suffering humanity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsufferingandhumanity
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suffering
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈsʌf.ər.ɪŋ/us/ˈsʌf.ɚ.ɪŋ/
physical or mental pain that a person or animal ...
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humanity
noun
uk/hjuːˈmæn.ə.ti/us/hjuːˈmæn.ə.t̬i/
people ...
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(Definition ofsufferingandhumanityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Here is a great mass of poverty-strickensufferinghumanity.
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They were concerned mainly with management and administration, and only remotely with people, withsufferinghumanity.
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If education can contribute to this moral, intellectual and spiritual revolution, then it offerssufferinghumanityreal hope.
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It is those principles, and those principles alone, which must govern our attitude and action towards this vast branch of toiling andsufferinghumanity.
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We are inclined to err on the side of the offender and to overlook thesufferinghumanitywho are at the receiving end of these offences.
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They were concerned with management and administration and were only remotely concerned with people and withsufferinghumanity.
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It had originally been erected opposite the hospital in which he had tried to servesufferinghumanity.
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What a speech he would have made to urge the case for help tosufferinghumanity.
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These gentlemen were interested in research which might do some good forsufferinghumanity.
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I believe also that we still have it within us to make a contribution tosufferinghumanityin other parts of the world.
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The avenues of escape from this reservoir ofsufferinghumanityare few and dangerous.
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It is not the science itself; it is not the technology itself; it is the good effects that can be brought about forsufferinghumanity.
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There are people—and it is to the credit of our poor,sufferinghumanitythat it is so—who will tell the whole truth about themselves whatever the consequences may be.
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We shall be recovering some of the motive force which a nation needs, and we shall be doing something which is badly needed for a great mass ofsufferinghumanity.
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If we can help them to make and sell competitively with the rest of us then we shall have done the best we can forsufferinghumanity.
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Tonight we have heard a great deal aboutsufferinghumanity.
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I have always understood that a qualified practitioner, whatever the level of his skill or expertise, undertook to give his services to any member ofsufferinghumanity, regardless of conditions.
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In the fresco above the nave, the saint is shown interceding on behalf ofsufferinghumanity.
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Also, seven acres (28,000 m) were set aside forsufferinghumanity.
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To know oneself was to know man's powerlessness and to know the indestructible and conquering majesty ofsufferinghumanity.
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