It holds an equally valuable lesson for a society where the word `` intellectual '' has become a term of opprobrium to millions of well-meaning people who somehow imagine that it must be destructive of the simpler human virtues.

In addition to pollution through human activities, millions of tons of petroleum enter the marine environment every year from natural seepages.

The human mind is bombarded with millions of stimuli and it must have a way of deciding which of this information to process.

Today it is widely regarded as a brutal movement which inflicted massive human rights violations on millions of people.

The things we hold highest in our human experience ( love, memory, dreams, and a predisposition for religious thought ) result from a particular agglomeration of ad hoc solutions that have been piled on through millions of years of evolution history.

By the human perspective, resources are non-renewable when their rate of consumption exceeds the rate of replenishment / recovery ; a good example of this are fossil fuels, which are in this category because their rate of formation is extremely slow ( potentially millions of years ), meaning they are considered non-renewable.

To carry out such a massive enterprise involving the registration, assembly and transportation of millions of people at a time when the necessary material and human resources were already severely stretched, would be a formidable logistical challenge.

Today, child and adult slavery and forced labour are illegal in most countries, as well as being against international law, but a high rate of human trafficking for labor and for sexual bondage continues, believed to affect millions of adults and children.

Wild populations of animals and plants have evolved naturally over millions of years through a process of natural selection in contrast to human controlled selective breeding or artificial selection for desirable traits from the human point of view.

The number of unique protein species likely increase by between 50, 000 and 500, 000 due to RNA splicing and proteolysis events, and when post-translational modification are also considered, the total number of unique human proteins is estimated to range in the low millions.

Hundreds of millions of children – no longer fitting with what Jan defines as " human " – remain on the quarantined continent.

Laden also states that the AAH was proposed when knowledge of human evolutionary history was unclear, while more recent research has found that many human traits have emerged at different times over millions of years, rather than simultaneously due to a single evolutionary pressure.

He wrote again on the Famine on 14 February, condemning the inadequate response, and asked whether the Government had even yet any conception that there might be soon " millions of human beings in Ireland having nothing to eat ".

The number of diagnosed cases of human louse infestations ( or pediculosis ) has increased worldwide since the mid-1960s, reaching hundreds of millions annually.

Sphincters are found in many animals ; there are over 50 types in the human body, some microscopically small, in particular the millions of precapillary sphincters.

Coal, produced over millions of years, is an inherently finite and non-renewable resource on a human time scale.

At a Washington, D. C. convention in 1935, Rutherford rejected Russell's teaching that the " great company " of Revelation 7: 9 was a " secondary spiritual class " composed of millions of Christians who would be resurrected to heaven apart from the 144, 000 " elect ", and instead argued that the " great multitude ", the " sheep " of Matthew 25 and the " Jonadabs " of 2 Kings chapter 10 all picture the people who could potentially survive Armageddon and receive everlasting human life on earth if they became Jehovah's Witnesses before it began.

But when the game is played by eminent statesmen, who risk not only their own lives but those of many hundreds of millions of human beings, it is thought on both sides that the statesmen on one side are displaying a high degree of wisdom and courage, and only the statesmen on the other side are reprehensible.

He uses the analogy of the biome of the human body, having more bacterial than human cells, but depending upon millions of other organisms, each pursuing their own interest, but nevertheless weaving a co-operative web.

We shall no longer take part in the deprivation of basic human rights from millions of Palestinians.

Mindpixel was a web-based collaborative artificial intelligence project which aimed to create a knowledgebase of millions of human validated true / false statements, or probabilistic propositions.

In thus providing for the support of millions of civilized beings, they will not violate any dictate of justice or of humanity ; for they will not only give to the few thousand savages scattered over that territory an ample equivalent for any right they may surrender, but will always leave them the possession of lands more than they can cultivate, and more than adequate to their subsistence, comfort, and enjoyment, by cultivation.

In thus providing for the support of millions of civilized beings, they will not violate any dictate of justice or of humanity ; for they will not only give to the few thousand savages scattered over that territory an ample equivalent for any right they may surrender, but will always leave them the possession of lands more than they can cultivate, and more than adequate to their subsistence, comfort, and enjoyment, by cultivation.

: Can the peaceful, the stable, and the free world for which we hope be created if it is envisioned from the outset as half slave and half free ?- if hundreds of millions of human beings are told that they are destined to remain indefinitely under alien subjection?

I woke up with serious responsibilities toward millions of other human beings.

Vorlons conceal their identity to prevent undesired reactions from younger races: having evolved into incorporeal lifeforms millions of years before, the Vorlons appear as radiant beings of light, which most of the younger races interpreted as signs of divinity.

