Sentences with phrase «less than human beings»

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

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

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.

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The human body was simply not capable of running one mile in less than four minutes.

Additionally, self - driving car technology will be so good that these robotic automobiles will posses driving skills that «will be indistinguishable from humans except that robot drivers will be safer and more predictable than a human driver with less than one year's driving experience.»

The Center for Human Sleep Science found that getting less than seven hours of sleep a nigh can be linked to medical ailments like cancer, obesity and poor mental health.

For midsize businesses (those with more than 50 employees and less than 1,000) getting their arms around their total cost of ownership (TCO) in human resources — what they are actually spending on employees and the cost of managing them — can be easily overlooked.

Having actual humans handle human resources is more expensive and less efficient than handing it over to machines.

Anyone unmoved by such a tragedy is less than human.

Perhaps no tool is more effective at putting a human face on a firm than social media — and no tool is less expensive, either.

Now, let me ask you: What gives you the right to make fun of a human who is less fortunate, physically, than you are?»»

An interactive voice response (IVR) «chatbot» in today's call centers can do very little human interaction, and customers are more like to hang up frustrated even after in efficient, inhuman interaction than they would be after a less successful, empathetic interaction.

Last year, 73 percent of some 600 U.S. employees surveyed were satisfied with their co-worker relationships (6 percent less than in 2012), according to the Society for Human Resource Management's «Employee Job Satisfaction and Engagement» report.

Watching the New England Patriots — trailing 21 - zip in the second quarter, down 25 points in the third, 19 points in the hole with less than 600 seconds to go in regulation — rally to win the Super Bowl in overtime, I couldn't help but wonder if there was some mysterious science behind «the miraculous comeback»: something measurable, or at least point - to - able, that captures the transformation of human spirit that drives an individual — or, more inexplicably, a team of separate beings — to see «victory» when «loss» is flashing all around them.

It usually requires an explanation on the order of infinite retention («yes, our sales and marketing costs are really high and our annual profit margins per user are thin, but we're going to keep the customer forever»), a massive reduction in costs («we're going to replace all our human labor with robots»), a claim that eventually the company can stop buying users («we acquire users for more than they're worth for now just to get the flywheel spinning»), or something even less plausible.

The «termination without cause» took less than a minute, as Beutner was then escorted back to his office by T - Pub SVP for Human Resources Cindy Ballard — the same drill employed as protocol as so many newspaper jobs have been cut over the last decade.

They would, of course, be much less expensive to operate than trucks driven by humans.

Now we just have to hope that robots deem it nice to keep those humans around with their weak biological bodies and their brains that are about a trillion trillion times less powerful than theirs.

200 years ago there were less than one billion humans living on earth.

While roles like CEO, head of operations, human resources, etc. are certainly filled with more than their fair share of stress, there is probably no position that has more responsibility for success, often with less input and control, than the sales manager.

& It is unnecessarily costly to operate a business, financial institution, or financial intermediary where human workers are doing jobs that computers are capable of handling faster, more efficiently, and with less error than human workers.

Some patients may even prefer to speak to bots like Woebot — «your charming robot friend who is always ready to listen» — because it's less complicated than speaking to another human being.

Here's another fun fact: according to Wikipedia (who's never wrong), the average human digestive system produces approximately 3 grams of ethanol per day (a little less than a third of a beer)... completely irrelevant to an article on intermittent fasting and alcohol, but interesting nonetheless.

You just have to take the time to think about it long enough to see that these ancient written texts were written by humans with less knowledge about science than we have now.

You don't seem to realize that Ham's Creationism involves a Universe that is less than 10,000 years ago and a human race that is entirely descended from 3 breeding pairs of humans 4,000 years ago wherein all the males were 1st order relatives.

It has been estimated that in less than the past 100 years, governments under the banner of communism have caused the death of somewhere between 40,472,000 to 259,432,000 human lives.

