(n.) Men, as distinguished from women; the male portion of human race.
(n.) Human feelings; humanity.
(a.) Manlike; not womanly; masculine; bold; cruel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Being able to look ahead, being able to make a correct prediction of events and developments has been of great interest to mankind since biblical times and with good reason.
(2) He offerered some hope – "just as mankind had the power to push the world to the brink so, too, do we have the power to bring it back into balance" but not enough for one woman, who concluded: "He sure needs a hug."
(3) We should immediately consider the organ transplantation as one of the medical treatments for the above-mentioned patients out of love for mankind.
(4) The common bovine papilloma virus type 1 has been widely used to stimulate basic research on papilloma viruses involved in some cancers of mankind.
(5) These short films aren't always musical; Laser Cats is a deliberately retro-amateurish sci-fi series about mutant cats who shoot lasers from their eyes, while a student film about giraffes claims that they are from outer space and will destroy mankind.
(6) Today the overestimation of human understanding is reflected in a dogmatic adherence to specific professional or idealogically biased doctrines and in the dubious ideal of a purely empirical science with its limited applicability to mankind.
(7) The egg is one of the most ancient symbols in mankind.
(8) This paper presents in an intellectually very shortened form the most important developmental stages of diet since the beginning of mankind.
(9) Scott's film, which starred Noomi Rapace, Charlize Theron, Michael Fassbender and Idris Elba, centred on the human crew of a spaceship sent to investigate a distant planet where the answers to mankind's origins may lie hidden.
(10) Tell me what will happen when the majority of mankind has become technologically superfluous."
(11) We are learning how to: 1) vary wavelength, pulse duration, and energy to influence the nature of microscopic injury and host response in order to achieve a net therapeutic benefit; 2) utilize exogenous chromophores to increase the selection of targets for laser radiation; and 3) capture optical technology developed for industrial and military use, in order to benefit mankind with new medical and surgical techniques.
(12) Merkel delivered her own kind of blow, on the day of his election, stating that cooperation with the US could only exist on the basis of values, which meant respect for the inalienable dignity of mankind, whatever one’s origins or beliefs.
(13) A sense of the end-times is also apparent in Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Contagion , where super-intelligent apes and killer microbes respectively are poised to wipe out mankind.
(14) There are mixed views not only about how sustained that warming is – seemingly it has not warmed for the last 15 years, and also the relative contributions of mankind and natural causes.” Abbott seems to have learnt from Howard’s experience of digging in, only to be forced into a policy reversal when he found himself on the wrong side of public opinion.
(15) In a joint op-ed in the National Review , Pruitt wrote that the debate on climate change is “far from settled”, adding: “Scientists continue to disagree about the degree and extent of global warming and its connection to the actions of mankind.” In fact, the overwhelming majority of scientists agree climate change is happening and caused by humans.
(16) The knowledge of the presence of the paranasal sinuses dates back to early mankind as well as attempts to treat their diseases.
(17) Classical approaches to the development of vaccines have provided mankind with a number of safe and effective vaccines (think of the world-wide eradication of smallpox).
(18) The Holy Koran teaches that whoever kills an innocent, it is as if he has killed all mankind; and whoever saves a person, it is as if he has saved all mankind.
(19) Morrison has also just edited and published Burn This Book, a collection of essays on censorship and the power of words, in which she writes that "a writer's life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity".
(20) If it is just another movie in which mankind fails in the most basic tests of humanity when confronted by something alien to himself, I think we’ve all seen that one before.
Philanthropy
Definition:
(n.) Love to mankind; benevolence toward the whole human family; universal good will; desire and readiness to do good to all men; -- opposed to misanthropy.
Example Sentences:
(1) One, known as the Institute for Philanthropy , runs classes for wealthy individuals, which it describes as an 'MBA' in philanthropy.
(2) I had written about philanthropy, but had never worked in a foundation before.
(3) About £60m in public funds, for example, is to be spent on an ornamental footbridge across the Thames, the Garden Bridge , which was originally to have been built from the philanthropy of private enterprise until the estimates of its cost rose by £115m to £175m, at which point the London mayor Boris Johnson pledged £30m from Transport for London, with another £30m promised from George Osborne at the Treasury.
(4) This article offers an historical analysis of the changing role of philanthropy and nonprofit hospitals in the structure and operation of the U.S. health care system throughout the 20th century and the implications for current policymaking.
(5) There's another cavil about the Moritz gift, and that is the anxiety that the dawning of a new age of philanthropy heralds a further withdrawal of the state from the funding of English universities.
(6) All four philanthropies are moving away from funding projects involving tertiary care.
(7) It has sneered at the 1906 reforms of Lloyd George , who recognised that 19th-century philanthropy (which was always pretty judgmental and selective) was no longer adequate for a modern industrial country.
(8) Jeremy Hunt's speech at the RSA unfortunately contained a misleading figure for our costs ( Tories want US-style philanthropy for arts , 15 January).
(9) Pertinent themes in the history of responses to epidemic disease in the United States in the past two hundred years include an initial underestimation of the severity of the epidemic; the prevalence of fear and anxiety; flight, denial, and scape-goating as a result of fear; efforts to quarantine and isolate carriers and the sick; the assertion of rational policies by coalitions of business, government, and medical leaders; the recruitment of a special cadre of physicians to treat the sick; the similarity of responses to both epidemic and endemic infectious diseases; and the high cost of epidemics, which is shared by government, philanthropy, and private individuals.
(10) Entrepreneurs bring business methods and disciplines to philanthropy – they don't like wasting money and like to be focussed and planned and their charitable partners to be vetted.
(11) I’d also like to see a new government look at ways of making philanthropy more attractive – that’s really important to North American universities, for instance.
(12) Parker, who holidayed with Cameron in South Africa in 2008, is given a knighthood for services to business, charitable giving and philanthropy.
(13) His pervasive influence within the field of philanthropy stems more than anything from his treatise on 'wealth' , known as 'The Gospel of Wealth' , where he concludes: "the problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and the poor in harmonious relationship."
(14) Iqbal Wahhab recently argued that philanthropy is dead and the charity sector needs to adopt commercial principles .
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest But neither this, nor Danny Boyle’s Michael Fassbender-starring Steve Jobs biopic due next month, is likely to win the approval of Jobs’ family or Apple’s executives, since both films dwell on the contradictions in Jobs’ character – the adopted child who initially denied paternity of his own daughter; the creator of the world’s most valuable company who considered philanthropy a waste of time; the Zen seeker who short-changed colleagues, and oversaw an executive culture of backdated stock options and tax avoidance schemes.
(16) From Russia to Colombia, Haiti to India and the Congo, the couple has repeatedly blurred the lines between private endeavor, public service, philanthropy and friendship – exposing themselves to blatant conflicts of interest, the book alleges.
(17) Cheryl Chapman is the director of City Philanthropy , which will be hosting two events on Giving Tuesday.
(18) From a Marxian perspective, the proliferation of CCUs and similar innovations is a complex historical process that includes initiatives by industrial corporations, cooperation by clinical investigators at academic medical centers, support by private philanthropies linked to corporate interests, intervention by state agencies, and changes in the health care labor force.
(19) While it's good to hear that lottery funding for the arts will eventually increase to 20%, the faith in (and encouragement to rely on) income from philanthropy is potentially very worrying, especially given the gradual disintegration of individual giving in the US.
(20) David Verey, a banker who ran Lazard Brothers when it donated tens of thousands of pounds to the Conservatives in the 1990s, has also been knighted, for his contribution to arts philanthropy.