".

They urge "progress in shifting the perception of chimpanzees as frivolous subhumans that are not in danger of extinction to more scientifically accurate characterizations of our closest relatives that stir interest, respect, and conservation efforts".

"When you go and get incarcerated, you become part of that subhuman world that exists in prisons," Imam Thabbit Iddin, a volunteer chaplain at Rikers, told the crowd.

In it, African-Americans are portrayed as subhuman beings that were well-treated and happy under slavery, singing and dancing during the "two-hour interval given for dinner".

In Matthew Stover's novelization of Revenge of the Sith, Count Dooku anticipates the coming of the new government: "A government clean, pure, direct: none of the messy scramble for the favor of ignorant rabble and subhuman creatures that made up the Republic he so despised.

According to the political scientist R J Rummel, the Pakistani army looked upon the Bengalis as "subhuman" and that the Hindus were "as Jews to the Nazis, scum and vermin that best be exterminated".

Then there's the video, which was posted yesterday of Ghomeshi in the 90s, where he derides his fans, who "make him sick" as subhuman "bugs" that he has zero respect for.

Should the situation continue, he said, "our citizens will become divided between predators, free in the criminal jungle, and subhumans, conscious that they are only prey".