His purpose is to humanise the coffee experience by bringing to life the hardships faced by labourers.

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What it does do is humanise the polemic at its centre.

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They must tame it, accompany it, humanise it, civilise it.

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It could be that Mr Sarkozy's fainting episode in July, after which he was briefly hospitalised, has helped to humanise the hyperactive president in the eyes of French voters.

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Better pain management, an effort to give patients a greater say in their treatment and attempts to humanise technology-heavy American hospitals have all considerably improved the lot of the dying.

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Her great achievement was to humanise them and the South.

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As a means of rewaking morality in this climate of reduced moral sensibility, he says that we need to humanise our ethics, that is, to root it in human needs and values.

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The Geneva Conventions, for instance, are shown coming about when one branch of the peace movement stopped trying to abolish war, and worked with governments to humanise the way that wars were fought.

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AOL's rise to become the dominant provider of on-line services, as told by Kara Swisher, a technology writer on the Wall Street Journal, is surprisingly gripping given that its main protagonist Mr Case defies all Ms Swisher's attempts to humanise him.

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