Sentences with phrase «less than human»

You see, this becomes the polar opposite of aiming a barrage of attack that suggests that your partner happens to come across as less than human.

As one example, African - Americans throughout history have been treated as less than human.

Twitter will also permanently suspend accounts where profile information includes violent threats and racist or sexist tropes, that incite fear, or reduce people to less than human terms.

Twitter will also look in profile information for violent threats, any statements meant to incite fear, or anything else that reduces someone to «less than human.»

These negative attitudes are reinforced by actions, attitudes and beliefs, which often characterize disabled persons as being less than human.

Now, I read that as, while the average CO2 output of volcanos over a year is much less than human inputs, individual events can release more than the yearly anthropogenic output.

Nature can not be a net source while the rise is less than the human emission.

I think that this is a feature common to sciences where chaotic, difficult to model variables (in our case nothing less than human behaviour) play a leading role.

Cheers but more specifically... as Ferdinand points out repeatedly, for all the unknowns in the cycle we KNOW the atmospheric concentration of CO2 and we KNOW the human emissions... thus we KNOW that the rise in concentration is less than human emissions and it is in that context that human emissions «look» like much more than a minor player.

Forgive me if «net feedback strength» absorbed in the less than human hair thickness of the warmer ocean surface does not impress.

God damn America, for treating our citizens as less than human.

Haunting and deeply moving, this film, as with all of Huyghe's works on display, touches on nothing less than the human condition.

Her aim is no less than human liberation.»

Because AAFCO regulations do not provide a clear definition of human grade ingredients, because FDA doesn't enforce existing Federal laws that should prevent anything less than human grade ingredients into pet food, both organizations further the great divide between pet owners and trust of pet food.

You allow all of us the redeem the human race for those few who are less than human (e).

A lovely and silver - tongued woman of God, both saint and secret sinner; a beautiful and violent girl, considered less than human; and the hardened, haunted man whom they both love, who loves them both.

When Clemantine was twelve, she and her sister were granted asylum in the United States, where she embarked on another journey — to excavate her past and, after years of being made to feel less than human, claim her individuality.

Only a psychopath would ever think of doing these things, only a psychopath would dream of abusing other people in such a way, only a psychopath would treat people as less than human just for money.

A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin.

«Less than Human» follows an unconventional path, arranged as much by theme and association as by chronology.

It's Friday!!!!! Today's indie author is Allen Long, here with his memoir, Less Than Human.

Conversely, the person who grows up to engage in the forms of violence that endanger others suffered from the alienation, marginalization and exposure to violence and indoctrination that led them to believe their rights to their beliefs are superior to those of others, to see others as less than human, and to see the lives of others as not worthy of value, to not trust others, the rule of law, institutions or governments, which leads to the use of violence as legitimate to advance their means.

Something about that renders us less than human I think because you don't give the full scope of human emotion.

Garcia and Travis are feral by comparison, the latter all deep - seated Alabama angst but never less than human even in his ugliest moments.

As always, less than human characters are relegated to the background and sidelines.

But the film is never defined by these politics; instead, Hornby feels his ways into the story and resists the urge to turn his heroine into a symbol, an icon, or anything less than a human being.

In pagan times, for example, if you became a slave, it was your bad luck - no slaveholder needed to pretend his slaves were less than human in order to justify keeping them.

The film's thematic center is no less than the human experience when faced with imminent, inescapable death, and the fact that, despite cultural boundaries and international conflict, there are universal truths to our existence as human beings.

The screenwriters introduce a fascinating subplot, likening the clones to slaves, each of whom are considered less than human by their «masters.»

James Mason is almost pathetic as the repressed author Humbert Humbert who continues to justify his infatuation with teenage Lolita, yet he's never less than human.

I know folks will want to look at DiCaprio's Calvin Candie as the villain, but in the end he's only as evil and devious as the times would suggest or allow; he was a slave owner who thought his slaves less than human.

The special effects, while providing a universal backdrop, moved me less than the human moments captured so lovingly.

The media / govt concocted dietary orders is what is keeping you less than human and under their thumb.

Don't worry about being less than human, though.

As a scientist who, as a teenager was enchanted with the concept of a molecule that instructed our inheritance, I am awed and astounded to be among the first to look across the billions of bases of DNA landscape of the black - footed ferret, an opportunity seemingly beyond the realm of possibility less than a human lifetime ago.

On the opposite extreme, independently operated coiled polymer muscles having a diameter less than a human hair could bring life - like facial expressions to humanoid companion robots for the elderly and dexterous capabilities for minimally invasive robotic microsurgery.

As a result, an orangutan running through the forest burns anywhere from 500 to 1000 calories less than a human sitting in front of a TV.

All these forces still exert pressure, but currently on orders of magnitude less than human impact.

It isn't only warlords and dictators who treat others as if they are less than human.

«I know what it is to be treated less than a human being and to be exploited and abused,» Gill - Campbell said.

«The most murderous period began in 1933 with government sponsored discrimination against those the government considered less than human.»

The truth is that politicians regularly depict huge swathes of the country as «less than human», to use Twitter's phrase.

Twitter has announced that, in an attempt to «reduce the amount of abusive behaviour and hateful conduct» on their site, it will permanently suspend any profile that «reduces someone to less than human».

Its aim is to make us think of them as less than human beings.

In fact, they start from the point that the people they are talking about are less than human, presumably because that eases their consciences that their polices are effectively death warrants.

Some natural mothers felt less than human during the pregnancy and surrender experience, and may have felt they were regarded as subhuman by society.

Doesn't it piss you off we're in place where the yearly motivational is based on the idea that you're less than human?»

They would be less than human if it does not.

What bothers me is when «Christians» say gay and transgendered people are something less than human and shouldn't enjoys the basic rights the rest of us have, what's it any of your business what people do in their bedrooms?

De-humanization regularly occurs when the person wishes to feel superior to another, by ingraining in their mind that the opposition is less than human, and therefore their opinion does not matter as much.