How To Use Humane In A Sentence

Where are their fiercest critics when humane help is wanted? The Sun
Hog waste is a major pollution source, communities surrounding the factories are strangled by a foetid stench and animal rights groups have long complained about the inhumane way pigs are raised and slaughtered.
In the twelfth century the canon lawyers devised an elaborate, and comparatively humane, legal framework for poor relief.
His domestic policy is unjust, inhumane, fiscally irresponsible, and amazingly uninformed.
I NOTICE that apart from the widespread complaint that the German pilotless planes seem so unnatural (a bomb dropped by a live airman is quite natural, apparently), some journalists are denouncing them as barbarous, inhumane, and an indiscriminate attack on civilians. As I Please

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The trade in exotic birds is barbarous and inhumane.
Long before we reach this stage, the quality of life for us would be unacceptable, cruel and inhumane. Times, Sunday Times
January, February, and March bring a great cold, and inhumane conditions of food and weather for the girls - long marches to church in the blistering cold wind, swollen and flayed fingers and feet, and chilblains on the hands.
It seems we would rather harbour war criminals than shelter innocent human beings from inhumane regimes.
Athenians so far forgot their Philosophy, and the nature of humane production, that they descended unto belief, that the original of their Nation was from the Earth, and had no other beginning then the seminality and womb of their great Mother. El Hombre Que Comía Diccionarios
We have banned the use of veal crates, and taken action to ensure humane slaughter.
WHY are we allowing animals to be killed in this inhumane way? The Sun
I have thought it, for example, not humane to variegate the text of an Anthology with despairing obeli: and occasionally I have covered up an indubitable lacuna by artifices which I trust may pass undetected by the general reader and unreproved by the charitable critic. Preface
Enforcing the isolation of this callow and callous ruler is the least that a humane and pacific foreign policy must aim for.
Therefore it was made spacious, humane, livable, for those who must live aboard it. THE DISPOSSESSED
This is the only humane approach to those fleeing violence, poverty and oppression.
Vinnie hunts rabbits for the pot with his three lurchers and maintains that his way of killing them is as humane as any alternative.
The most humane treatment is to expose the addict fully to the personal and family pain he is causing. Christianity Today
It's also a boost to human rights, as current prison conditions there are inhumane. The Sun
We must remember this fact because it refutes the argument that one imposes a blockade, embargo, or sanction as a bloodless and humane way of coercing the leaders of a target country.
Instead, the man seeking to rescue the children and his fellow citizens from inhumane conditions has been called a disbeliever on national TV. The Jawa Report
In the United States, critically injured racehorses are humanely euthanized by lethal injection.
Doing the humane thing—i.e., something good for the people of Haiti or Bosnia or Kosovo—could also be the smart and, to use the word commandeered by critics of such policies, the realistic thing, since it was good for the United States to avert instability in the Caribbean and the Balkans. The Great Experiment
It was a generous and humane impulse that has brought huge benefits to this country.
The Office of Inspector General -- which in May issued a damning report about the appalling lack of enforcement of inhumane large-scale commercial dog breeding operations -- found that the present government program for inspecting horses for soring "is not adequate to ensure that these animals are not being abused. Wayne Pacelle: Federal Audit Finds Rampant Abuses of Show Horses; Agency Reform Promised
The price of eggs has risen because of more humane - and expensive - battery farming. Times, Sunday Times
Because of the inhumane nature of slavery, slave revolts became commonplace in Jamaica.
You should communicate bad news clearly, fairly, and humanely.
The play during the latter interludes - humane warmth not being Flannery's forte - seems somewhat enfeebled.
We should aspire, along with being world champions in the sporting arena, to being the most humane and compassionate people on this planet.
Tired of people not taking responsibility for their inhumaneness to their fellow man. The Economist: Daily news and views
It is simply inhumane to chain a bird to a perch or stand.
The western community rose up to protest the cruel and inhumane punishment.
Therefore, they have rights of dignity, humane treatment, access to legal advice, and even correspondence.
To avoid the stress of transportation, the turkeys will be humanely slaughtered on the farm.
But non-government organizations decried the forcible evictions as inhumane, urging the government to build replacements for their demolished houses.
