(a.) Destitute of the kindness and tenderness that belong to a human being; cruel; barbarous; savage; unfeeling; as, an inhuman person or people.
(a.) Characterized by, or attended with, cruelty; as, an inhuman act or punishment.
Example Sentences:
(1) China’s new law also restricts the right of media to report on details of terror attacks, including a provision that media and social media cannot report on details of terror activities that might lead to imitation, nor show scenes that are “cruel and inhuman”.
(2) The measures to be adopted are also stressed in view of a more strict control and protection of human and animal health together with environmental hygiene from Salmonella infection and other Enterobacteria which are increasingly met inhuman and animal pathology.
(3) He was big, maybe 18st [114kg] when I last saw him but he looks thinner in the face in the video.” Muthana added: “What they [Isis] are doing is inhuman, this is not the son I brought up.
(4) Trying to discourage me from my passion is inhuman – it’s not possible!” The crowd cheered and applauded.
(5) On Monday, the UN refugee agency also called on the Libyan government in Tripoli to close its refugee detention centres , describing conditions as inhumane and shocking.
(6) Because of exposure to violence and other acts of inhumanity common today, there is a danger that the dentist could lose sensitivity for members of society and some sense of what it means to be human.
(7) Her friends have been arrested and subjected to what they describe as cruel and inhumane treatment .
(8) I never knew a nation this great could treat its people so inhumanely.
(9) One of its board members is retired Major General Andrew James “Jim” Molan, co-architect of Tony Abbott’s “Operation Sovereign Borders,” the draconian program relying on the remote island detention centres condemned as cruel and inhumane by multiple respected human rights organisations.
(10) Pope decries 'inhuman' conditions for migrants on US-Mexico border Read more Last Christmas, though, the Jesuit reverend who runs Kino discovered that a very powerful man is paying close attention.
(11) Special attention should be given to the interactions between man and machines to exlude difficulties arising from "inhuman engineering".
(12) White House renews call for gun control after Virginia TV shooting Read more There will be another video to shock us and fulfil our collective voyeuristic instincts – maybe even, as happened on Wednesday in Virginia, a first-person documentation of another person’s brutality and inhumanity, filmed from the only end of a gun on which we’re supposed to want to stand.
(13) One of the first demands is that the bombardments by the regime and its [Russian] backers must end.” Merkel condemned the air raids on Syria’s second city as “inhumane and cruel”.
(14) It must be compatible with the human rights convention's protections against inhuman or degrading punishment .
(15) So far, only Corporal Donald Payne has served one year in prison for inhumanely treating civilians following a court martial hearing into the circumstances of Mousa's death.
(16) A corporal admitted inhumane treatment, but no one was convicted of killing Mousa.
(17) Britain was able to satisfy the court that deporting the radical cleric to the country of his birth would not breach his rights under article 3 of the European convention, which prohibits inhuman or degrading treatment.
(18) The audit of 65,000 employees follows accusations by China Labor Watch , an independent labour rights group based in New York, which alleged in August that Samsung suppliers hired children and used "inhumane" working conditions , and in September that there was illegal discrimination in hiring polices at some Samsung suppliers.
(19) The seventh, Corporal Donald Payne, became the first member of the UK military to plead guilty to a war crime when he admitted one charge of inhumane treatment.
(20) The grand chamber's ruling on Wednesday said the extradition of Aswat, who is currently detained in Broadmoor high security psychiatric hospital, would amount to inhumane treatment because his detention conditions were likely to exacerbate his paranoid schizophrenia.
Subhuman
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The presence of a consistent pattern of cardiac innervation in subhuman mammals raised the question as to whether a similar pattern exists in humans.
(2) The results suggest that it may be feasible to estimate, using three small subhuman species, allometrically-derived toxicokinetic parameters of some substances in man with sufficient accuracy to be of practical value.
(3) Research data from subhuman primates in addition to the first human experiments are reviewed.
(4) The performance of The Subhuman Primate Pregnancy Test Kit was evaluated for routine detection of early (days 19-21) pregnancy in the rhesus monkey.
(5) This innate mechanism may have features in common with the vocal signal decoding mechanism of subhuman primates.
(6) In seven newborn subhuman primates, responses to acute hypoxemia were measured prior to and after administration of atropine methyl bromide to prevent vagally mediated narrowing of peripheral airways.
(7) Our rights were extinguished because we were not here according to British law, and when British people looked at us, they saw something subhuman.
(8) These studies provide methods for the study of seminiferous tubule androgen receptors in subhuman primates and indicate that, due to its greater stability and lack of binding to glucocorticoid receptor, mibolerone is a useful new ligand in the study of androgen receptors in testis and its constituent cells.
(9) A subhuman primate model of ASI was developed in order to study a novel muscle tuck procedure designed to preserve anterior ciliary artery circulation.
(10) Evidence that the parkinsonian inducing agent MPTP is biotransformed to a pyridinium species that selectively destroys nigrostriatal neurons in humans and subhuman primates has prompted studies to evaluate the metabolic fate of the structurally related neuroleptic agent haloperidol.
(11) In subhuman primate studies, there is no increased back diffusion acid during hypotension or during the reinfusion periods.
(12) Most of our knowledge stems from observations of gonadal development in anencephalics or subhuman primates after pituitary ablation.
(13) Data presented in this report suggest that subclinical filovirus infections may also occur in humans and in subhuman primates.
(14) The concentrations of plasma glucose, free fatty acids, insulin, growth hormone, and placental prolactin in subhuman primate fetal and maternal plasma were examined following intravascular administration of insulin and glucagon to the fetus and mother.
(15) In vivo experiments have demonstrated that E-series PGs relax while F-series PGs stimulate muscular activity of the oviduct in humans, subhuman primates and rabbits.
(16) We conclude that in a subhuman animal model gossypol induced effects on sperm motility and morphology are reversible.
(17) Recombinant human granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (rHuGM-CSF) has been reported to increase the leukocyte count in subhuman primates subjected to total-body irradiation and in patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
(18) Previous work on subhuman species showed that habituation and sensitization curves had certain characteristic similarities across species.
(19) The experimental form of Rocky Mountain spotted fever in the macaque provides a subhuman primate model for studying the pathophysiology of this disease.
(20) In a subhuman primate animal model (young rhesus monkey) which was akin to the human situation both for protein energy malnutrition and for drug pharmacokinetics it was observed that hepatic aminopyrine demethylase and chloramphenicol glucuronyl transferase activity was diminished.