Sentences with phrase «horrible human toll»

And that's why those representatives from the Heartland Institute have been meeting with Vatican officials, quixotically trying to persuade them that Pope Francis has been terribly misinformed — even though he's already witnessed, personally, the horrible human toll that climate change can take.

It was, ironically, the ghastly violence and horrible human toll of the World War I that first inspired such assertive calls, calls that characterized gay rights movements around the world in the 20th century.