IT _may be expected by some faithless Persons, that I should produce an_ HERMAPHRODITE _to publick View, as an incontestible Justification of there being Humane Creatures of this kind; but as I have no Authority to take up the Petticoats of any Female without her Consent, I hope to be excus'd from making such demonstrable Proofs; and if I had such a Power, the Sight might endanger the Welfare of some pregnant Female, whose Tractus de Hermaphrodites Or, A Treatise of Hermaphrodites
Off screen he campaigned for the humane treatment of dogs. Times, Sunday Times
State statutes also ensure the humane euthanasia of furbearers, since they are not food animals.
In future, the movement will be more humane, more charitable with a greater respect for dissenting opinion, there will be less purges and more accommodation.
The only place to remove them to humanely is the countryside. Archive 2007-10-28
It is not acceptable to announce repeatedly to the world that we don't torture, that we abide by all our treaty obligations, and that we treat detainees "humanely" -- only to engage in secret waterboarding and hypothermia, based on equally secret legal determinations that construe the words "torture" and "humane" in an Orwellian fashion, that diminish treaty obligations down to nothing, and that assert a right of the President to ignore all statutory limits. Balkinization
It is inhumane in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity. Dave Barry
I murrieta homes for sale nontelescopic stateless teleprompter in the yell of not uncommunicative any way nonheritable what quantifier i was redetermination out of and sexually if i was nullifier the deterministic brisling and the dactylopteridae inhumane a highfaluting anoectochilus. Rational Review
Humane but unsentimental, unabashedly artsy but instantly approachable, this is a movie for just about everybody.
Business ethics argues that inhumane working conditions seriously violate the dignity of human beings.
Slaves held in bondage are forced into labor and too often treated inhumanely.
In Norway, it is illegal to shoot seal whelps, instead, they must be humanely, and with one blow, "clubbed" to death. Donald where's yer sporran?
Their humane treatment of debtors was also notable. Property and Prophets: The Evolution of Economic Institutions and Ideologies
Neurosurgeons everywhere started to abandon lobotomy in favour of more humane methods of treatment.
Are not consumers still being denied freedom of choice, resulting in delays in the introduction of more humane systems of husbandry?
HUMANE, DELLE BABUINE, le pelle delle quali poteva far egli credere ad ogniuno che fussero state di femine. Notes and Queries, Number 26, April 27, 1850
Today, it is another kind of crusade, to protect the sacred places of the earth wherein dwell freedom and justice, and good faith and mercy, and humane and Christian civilization. The Present Challenge to Canada
Teamed with modern telescopic sights, rangefinders, binoculars, and spotting scopes, these modern tools are the most humane hunting implements we, as hunters, have ever had.
Rashid, whose own Islam is a civil and humane affair, is revolted by these tribal sectaries.
It is inhumane, cruel and must be stopped. The Sun
Humane destruction is not easy to face, but fear of the unknown is often far worse than facing the truth.
In the mid-nineteenth century, Dorothea Dix began to campaign for humane treatment of the mentally ill.
I pray GOD most sincerely to bless you with the highest transports ” the infelt satisfaction of humane and benevolent exertions! ” Life of Johnson
In a moment all the wrongs he had suffered at their hands were forgotten; he accepted the position of dictator or _suffete_, he caused more humane laws to be passed, and not only saved the people from ruin and enabled the merchants again to sell their goods, but paid the large sum demanded as a war indemnity by Rome within the year. The Red Book of Heroes
Most of this is produced in intensive farming systems which are extremely cruel and inhumane.
But killing their fellow God-created human beings in order to attain their personal salvation is a blatantly selfish and the most condemnable inhumane act, morally and theologically.
But when they are in our custody, when they are defenseless, it is a mark of Western civilization that we treat them humanely.
This story is about this woman who worked for the humane society and euthanized a stray cat.
The organizers must do everything they can to prevent barbaric, inhumane acts of violence from occurring there.
Convocation preferred the blight of the coward Science to the cultivation of all that was beautiful, distinguished, humane, and brave; and they reaped as they had sown, they kept the dog smotherer and lost the radiant spirit and uplifting eloquence of the inspired seer. Great Testimony against scientific cruelty
How would you like to be treated "humanely" while locked up for years w/o charges? Heather Robinson: NYC Trial Of High-level Terror Masterminds Will Violate Civil Liberties -- Of Americans
This book is an engaging, humane and personal account of a fascinating, courageous, anonymous and uncelebrated group of Soviet patriots who just happened to be women.
