humaneness

Example Sentences

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The Alabama attorney general’s office and Smith’s lawyer in oral arguments before the 11th Circuit presented diverging accounts of the humaneness and risks of execution by nitrogen hypoxia.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 24, 2024

“And then it’s not like you shut the factory down for two days. You start making some some real difficult decisions related to animals from a humaneness standpoint.”

From Washington Times • Dec. 21, 2023

Franklin extolled the hospital as a crowning achievement of humaneness and government, declaring "the good particular men may do separately in relieving the sick is small compared with what they may do collectively."

From Salon • Jul. 3, 2020

But this alleged humaneness while pursuing his quarry makes him appear calculating, rather like Lewis Carroll’s virtue-signalling walrus who feigns sympathy with the oysters he shoves in his mouth.

From Washington Post • Dec. 14, 2018

In its place he estab-lished an administration distinguished by its humaneness and intelligence.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover