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A lesson in how you can humanise a conflict without even trying.

There didn't seem to be any harm in trying to humanise him, so I went on with the story.

It does not matter how much you humanise her, the things that she actually did stand as a matter of record.

Carter and West know that they need to humanise all the conspicuous consumption.

You are a young man that I should like to put in the witness-box, to humanise the minds of the legal profession.

I wanted to humanise it and look at the emotional impact it has on people."

I therefore believe that the proposal is very appropriate in order to humanise the national provisions on the communication of sales promotions.

Mendeleev's business card is not the only object in the archives to humanise a famous scientist.

Is anybody proud of this estate, except maybe some of the people who live there who've tried to humanise them with their own gardens?

I thought a forgivable vanity would humanise him and make him kind of touching."

Now, I know we must not humanise dogs and, of course, Digby cannot understand a word we are saying.

Although it sanctioned slavery, it did humanise the practice by prohibiting the separation of families.

Perhaps it is simply a need to humanise what is, after all, rather an inhuman subject.)

However sumptuous the scale, Hall (who was appointed their resident costume designer in 1979) could humanise it.

Article 32 proposes to 'humanise' detention for minors, but they should not have to suffer that degradation at all.

Since we have had to accept the loss of many works of art in the past, why not begin to humanise our relationship with contemporary creations?

Job enrichment can humanise an organisation.

In writing The Other Hand, Cleave hoped to "humanise" the issue for readers.

The promise of the social wage, enshrined in the law, had given the miners remarkable room for political manoeuvre to humanise their spartan communities.

The purpose of the Act was to humanise reformatory and industrial schools and orphanages, and to reduce physical punishment.

The trust was named after Terry to personalise and humanise the issue of AIDS.

Seen in that light Mr Perry's change of style may well be a calculated move to humanise a candidate who has struggled to communicate with voters.

The University was, at that time, primarily a technical institution with very little arts activity, and the presence of the artists was intended to humanise the university.

The refounded Labour Party advocated State action to humanise private enterprise - welfare capitalism (or its modern term, market socialism).

Hunt later claimed in a poem about Bacchus and Ariadne the he was seeking to humanise myths and make them more understandable to the common people.

Let's humanize these people and then ask if war is ever the answer to anything.

The two men sitting at the table did nothing to humanize the room.

The system's designers had made no effort to humanize the voice.

Something is wanting to science until it has been humanized.

I guess the question is: will we use that power to humanize the systems we've created?

I consider them humanizing, just as they are for angels.

Does this kind of humanizing bring us closer to truth or real understanding?

The author set himself an impossible task in trying to humanize a hit man.

In that sense, a moment of political betrayal might be seen as humanizing.

The law must be humanized, brought up to d ate.

But when he required rehab, it seemed to humanize him as a person.

Using children to humanize complex political and social issues is an old tactic.

Both say they want to humanize economic policy and emphasize job creation.

I made the biggest mistake you can make- humanizing a machine.

She began to put into action her plan to humanize Biff.

"Part of my goal is to humanize scientists," he said.

It also allows students to present themselves in person, not just on paper, humanizing the application process.

Trying to humanize the enemy wont do us any good.

Public sculpture is a way to humanize an urban environment.

No matter how hard he tried to humanize himself in the final weeks of the campaign, Californians would not give him another chance.

Other actors say that just humanizing the legends can be enough.

She wasn't the only one to end by humanizing the comedy.

I think we all should, if films are to be humanized."

"It would humanize what is a piece of historic real estate."

But maybe this experience will humanize you a bit.