All his life Nelson was profoundly aware of the drudgery of toil, whether on the furrow or the lower deck, and humanely responsive to the concerns of the least privileged.
If we proposed to kill a mass murderer, an enemy combatant/terrorist, or even a dumb animal by depriving them of food and water, we would be condemned as inhumane.
Criticising the conclusion of a passage in Milton's treatise, the language of the first portion of which is pronounced "too sublime and angelical for mortal creatures to comprehend it," the Answerer declares, "This frothy discourse, were it not sugared over with a little neat language, would appear so immeritous, so contrary to all humane learning, yea truth and common experience itself, that all that read it must needs count it worthy to be burnt by the hangman. The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649
My mother covered him with blankets, and a neighbor phoned the local chapter of the Humane Society for help.
The women stood on the traffic island holding banners and posters against communalism and violence while the children recited poems highlighting the need for love and humaneness.
For me the ban, when implemented, will represent a step towards a more humane treatment of wild animals.
Thier numbers need to be humanely controlled or else they would overrun the place.
Captured combatants must be treated humanely.
While People Cut the Heads Off Children by Abortion in All 50 States, Some States Seek Ban On Gas Euthanasia of Shelter Animals Six states are considering proposals to ban carbon monoxide gas chamber use in animal shelters as a means of euthanasia, in response to animal rights supporters who say the process is inhumane. ProLifeBlogs
In fact, laws of kashrut are traditionally cited as yielding the most humane methods of slaughter.
To understand what's going on here, you really do need to watch this deeply humane film. Times, Sunday Times
Conventional histories of penology tend to represent these developments in penal thought and practice as rational, progressive, scientific and humane.
In celebrating foreign food, she has proved herself more humane and internationalist than locavore leftists.
These regulations ensure the humane treatment of all refugees.
In a recent interview, Omar Regan, a son of Mr. Abdullah, became emotional as he decried how his father has been inhumanely "mauled" by the dog. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
I don't have a moral dilemma when it comes to slaughtering animals for food, just so long as it is done humanely.
The most humane treatment is to expose the addict fully to the personal and family pain he is causing. Christianity Today
Finished coracles are also delivered complete with a handcrafted priest or knocker used to humanely kill caught fish as a reminder that you are purchasing a historical fishing craft rather than a recreational toy.
At least five dogs had died at the Humane Society because of heat conditions there and negligent spaying and neutering.
The league says this failure means up to 3,000 teenagers are locked up in inhumane, appalling conditions.
The disparity in treatment is disgusting and inhumane in my opinion and more has to be done to address working conditions of foreign laborers in the Middle East. Global Voices in English » Bahrain: Our Need For Indians Is Like Our Need For Air
Those scientists who did not come from the socially privileged classes had even more to gain by establishing reputations as men of humane learning.
After buying your fat, preferably from a farmer or butcher that treats its hogs humanely, chop it up into little pieces. Archive 2008-05-01
The common sense, humane solution to the conflict would be to offer resettlement to Palestinians in neighboring Arab countries with generous compensation. Matthew Yglesias » Gaza and Just War
There can be such inhumane coldness from the corporate powers … There are stories and I have personally witnessed where an employee is written up if missing work for an emergency such as a child being rushed to the hospital. Think Progress » Coal disaster company Massey Energy denied time off for miners to attend their friends’ funerals.
Staff explained the manner in which they tried to carry out their duties in a humane way. The Prisons We Deserve
They are then put down using lethal injection, a method of dispatch confirmed as both legally acceptable and humane by the animal protection authorities.
I have here instanced in the corpuscularian Hypothesis, as that which is thought to go farthest in an intelligible Explication of the Qualities of Bodies; and I fear the Weakness of humane Understanding is scarce able to substitute another, which will afford us a fuller and clearer discovery of the necessary Connexion, and Locke's Philosophy of Science
Not just right-wing reactionaries, either, but people of enlightened education and humane outlook.
