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Example sentences for "human affairs"

  • Sir, I know the uncertainty of human affairs, but I see, I see clearly, through this day's business.

  • It cannot be denied, but by those who would dispute against the sun, that with America, and in America, a new era commences in human affairs.

  • They have been sufficiently numerous to indicate an observant though invisible eye fixed upon human affairs; but not so frequent as to supersede the Christian's anticipations of a day of final and impartial judgment.

  • Such is the vicissitude of human affairs, that within a few years many strange mutations occur, even in places of no great extent.

  • In such a state of unbounded power, for undefined and indefinable purposes, the evil of a moral and almost physical inaptitude of the man to the function, must be the greatest we can conceive to happen in the management of human affairs.

  • I am a man, I felt for the melancholy reverse of human affairs in the fall of the first power in the world.

  • If the reader, after having investigated these details of human affairs, will seek to survey the wide prospect as a whole, he will be struck by the result.

  • There are enterprises, military as well as civil, which sometimes check the current of events, give a new turn to human affairs, and transmit their consequences through ages.

  • Let us endeavor to comprehend in all its magnitude, and to feel in all its importance, the part assigned to us in the great drama of human affairs.

  • We have seen him also in his decline, when the wings of his imagination have begun to droop, but his experience of life remains, and he turns away from the contemplation of the eternal to take a last sad look at human affairs.

  • I will prove to you, if you will allow me, that the ruin of those states was not caused by cowardice or ignorance in war, but by ignorance of human affairs.

  • Plato's increasing appreciation of the difficulties of human affairs, and of the element of chance which so largely influences them, is an indication not of a narrower, but of a maturer mind, which had become more conversant with realities.

  • The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

  • And no doubt my innate constructiveness with its practical corollary of an analytical treatment of the material supplied, was bound to push me on beyond this melodramatic interpretation of human affairs.

  • He wants no longer to "fix up," as people say, human affairs, but to devote his forces to the development of that needed intellectual life without which all his shallow attempts at fixing up are futile.

  • And the Baileys gathered and reinvested usuriously not money, but knowledge of the utmost value in human affairs.

  • Finance again was a sealed book to us; we did not so much connect it with the broad aspects of human affairs as regard it as a sort of intrusive nuisance to be earnestly ignored by all right-minded men.

  • Uninvolved in the debilitating routine of human affairs, they frequently displayed an energy which, from every impartial observer, would have extorted veneration.

  • This policy of supplying, by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole system of human affairs, private as well as public.

  • All violent policy, as it is contrary to the natural and experienced course of human affairs, defeats itself.

  • Constitutions of civil government are not to be framed upon a calculation of existing exigencies, but upon a combination of these with the probable exigencies of ages, according to the natural and tried course of human affairs.

  • We have no right, then, on the ground of the immutableness of human affairs, to quench, as far as we have power, the hope of social progress.

  • Surely, if ever there were an occasion when the heightened imagination of the historian might see Destiny visibly intervening in human affairs, here was a knot worthy of her shears.

  • The standard of truth seeking this process demands is far beyond the patterns of negotiation and compromise that tend to characterize the present-day discussion of human affairs.

  • Viewed in such a light, consultation is the operating expression of justice in human affairs.

  • It will bring about far-reaching changes in the governance of human affairs and in the institutions created to carry it out.

  • Its beneficiaries must be all of the planet’s inhabitants, without distinction, without the imposition of conditions unrelated to the fundamental goals of such a reorganization of human affairs.

  • In such a state of unbounded power, for undefined and undefinable purposes, the evil of a moral and almost physical inaptitude of the man to the function must be the greatest we can conceive to happen in the management of human affairs.

  • Here it is that the line is drawn between science, and the wisdom which has for its object the administration of human affairs.

  • Therefore, in forming our judgment of human affairs, we must apply a "Lesbian rule," instead of one that is inflexible.

  • The provision occurs "in a Constitution intended to endure for ages to come and consequently to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    foot deep; human action; human actions; human affection; human behavior; human beings; human conduct; human creature; human effort; human faculty; human hair; human history; human justice; human language; human laws; human life; human natur; human origin; human relations; human responsibility; human shape; human society; human suffering; human wisdom; little iron; quite soft