Please, any Christian, honestly answer the following: The completely absurd theory that all 7,000,000,000 human beings are simultaneously being supervised 24 hours a day, every day of their lives by an immortal, invisible being for the purposes of reward or punishment in the «afterlife» comes from the field of: (a) Astronomy; (b) Medicine; (c) Economics; or (d) Christianity You are about 70 % likely to believe the entire Universe began less than 10,000 years ago with only one man, one woman and a talking snake if you are a: (a) historian; (b) geologist; (c) NASA astronomer; or (d) Christian I have convinced myself that gay $ ex is a choice and not genetic, but then have no explanation as to why only gay people have ho.mo $ exual urges.

The belief in a personal god is no more and no less than human egoism, fuelled by a fear od death!

If you don't feel the same, you are less than human.

For me historical biblical criticism is fine as long as the agenda isn't «Let's prove it's all made up human nonsense by primitives who are far less sophisticated than Enlightenment mankind».

On the reading I propose, the Reformation schism was brought about instead by contingent human choices in a confused historical context defined less by clear and principled theological argument (though that of course was present) than by a peculiar and distinctively sixteenth - century combination of overheated and ever - escalating polemics, cold - blooded Realpolitik, and fervid apocalyptic dreaming.

Indeed they do tend to be other worldy but at the same time — wise to the ways of the world and are no less human than what God intended.

It seems to me they have much bigger fish to fry like: The Taliban treating women as less than human, stoning people to death, 60 year old men marrying teenage girls, cutting off an 18 year old girl's nose because she left her abusive husband (see TIME magazine a month ago), destroying over 125 schools because girls attend, suicidal Islamic fanatical cowards on every continent killing thousands of INNOCENT people, and these clowns are worried about their precious Koran being burned by a nutjob.

evolveddna — yes I extend human dignity to all — and don't feel any human being is less precious than any other in the sight of God

probably the intricacies of the human body, the universe, love, intellect, emotion... should be enough to convince anyone... This is why atheists comprise less than 3 % of the worlds population

7) This god is the Judeo - Christian god 8) It made the entire Universe less than 10,000 years ago, complete with Adam and Eve and later there was a Worldwide flood and Noah and his ark is actual factual history 9) about 2,000 years ago, it impregnated a Greco - Roman Jewish virgin with itself gave birth to a human being and then had it sacrificed to itself to forgive the original sin of Adam and Eve.

It does not describe said individuals and their posterity, ancient or modern, as of less worth, or value as human beings than any other group.

Let's say you were born as a child in Nazi Germany and you were brought up to believe that the Jewish people are less than human and to exterminate them is morally good.

All human beings face contradictions and sharp differences within their souls, but few have the conflicts in their souls put on display as a national tragedy no less than a personal contradiction.

in some ways memory is a better key to the nature of experience than perception, not only because, by the time we have used a datum of perception, it will already have been taken over by memory, but for the additional reasons: (a,) in memory there is less mystery concerning what we are trying to know than there is in perception [i.e., «our own past human experiences»]; also (all) the temporal structure of memory is more obvious.

Such a «godless natural law» entails nothing less than «a direct attack on humanity itself,» because it «would revere the laws of human nature only insofar as we continued to be human.

The current rate of burning fossil fuels adds about 2 ppm per year to the atmosphere, so that getting from the current level to 1000 ppm would take about 300 years — and 1000 ppm is still less than what most plants would prefer, and much less than either the nasa or the Navy limit for human beings.

He was less than human, treated worse than a dog.

If elected, I would deny rights to: a) gays b) atheists c) immigrants d) anyone with a median infcome less than $ 100,000 e) human rights are a privilege, not a right

In all of human history there have been less than 200 years without war.

Now he reviews a new book on ethics and writes,» [The author] agrees with what now seems to be a near - consensus among philosophers that «speciesism» - the view that we are entitled to take theinterests of animals less seriously than we take human interests, simply because humans are members of our species - is not a morally defensible position.»

«The canonization of scripture,» he writes, «both Jewish and Christian, was no doubt complicated by all kinds of less - than - perfect human motivations, as indeed in the writing of scripture in the first place.

He is also fully human like us in every way, except for sin (which would make him less than human).

I learned from whites, at a very early age, that blacks were violent, stupid, unacceptable human beings who were less important than themselves and most of all, «not safe.»

The natural world is nothing less than a mediation between minds: the unlimited mind of the Creator and our limited human minds.