-- Ipley crooned a ready accompaniment: the sleepers had been awakened: the women and the men were alive, half-dancing, half-chorusing here a baby was tossed, and there an old fellow's elbow worked mutely, expressive of the rollicking gaiety within him: the whole length of the booth was in a pleasing simmer, ready to overboil with shouts humane and cheerful, while Sandra Belloni — Volume 2
United States in Congress assembled_: That the thanks of Congress are due, and are hereby tendered to Captain David Ritchie, commanding the revenue steamer Mocassin, and to the officers and men under his command, for their heroic and humane action in saving the lives of forty-two persons from the wreck of the steamer "Metis" on the waters of Long Island Sound, on the morning of the thirty-first of August, eighteen hundred and seventy-two. The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876
I don't support the death penalty, but if people are to be executed, it should be done humanely.
Was it not possible to construct a more humane society than this? The Times Literary Supplement
Accordingly, Mr. Clinton said, the policy should be re-examined or at least carried out in a more humane way, to prevent the harassment of homosexuals in the armed forces.
There are strict standards for humane killing, animal care, housing and health. Times, Sunday Times
Some films answer this question by poeticizing realism (Throne of Blood, Kwaidan), through irony and humaneness (Star Wars, Chinese Ghost Story), or by just giving up believability (Charlie's Angels, Wong Jing's wackier films).
Then we "euthanize" them, to show how humane we are. Peter Clothier: A Requiem for Eight Belles
Off screen he campaigned for the humane treatment of dogs. Times, Sunday Times
Now is the time to make this connection, because current national discussions about food rely on catchphrases that will look familiar to hunters: locally harvested, free-range, organic, humanely slaughtered. The Manifesto: Eat What You Kill
Eggs laid in the dovecote will be removed regularly in an effort to humanely reduce the size of the flock.
He just seems like a very smart, very humane voice in literature and I don't know why he isn't more widely disseminated.
The horses were representative of cases presented to humane officers for rehabilitation.
Can we remain human when we relegate the majority of our fellow citizens to inhumane conditions?
The hippo was humanely euthanized due to her failing health.
Oxfam calls farmworker conditions today the equivalent of a "19th century plantation-style" model relying on field hands, rudimentary equipment, long hours, little pay, no benefits, under a basically "inhumane, anachronistic (system crying) out for reform. Modern Slavery in America
That is why Oxfam is campaigning to scrap the voucher system and replace it with more humane funding.
Towards the end of March, a collector will arrive to humanely dispose of the unneeded creature.
Under the plan, the cats are humanely trapped, evaluated, vaccinated, and neutered by veterinarians.
Harmless and humane, the cats simply don't like the sound, which is undetectable to the human ear.
The lieutenant governor of the colony was an ambivalent, placative man named George Arthur, who might well have preferred that travesty of humaneness. The Song of The Dodo
In the mid-nineteenth century, Dorothea Dix began to campaign for humane treatment of the mentally ill.
Neuroanatomy suggest the cetacean brain is such that to imprision these animals in a sterile environment as we do may be beyond inhumane. Think Progress » American Family Association Pins SeaWorld Death On Lack Of Christianity: ‘Bible Ignored, Trainer Died’
It is interesting to note here that the hunt's most humane role - the tracking with hounds and quick dispatch of wounded deer - is a useful corollary to their role as cullers of excess deer by shooting.
The wild people are more humane; they pay two ewes for a good colley, and demand a two-year-old sheep as First footsteps in East Africa
(Incidentally, there is substantial attention given in adjoining passages for the hospitable and humane treatment even of foreigners.) Think Progress » “Dogs aren’t born mooing, and people aren’t born gay.”
That new form of legislation, most clearly found in the application of lenient punishments minutely calibrated to the severity of offenses, is designed to do two things, which find their way into Bentham's numerous defenses of new legislation to replace transportation and capital punishment with humane incarceration — legislation aimed at increasing the Romantic Fear
I can only hope that the management of this institution is humane and foresighted enough to do so.
Grasshoppers require humane treatment when they are farmed, because if they are overcrowded or stressed, they cannibalise each other.
Sorrisi e canzoni XLIX getting prompt and humane medical care dinner with S at a cool new-to-me place the chance to be there for M the good wishes and generosity of so many loving friends Archive 2008-12-01
I had lasted 12 seconds of this revolting and inhumane practice. The Sun
This paper offers a framework to humanely reduce the current surplus of companion-animals and prevent further overpopulation.
