Example sentences for: humanity

How can you use “humanity” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In the International Herald Tribune, the Australian Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer, appealed Thursday for the establishment of a permanent International Criminal Court to try those accused of crimes against humanity.

  • In a figurative way, Yiddish is the wise and humble language of us all, the idiom of a frightened and hopeful humanity.

  • Isaac Asimov, in his futuristic Foundation Trilogy novels, imagined a thickly settled universe where the familiar "24-hour day" is an accepted convention, presumably based on the rotation of humanity's planet of origin--but where no one remembers any longer what the original planet was.

  • A U.N. tribunal found five ethnic Croats guilty of "persecution" and crimes against humanity for their role in ethnic cleansing in Bosnia.

  • In Paris, Le Figaro accused the United Nations of "letting Timor founder in chaos"; and Le Monde , calling it "an Asian Kosovo," named Portugal, Australia, and the United States as the countries which are morally obliged to form the kernel of a rapid intervention force "to stop Indonesia carrying out a new crime against humanity."


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