How to Use human relations in a Sentence

human relations

noun
  • The evolution of human relations and the temper of the hour will not allow it.
    James Parker, The Atlantic, 19 July 2019
  • With its human relations a bit dicey, the movie lives or dies by the cuteness of its CG animals.
    Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2021
  • By then, Zeke said, Emanuel had sharpened his innate feel for human relations.
    Connie Bruck, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2021
  • The result is a war of races, and the annihilation of all proper human relations.
    Annika Neklason, The Atlantic, 17 Feb. 2018
  • Many of the workers hired over the years have been fellow SDSU students with a natural gift for human relations.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 July 2023
  • In his new role, Sandefur will work on a way to boost the contributions of human relations and labor professionals in the plants.
    Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 2 Feb. 2021
  • Beth Nissen, the human relations director for Vista Health System, said there are now 29 nurses working on site who were sent by the state.
    Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, 26 Jan. 2022
  • The story wasn’t ridiculous enough, however, to put him off further tales of chimp-human relations.
    Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2021
  • What a strange, fragmented, poignant state of human relations.
    Kyle Smith, National Review, 25 Apr. 2021
  • The young members of the Georgian dance group all smoke like chimneys, and their world, and the world around them, has seriously retrograde ideas about human relations.
    Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2020
  • In mid-June, Felicia Mayo, one of Tesla’s vice presidents of human relations, stepped down after two years on the job.
    Rex Crum, The Mercury News, 26 June 2019
  • Amid boiling racial hatred, the young priest helped found and then led an interfaith council on human relations.
    Emily Langer, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2017
  • Throughout her career, Ms. Puno has used games as a means to consider human relations.
    Jillian Steinhauer, New York Times, 23 July 2019
  • In high school, Maya was a straight A-student, member of debate, technology and human relations clubs.
    Time, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The patterns of human relations never cease to interest him.
    D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Men don’t observe each passing cloud over human relations as if their whole future depended on it.
    Hillel Italie, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2022
  • For the vast majority of our species’ history, those were the two principal categories of human relations: kin and gods.
    Chris Hayes, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2021
  • City officials contracted the firm after Blue filed a human relations complaint against Kirkley-Bey.
    Vinny Vella, Courant Community, 8 Dec. 2017
  • But the psychological experience of fame, like a virus invading a cell, takes all of the mechanisms for human relations and puts them to work seeking more fame.
    Chris Hayes, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2021
  • The painstaking attention to how the smallest units of language can be used or misused scales up to momentous questions about errors or missteps in human relations.
    Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2023
  • The company also snagged a deal to partner with global human relations provider Randstad Holding NV.
    Sarah Hauer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2018
  • The snicker-snack of addiction is inside consumerism, and inside the version of human relations that is determined by consumerism.
    James Parker, The Atlantic, 10 June 2018
  • Moreover, Nash says the issue has shown the commission still has work to do in promoting positive human relations and educating each other and the public on how to do so.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2022
  • Washington and Canales are members of the township's human relations commission, the purpose of which is to recognize and spotlight the various groups that make up township.
    Frank Vaisvilas, Daily Southtown, 24 Sep. 2017
  • No less challenge is the desire for simplicity in human relations.
    John Baldoni, Forbes, 12 Nov. 2021
  • For most of human history, slavery was simply assumed in most cultures to be a natural part of human relations.
    Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 22 Sep. 2020
  • Rud pointed to a human relations company that is a Bureau Gravity client.
    Steve Lord, Aurora Beacon-News, 4 June 2018
  • Alas, the twins’ younger sister, Eliza, is studying human relations at Utah Valley University.
    Mark Eddington, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Hurts, who is seeking a master’s degree in human relations, will eventually face stouter defenses, with a schedule that includes Texas and Iowa State.
    Alan Blinder, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Being in a community feels like an improvement on human relations in general.
    Ana Marie Cox, The New Republic, 14 Sep. 2023

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