Sentences with phrase «afflict people of»

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Spanning the full spectrum of medicine and afflicting people of all ages and ethnic groups, these diseases encompass some of the most common, severe and disabling conditions affecting Americans.

The disease afflicts people of every age, but has become a particular problem in children, now that about one - fifth of U.S. school - age children are obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Stimulated by real or imagined dangers, anxiety afflicts people of all ages and social backgrounds.

Not exact matches

Gluten and milk intolerances are afflicting a lot of people these days, but luckily the alternatives for wheat and dairy are improving and becoming more widely used.

But while there may be grounds to criticize this popular parenting style, Brooks insists that what really afflicts fragile young people isn't a lack of experience of hardship, but a lack of purpose.

So how does biopharma reverse its R&D ROI rut while also innovating newer, better treatments for the diseases afflicting millions of people?

But, at least in the venture capital world, funding for companies focused on tackling heart disease, respiratory disease, and other mass population conditions — i.e., those that afflict millions upon millions of people — has dropped sharply in the last decade.

After the night with disrupted sleep, the researchers found people had higher levels of beta - amyloid proteins, the proteins that clump together and form the plaque found in Alzheimer's - afflicted brains, in the volunteers» spinal fluid.

It is a condition that afflicts people who have too many passwords, frequently forget their login information, and succumb to a number of side effects, which include crying, screaming, and banging their heads on their desks.

Later he would say that «those kinds of questions [to starve the afflicted child] can be answered best by the people who are right there on the scene, if they think clearly and act responsibly.»

If we were able to conduct a survey of those human beings who are giving the most devoted service to people in need, whether it is to the blind, the deaf and dumb, the leper, the spastic or any other of our afflicted fellow human beings, I am confident that we should find the Christians in the majority.

For we must not forget that in addition to the open crime of the woman many other heinous things afflicted the people, e.g., speculation and the crushing of the poor by the privileged, as is suggested by the note on the frightful prices for the least bit of nourishment.

Someone administering aid to a person afflicted with disease in Africa, for example, may be a representative of a belief system that I believe contributes to the spread of said disease, but I would certainly at least respect the caregiver, as I said, for their actions.

To the credit of the later Judaism, therefore, stands the deepening spiritual quality of its petitions despite the material evils afflicting the people.

The African aid's epidemic is just God's way of clearing away the sinners to them, the prejudged, the cursed, the afflicted, the gays, all just a problem of human waste to them, and yet they fight tooth and nail to save a few centimeters of cell's on some person they don't knows uterine wall.

Doctors say that fat people are afflicted with a variety of illnesses that can be perfectely attributed to their own excess weight.

A more ancient view, still apparent at many points in the Old Testament, had been that righteousness was rewarded by prosperity and long life in this world, and misfortune was a punishment for sin; but as Israel suffered more and more adversity, and the most faithful individuals and groups were the most oppressed and afflicted, it came to be felt that the humble, the meek, the devout, the poor were the righteous people of God, and the mighty and prosperous were the proud, wicked oppressors.

To show mercy is to lift a burden off of afflicted people and take that burden on our own shoulders.

But as more and more of us find ourselves called upon to provide such prosthetic support to afflicted parents, relatives, or friends, we may find it a challenge to remember that such patients are never less than persons.

But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities... he was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth... he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people... although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth... he poured out his soul to death, and was numbered with the transgressors.

This includes the defeat of demonic principalities and powers; breaking the barriers of separation that divided the ancient society — Jewish - Gentile; slave - free; and male - female and the well - being or healing of persons who are afflicted by inner conflicts.

You with your own hand drove out the nations, but them you planted; you afflicted the peoples, but them you set free; for not by their own sword did they win the land, nor did their own arm give them victory; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your countenance, for you delighted in them.

But even if not all the cures recorded in the Gospels actually occurred, it is altogether probable that Jesus healed many people afflicted with various ills of body and mind.

Relaying on Charity to help ease the burdens afflicting people as a result of our politics or economic system is just plain wrong.

Because of their leading role in the world — first in winning the war, then in rebuilding the peace — Americans were highly regarded, and Pope Pius XII sent them a letter, expressing his admiration and expectations: «The American people,» he began, «have a genius for splendid and unselfish action, and into the hands of America, God has placed the destinies of afflicted humanity.»