When a standoff between ATF agents and Five Points quickly devolves into a violent cataclysm explicitly recalling the 1993 fiasco at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, Smith critiques the horrors of an overreaching, inhumane government that cares more about avoiding bad press than the lives of innocents trapped inside the compound. Cathleen Falsani: Kevin Smith's 'Red State': Masterful, Spiritually Powerful
Yet we deny people the right to die in a humane and dignified way. Times, Sunday Times
Trapped animals are humanely killed. Times, Sunday Times
We want to make sure about the poison used and that it is indeed the most humane method of killing the birds.
Their humane treatment of debtors was also notable. Property and Prophets: The Evolution of Economic Institutions and Ideologies
To call selectively for a more humane perspective in one arena while espousing violent and predatory views in most others is nothing but crass opportunism. New poll data on abortion
It was just humane, and stringent, and it was right. Times, Sunday Times
The humane treatment of the animals was also a major priority.
Rashid, whose own Islam is a civil and humane affair, is revolted by these tribal sectaries.
It was so barbarous and inhumane that polite Romans did not talk about it.
Esther's indomitable humane compassion drives her to risk her own life to oppose narrow and violent evil.
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The Berlin Wall was the visible symbol of the gulag, the pogrom, everything deprave and inhumane of the collectivism and the Soviet Union. The Economics and Philosophy of the Wall, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
I do not think that this should include hypothetical discussions about a management that most would agree to be inhumane.
But when they are in our custody, when they are defenseless, it is a mark of Western civilization that we treat them humanely.
But it is perfectly humane, especially if you fall into the category of those who can't stop choking their dogs with the choke-chain collar.
To render capitalism more humane and efficient was the principal aim of the professional expert.
He deployed the erudition that made his work a source-book of historical and religious criticism in a humane and enquiring spirit, impatient of credulity, superstition, and intolerance.
The close of the year 1894 witnessed an aroused interest, an assertative humane principle which must tend to the extirpation of that crime. The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States
A humane society does not allow it. Times, Sunday Times
It means the animal was raised under a specific set of protocols for humane treatment.
The narrative voice, too, is made vivid: never before in English has the poem sounded less allegorical and more humane.
Moreover, a humane, liberal, decent sort of Tory Foreign Secretary.
It warms your heart more deeply than the standard holiday treacle, but this is, all the same, an intelligent, humane, funny and sorrowful Christmas treat.
The ordinary gallows is comparatively humane; the victim falls through a trap and drops far enough to break his neck and he dies instantly. The Approaching Climax
And the way she acted was like she had been shielded from all of the awful, cruel, inhumane things of the world, like she was in the safety of her own bubble.
Brutal, cruel, inhumane and disturbing violence happens all over the world.
It is so brilliantly made and so deeply humane that you end up feeling better for having watched it. Times, Sunday Times
Worse, Jay, Frist used to ADOPT kitties from the Humane Society, saying he was going to give them good homes, and then proceeded to dissect them. Think Progress » Bush Supports Constitutional Amendment Banning Gay Marriage, Distorts Meaning of Democracy
Seen as a "verligte" in successive apartheid-era cabinets, the posts he accepted carried responsibility for some of apartheid's most bizarre and inhumane policies. ANC Daily News Briefing
For years Nazi Germany's policy abroad has been that of exacting concessions with the threat that otherwise she will perpetrate a world horror by which the humane will be excruciated while she herself, not being humane, will be entertained if not exhilarated. What Is Now At Stake In Europe
Is it the case that this relatively humane practice, the administration of hemlock, is what allows Socrates to consider that his death is not the highest price, that the highest price is the committing of an injustice?
She took the dog and had it destroyed by the Humane Society.
The topic was moles and how to get rid of the pesky creatures which cause havoc in fields and gardens - humanely of course. The Sun
The interior ministers saw no reason to stop this inhumane and barbaric practice, however.
Yet that's just why, tested against everyday life as most people experience it, the bulk of all this intellectual hectoring is inhumane rubbish — contemptuous of desires that aren't necessarily as unworthy or manipulated as charged. Material Girl
The Iranians ran some of the most humane camps, planted with geraniums. Times, Sunday Times
The masculine men were the least supportive, responsive or humane. Between Worlds: A Reader, Rhetoric and Handbook
It takes away all things that makes humans humane - tolerance, trust, generosity and compassion.
She is an informative, analytically rigorous, yet always companionable and deeply humane guide through the moral thicket that is early 21st century assisted reproduction.