He has devoted himself to the study of Earth's solar system and its sentient beings for millions of years.

The beings living on the etheric plane of Venus are said to be hundreds of millions of years ahead of us in their spiritual evolution.

Storylines using such fields often have materials as well as living beings surviving thousands or millions of years beyond their normal lifetimes.

Dixon studied geology and palaeontology at the University of St. Andrews and is best known for his illustrated works of speculative fiction, which largely concern " zoologies of the future ": his own visions of how human beings and animals might evolve in millions of years ' time.

Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that `` with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved ''.

`` E. B. '' compared John Brown to Moses in that they were both acting to deliver millions from oppression.

Two millions were added to what had been set aside for it in Mrs. Meeker's lifetime, and the proviso made that as long as Brian Thayer continued to discharge his duties as administrator of the fund to the satisfaction of the board of trustees ( hereinafter appointed by the bank administering the estate ) he was to be retained in his present capacity at a salary commensurate with the increased responsibilities enlargement of the fund would entail.

The Alps were formed over hundreds of millions of years as the African and Eurasian tectonic plates collided ; the extreme compression caused by the event resulted in marine sedimentation rising and folding into high mountain peaks such as Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn.

* Edwina Currie resigns as a junior Health minister for incorrectly claiming that millions of British eggs were infected with salmonella, stating that " most of egg production " was infected ( 1988 )

Following revelations about Dr Chai Patel and others who were recommended for peerages after lending the Labour party money, the Treasurer of the party, Jack Dromey said he had not been involved and did not know the party had secretly borrowed millions of pounds in 2005.

However, beyond this theoretical significance, efficient and scalable algorithms for SAT that were developed over the last decade have contributed to dramatic advances in our ability to automatically solve problem instances involving tens of thousands of variables and millions of constraints.

Arguably one of the largest warfares in the 19th century in terms of troops involvement, there were massive lost of lives, with a death toll of about 20 millions.

Nevertheless, millions of people were rehoused as a result of the Attlee government's housing policies.

By the recent turn of the century, however, his paintings were selling for millions.

Rosenthal claimed that millions of dollars Day lost were in real estate sold after Melcher died in 1968, in which Rosenthal asserted that the attorneys gave Day bad advice, telling her to sell, at a loss, three hotels, in Palo Alto, Dallas and Atlanta and some oil leases in Kentucky and Ohio.

As World War II unfolded, Nazi Germany deported and killed millions of Jews and many millions of others were likewise enslaved or murdered, including Ukrainians, Russians and other Slavs.

At the culmination of the ensuing months-long legal dispute, he watched, as described by Sandford, " millions of dollars of his future earnings being surrendered " in what were " uniquely generous terms for Defries ", then " shut himself up in West 20th Street, where for a week his howls could be heard through the locked attic door.

Extermination camps ( or death camps ) were camps built by Nazi Germany during the Second World War ( 1939 – 45 ) to systematically kill millions of people by gassing and extreme work under starvation conditions.

The main purpose of illustrated songs was to encourage sheet music sales, and they were highly successful with sales reaching into the millions for a single song.

Unemployment dropped to 2 %, relief programs largely ended, and the industrial economy grew rapidly to new heights as millions of people moved to new jobs in war centers, and 16 million men and 300, 000 women were drafted or volunteered for military service.

The seaport area was largely destroyed by withdrawing German troops and millions of encircled refugees in 1945 being bombarded by Soviet Military ( 90 % of the buildings and equipment were destroyed ) and the harbour entrance was blocked by the German battleship Gneisenau that had been brought to Gotenhafen for major repairs.

During and after the war millions of civilians were affected by forced population transfers.

In accordance with the Allied agreement made at the Yalta conference millions of POWs were used as forced labor by the Soviet Union and other European countries.

Much of the Duvaliers ' wealth, amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars over the years, came from the Régie du Tabac ( Tobacco Administration ), a tobacco monopoly established by Estimé, which expanded to include the proceeds from all government enterprises and served as a slush fund for which no balance sheets were ever kept.

The first ancestral hyenas were likely similar to the modern banded palm civet ; one of the earliest hyena species exhumed, Plioviverrops, was a lithe, civet-like animal that inhabited Eurasia 20-22 millions years ago, and is identifiable as a hyaenid by the structure of the middle ear and dentition.

Extant species in the Cryptobranchidae family are the modern-day members of a lineage that extends back millions of years — the earliest fossil records of a basal species date back to the Middle Jurassic and were found in volcanic deposits in northern China.

Following her cremation, millions of Sikhs were displaced and nearly three thousand were killed in anti-Sikh riots.