God, they argued, will not `' pervert justice»; (Job 8:3) he never will «cast away a perfect man,» nor «uphold the evildoers»; (Job 8:20) the wicked man, therefore, «travaileth with pain all his days,» (Job 15:20) terrors «chase him at his heels,» (Job 18:11) and any triumph he may have «is short»; (Job 20:5) the just God allows trouble to fall exclusively on evil men, so that all trouble reveals the precedent wickedness of the sufferer, and to an afflicted person like Job the proper message is, «God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.»

And God said, I will build a church here And cause this people to worship me, And afflict them with poverty and sickness In return for centuries of hard work And patience.

The church gave ALL of it away not only to homeless people afflicted by hurricane Sandy but also to various charitable organizations in the South East (homeless shelters, orphanages, kitchen for the homeless, red cross, etc).

In a recent poll from Quebec — where lethal - injection euthanasia is legal — a chilling 72 percent of caregivers favor permitting Alzheimer's patients to be euthanized, even if the afflicted person never requested euthanasia.

From being a hard hater, their God became, in their imagination and belief, a merciful lover of his people, the depth of whose sacrificial compassions it strained their language to fathom: «In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.»

The cause of all this hatred, war and bloodshed, all this animosity and disunity, is that we afflict the people we disagree with.

And at this climax, Lamentations embraces words that have continued to bring incalculable solace to persons in all branches of biblical faith in all time: Yahweh will not cast off for ever, but, though he cause grief, he will have compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love (hesed); for he does not willingly afflict or grieve the sons of men.

The principles that have emerged thus far are these: We should seek new knowledge of our genes (and we can say this without deciding whether the Human Genome Initiative is the wisest and most cost - effective way to do so) We should seek therapies for the genetic disorders that afflict many people.

In answering her query I pointed out that it is often difficult or even impossible to be absolutely certain that a given person is afflicted with the alcoholic sickness, but that there is a useful rule of thumb which often gives one a valid clue.

Gullibility is something that afflicts a lot of people.

It was as if Jesus were still with them and responding to the needs of the sick and afflicted people who called on him for help.

Doctors say that fat people are afflicted by a variety of illnesses that can be perfectely attributed to their particular excess weight.

Research on Golden Rice continues to be motivated by its potential contributions to solving the global problem of VAD that afflicts more than 200 million people, especially women and children.

Legend has it that Montezuma's «curse» afflicts all non-indigenous persons who trespass on the lands formerly controlled by the Mexicas... the Aztec Emperor's «revenge» for the destruction of the Aztec empire by outsiders.

Actually, it seems most things afflicting people nowadays can be attributed to yeast based on the amounts of sugar (or foods that convert to sugar in your body) in most peoples diets.

I understood very well the power of discussing the actual problem that you want to address with the people who are most afflicted.

It is very doubtful that either parent can supply the emotional support the children need, afflicted as both parents are with myopia so severe as to disable these persons, at least temporarily, in their several roles as father and mother of the children.

In February, DuPont / Chemours, a former major manufacturer of PFOA, agreed to a $ 670 million settlement in a federal class - action lawsuit in Columbus, Ohio, that was filed on behalf of approximately 3,550 people who said they were afflicted with diseases as a result of PFOA contamination of their drinking water.

DeFrancisco — one of several lawmakers who expressed interest in expanding the scope of issues in a final deal — pointed to legislation to help people afflicted by flooding along the shores of Lake Ontario, as well as the need by this fall for the Legislature to extend the extra sales taxes.

A Board of Trustees member, Peoples Democratic Party, Prof. Tunde Adeniran, has proffered a political solution to the lingering leadership crisis afflicting the erstwhile ruling party.

The first «World Conference on Untouchability» has prompted questions in the House of Commons and the House of Lords about government policy towards the global human rights problem of caste discrimination, which afflicts almost 250 million people in countries from Japan to Nigeria.

It is important for us to come to this realization: at a specific point in the lives of a people afflicted with the darkness of enslavement, be it mental or physical, help was always provided from Above.

The additional deaths were only just reported to the department on Sunday and the number of persons afflicted has increased to 81.

Because of the inflexibility and pervasiveness of these patterns, they can cause serious problems and impairment of functioning for the persons who are afflicted with these disorders.