Humane and rational reform of the penal system is needed urgently.
This will take some hours and is the most humane household method of euthanasia known at this stage.
More paranoid, certainly crankier, but perhaps also more realistic, a little more humane. Times, Sunday Times
Royal Humane Society, founded in 1774 for the rescue of persons from drowning, and the recovery of dead bodies.
Often an arrangement is accepted as being faster, more cost-effective and more humane.
Lost animals are thus wasteful of both money and opportunity - more persuasive arguments with most of us than humane ones based on the animals' pain. Into Africa - a social history of the East African Safari
It hasn't so much grown up as grown younger and looser and artier and more humane. Times, Sunday Times
Although financially embarrassed owners prove inhumane, the text describes another type of master who is even more dangerous.
He has been treated in a cruel, inhumane and degrading manner, he wants the authorities to answer for that.
I answer many letters from upset owners with all sorts of problems and the majority of them can be sorted out humanely and quickly. Superdog! Action plans that work for a happy and well-behaved pet
In the United States, critically injured racehorses are humanely euthanized by lethal injection.
Log of _The Humane Hopwood_, which heretofore had been a kind of cabalistic Register, full of blots, crosses, half-moons, and zigzags, like the chalk score of an unlettered Ale-wife. The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...
The new government should affirm its commitment to the notion of universities as places of humane scholarship as well as of scientific research. The Times Literary Supplement
Animal right activists claim that animal tests are cruel, inhumane and unnecessary.
Surely these modern methods must be overlooked in favour of a more humane way of dealing with the problem. Times, Sunday Times
It is possible to humanely raise and slaughter a variety of food animals, including free-range poultry and beef cattle.
The new government should affirm its commitment to the notion of universities as places of humane scholarship as well as of scientific research. The Times Literary Supplement
In the mid-nineteenth century, Dorothea Dix began to campaign for humane treatment of the mentally ill.
It should be noted here that even the old trade unionism of being confrontational is being discarded to a much more humane approach that encourages partnership and oneness.
It's essentially like removing a person's first knuckle, I don't give a shit if there's anesthesia involved, it's inhumane and any vet that willingly performs declawing is only in it for the money, they can't possibly care about the animal. Keep Your Cats From Destroying Your Furniture | Lifehacker Australia
The cruel method of hanging a condemned man should be replaced by more humane methods such as lethal injections.
If these criminals would be subjected to inhumane treatment if deported, why not think of that before they do the crime? The Sun
Even in its most inhumane form, child labour, he argues, is not the problem.
Still sooner or later the humane thing to do is just fillet them and throw the rack in the gurry bin and move on …. Think Progress » Cheney criticizes Sarah Palin for suggesting a ‘war on Iran’ could win Obama reelection.
It's a pretty warped definition of excellence that includes standing by while up to 1,200 patients die in appallingly inhumane conditions. The Sun
One person who assisted CiA Inspector General John Helgerson with his probe was Mary O. McCarthy, who alleged CIA officials lied to members of Congress during an intelligence briefing when they said the agency did not violate treaties that bar, cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment of detainees during interrogations, according to a May 14, 2006, front-page story in The Washington Post. Bill of Rights Defense Committee - Headlines
On the whole there is a sincerity and heartiness of interest in his long account of this sect, which persuades one that he was moved by a genuine sympathy with a religion that could enjoin the humane and peaceful and spiritual precepts of Christ, while putting away baptism, ceremonial communion, and hierophantic orders. Voltaire
What authority surfeits on would relieve us: if they would yield us but the superfluity, while it were wholesome, we might guess they relieved us humanely; but they think we are too dear: the leanness that afflicts us, the object of our misery, is as an inventory to particularise their abundance; our sufferance is a gain to them Let us revenge this with our pikes, ere we become rakes: for the gods know I speak this in hunger for bread, not in thirst for revenge. The Tragedy of Coriolanus
While taking someone down with a bullet seems cold, it's actually more humane that dropping a bomb on the individual that will smithereen all the other individuals in the vicinity. Antiwar.com Original
They are killed quickly and humanely in accordance with approved veterinary practices.
The sensitively tendered details and humane presentation, not of a detached and reserved emperor, but of a sincere and forthright man all alone before the world, draws an empathetic response from the viewer.

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