Sentences with phrase «force on all of humanity»

A group of graduate students and scientists uncover an ancient canister in an abandoned church, but when they open it, they inadvertently unleash a strange liquid and an evil force on all of humanity.

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While the forces at work here may smack of a Jungian «collective unconscious» shared by all humanity, Orlando's analysis depends on the vagaries of history.

He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»

It is, at least, apparent that the debates about humanitarian intervention by military force in the last decade, about the creation of international criminal tribunals in a number of cases, about the idea of a state's «universal jurisdiction» in cases of violations of the Genocide Convention or other «crimes against humanity,» about how far the global war on terror may proceed without violating the rights of states, and most recently, about the United - States - led use of force against the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq, have all raised important points of positive and customary international law, and that in every one of these cases the outcome remains unsettled.

When Dorothee Sölle wrote in 1971 of the indivisible salvation of the whole world, she and her readers assumed without reflection that the whole world is the world of human beings.1 But as the seventies progressed and the environmental crisis forced itself on public attention, more and more Christians became troubled about the separation of humanity from the rest of nature.

But the forces based on the national state which resist organizational integration are so strong that currently the prospect for communications satellite organization resembles the order of the jungle more than humanity.

Religion has been a driving force on this planet for thousands of years as we know it and most - likely 10s of thousands of years in more primitive forms — and imagine that humanity has progressed... who would have thunk it...

Stay in the closet and STOP forcing your desires on the rest of humanity.

But in reading Randolph Loney's stories of his friends on Georgia's death row we are forced to acknowledge a simple truth: those whom we have condemned to die are not «aliens,» but individuals who, in their essential humanity, are connected to all of us.

Modernity is represented by three forces - first, the revolution in the relation of humanity to nature, signified by science and technology; second, the revolutionary changes in the concept of justice in the social relations between fellow human beings indicated by the self - awakening of all oppressed and suppressed humans to their fundamental human rights of personhood and peoplehood, especially to the values of liberty and equality of participation in power and society; thirdly, the break - up of the traditional integration of state and society with religion, in response to religious pluralism on the one hand and the affirmation of the autonomy of the secular realm from the control of religion on the other».

It is significant that Vatican II (and also the Uppsala Assembly of the World Council of Churches) defines the church as the sacramental sign of the unity of all humanity, and also speaks of the presence of the Paschal Mystery among all peoples (see Decree on the Church, and the document on the Pastoral Constitution of the Church in the Modern World) This approach assumes that in Christianity, acknowledgment of Salvation (understood as the transcendent ultimate destiny of human beings) finds expression and witness in the universal struggle for Humanization (understood as the penultimate human destiny) in world history which is shaped not only by the forces of goodness and life, but also by the forces of evil and death.

We are the only force we can rely on to raise humanity above our primitive ways of dividing ourselves.

Gbagbo was eventually defeated by pro-Ouattara forces, backed by the UN and France, and is now awaiting trial before the International Criminal Court in The Hague on charges of crimes against humanity.

Feng shui focuses on architecture in metaphoric terms of «invisible forces» that bind the universe, earth, and humanity together.

There are plenty of talented components to this cast, and most every one of them has his or her time to shine, even such much too briefly present forces as episodes 1's Martin Sheen - who nails both Irish - American accent and depth of the good - hearted slaver who comes to find flaws in the traditions he has had to follow - and episode 3's Richard Jenkin, who effectively despicable in his audacious portrayal of a despicable radical racist who is as willing to die as he is to kill to preserve his questionable sense of order - and plenty of other people in between, from the compelling Dennis Haysbert to the charming Danny Glover, so you know that it's saying something to proclaim that leading lady Halle Berry is this series» strongest performance, delivering on powerful layers and emotional range in her engrossing portrayal of a mulatto who is trapped in society by her mixed race, and will face many unbearable hardships that will test her innocence and humanity.

In these films, the world has usually turned against humanity in some way — a zombie apocalypse, an alien invasion, or simply the indomitability of nature itself — and the relative resourcefulness of characters who were previously reliant on now - absent tools or technologies provide the major dramatic beats as outside forces close in, driving these characters into action.

When a second Earth appears in the sky, apparently populated by exact duplicates of the people on our planet, no one is concerned with silly practical issues of gravitational forces, orbits, or tides; instead, American society erupts into pained soul - searching, wondering what the event means to humanity, and what it would be like for a person to meet their exact duplicate.

The film starred Chris Evans (Captain America) and Tilda Swinton (Trainwreck) as two people on the opposite sides of the socio - economic ladder, after a new ice age forced humanity onto a perpetually moving train in order to survive.

The boy, Kitai, is unprepared for the role of hero when his father's starship crashes on their ancestral home, Earth, a millennium after war and environmental catastrophe forced humanity to evacuate to deep space and fend off new enemies.

The trailer for M Night Shyamalan's «After Earth» has hit the web, giving fans a sneak preview of the disaster - epic that sees Kitai Raige (Jaden Smith) and his father Cypher (Will Smith) stranded on Earth, 1,000 years after cataclysmic events forced humanity to escape.

The movie follows modern day death row inmate Cal Lynch (Michael Fassbender) as he's forced to cybernetically tap into the memories of one of his assassin ancestors in order to find the Apple of Eden so that scheming scientist Alan Rikkin (Jeremy Irons) and his daughter Sophia (Marion Cotillard) may eliminate violence by extinguishing free will on behalf of all humanity.

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In the face of its truth, humanity has for centuries tried to discover in itself evidence that love is the greatest force on earth.

While the game obviously focuses on you as the primary hero in the game, you are basically one among many, working in tandem with a group called BLADE, which acts as a sort of heroic defense force and exploration team for humanity on the planet.

In Blue Reflection, players take on the role of high school student Hinako Shirai who is transported to a mysterious parallel world known as the Common, where she must fight as a Reflector to save humanity from demonic forces called the Sephira.

He is looking to save what remains of humanity on a distant planet called Zircon V from the forces of an evil dictator.

Players will be forced to develop new tactics and technologies of their own, or see humanity's grip on our sectors of the galaxy recede.»

Super Mutant Alien Assault is billed as spiritual successor to Super Crate Box, in which players control a small droid on a mission to defend the last remnants of humanity frozen in cryo - sleep as they flee an alien attack force.

Right now, there's no balance to the force of humanity on the planet, and it is our nature that we organize as a group economically.

Laurie Dougherty, who previously offered a reasoned and impassioned defense of activism as a vital force for progress in the next few decades on humanity's planet, weighs in now with one of the (far too) irregular Dot Earth reader commentaries on books.

Since the calculated flow of silt down the world's rivers is put at 24 billion tons, that means that humanity is now the greatest earth - moving force on Earth.

While humanity has become a force of destruction on the scale of the Chixculub asteroid, Wilson argues that there is a small window of time left to prevent a full - blown «biological holocaust.»

Below are new visual depictions of the forced taxpayer / consumer funding of «green» lobby / activists - literally, billions funneled into anti-democratic organizations with the clear intention of clamping a yoke on the necks of humanity.

The March 2011, 8.9 - magnitude quake off the coast of Japan that caused a tsunami, waves that reached California within twelve hours, moved the island of Japan by about eight feet, and shifted the Earth on its axis by about four inches, this is an example of the magnitude of natural forces — mostly unappreciated by humanity — that are continuously shaping Earth's climate.

Everything I have ever seen on this subject bangs on about the dire effect of ii) for humanity and the planet but never mentions the opposing force of iii).

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