Sentences with phrase «afflicted human beings»

And we should focus our therapeutic efforts on particular afflicted human beings, not on humankind.

That approach both expresses and encourages an attitude that opposes not disease and disorder but the diseased and afflicted human being.

Many deadly diseases that afflict humans were originally acquired through contact with animals.

It's actually been probably afflicting human beings and their close kin for [a] half million years.

As for xenotransplantation, some of the most virulent viral diseases afflicting humans are believed to have crossed over from other species to humans.

Not exact matches

«As Governor Brownback knows, advancing religious freedom will not only reduce the spiking persecution that is afflicting millions of human beings and religious minorities around the world.

They promote needless fertilizer and deleterious pesticide imports and, on the whole, human rights are in peril in the economic, social and political spheres when the Bank - Fund dependencies syndrome afflicts the borrowing countries.

The longer we as human beings continue to shirk responsibility for everything we all do, the longer the world will be afflicted with pain and suffering.

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.

In the encyclical Aeterni Patris Leo XIII wrote that «a fruitful causeof the evils which now afflict, as well as of those which threaten us, lies in this: that false conclusions concerning divine and human things, which originated in the schools of philosophy, have crept into all the orders of the State, and have been accepted by the common consent of the masses.»

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.

Moreover, we are sometimes afflicted with a sense of impending crisis, lending force to Niebuhr's observation that «one of the most pathetic aspects of human history is that every civilization expresses itself most pretentiously, compounds its partial and universal values most convincingly, and claims immortality for its finite existence at the very moment when the decay which leads to death has already begun.»

Increasingly, we seek to be an alternative in a society that is often destructive of human relationships and humane values, a society afflicted by a chronic low - grade nihilism that is masked but not healed by material affluence.

The conscience can be afflicted (made sick or unhealthy) just like any other part of the human being and in this case, what happens is that the external shame cycle becomes interiorized.

The human situation is (apparently) irremediably afflicted with the accursed quality of the divisive, both in language and in geographical dispersion.

«Whoso turns his attention to the bitter strifes of these days and seeks a reason for the troubles that vex public and private life must come to the conclusion that a fruitful cause of the evils which now afflict, as well as those which threaten, us lies in this: that false conclusions concerning divine and human things, which originated in the schoolsof philosophy, have now crept into all the orders of the State, and have been accepted by the common consent of the masses.»

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.

Satan influences human beings to commit evil acts and afflict pain on others, thus Satan may have also corrupted the animal creation.

Daemons are good or benevolent «supernatural beings between mortals and gods, such as inferior divinities and ghosts of dead heroes» and differ from the Judeo - Christian usage of demon, a malignant spirit that can seduce, afflict, or possess humans.

The afflicted one was always assumed to be punished by divine wrath as well as by unanimous human judgment.

When we are faced with incurable congenital diseases, when our fellow human beings are afflicted with cancer, diabetes, tumours, arthritis, damaged organs and other body parts, and many others, I believe a miracle is indispensable.

As a nature enthusiast and bird - watcher who also is afflicted by asthma, she is concerned about air pollution and the impact humans are having on the global environment.

Today's humans are afflicted with ailments that virtually didn't exist for our nomadic forbears.

Most of those afflicted live in developing countries, where there is not enough clean drinking water or effective sanitation systems to keep infected feces from contaminating food and water, and where human excrement is used to fertilize crops.

Yet the massive elephant, which has 100 - times more cells than a human and lives for 60 to 70 years, is rarely afflicted by this disease.

Additionally, 2013 MRI research from Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University and McLean Imaging Center at McLean Hospital showed that the structural brain abnormalities of Doberman pinschers afflicted with canine compulsive disorder (CCD) were similar to those of humans with OCD.

Though agricultural intensification and climate change could pose new challenges for managing liver fluke transmission, early results in the afflicted Lawa Lake region are promising, with human infection rates in the worst - hit areas down to below 10 %, fish infection rates dropping from 70 % to below 1 %, and no infected snails detected.

In a research essay to be published this week in the Entomological Society of America's Journal of Economic Entomology, Robert Owen argues that human activity is a key driver in the spread of pathogens afflicting the European honey bee (Apis mellifera)-- the species primarily responsible for pollination and honey production around the world — and recommends a series of collective actions necessary to stem their spread.

Enter a mutant mouse strain that is afflicted at a young age with many of the diseases common to older humans.

But scientists from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore now say the animals were afflicted by a disease and that there is no sign, so far, of any harm to human health.

The results of the research, which was published in the journal Cancer Cell, indicated that human drugs for cancer can help save DFT - afflicted Tasmanian devils.

(Lubenow, like many creationists, claims that Neandertals are normal humans afflicted with diseases such as rickets.

Humans suffer from an array of diseases that do not afflict chimpanzees or are less severe in them.

Most of those afflicted live in developing countries, where there is not enough clean drinking water or effective sanitation systems to keep infected feces from contaminating food and water, and where human excrement is used to fertilize crops.

Afflictions are a common malady among the human beings whether self - inflicted (adhyatmika) or afflicted by another.

Imagine now that over 1:30 humans have celiac disease or are afflicted with the other related food intolerances (casein, soy, and / or corn)- food induced villous atrophy of the duodenum and jejunum.

Director Sam Mendes is playing a dangerous game here, afflicting an icon of invincibility and cool with human vulnerability and self - doubt.

There is little pretension, and none of the «oh so cute animals doing human things» business that afflicts many similar films.

Noticing that his mother has passed the effects of the drug genetically to young Caesar, Will is shocked to see just how extensive the side effects are, resulting in Caesar developing a mind far beyond any ape, as well as typically human traits such as empathy and compassion, leading to a bond between the chimp and Will's Alzheimer's - afflicted father Charles (John Lithgow).

A hauntingly intimate, deeply compassionate story about things that touch and test our human core, Wish You Were Here also looks, inevitably, to a wider, afflicted world.

Live free and love hard, keep rockin'the mic and the black fedora, keep connected and reach out to give to get, fight The Man, love what's to love and transcend what's to hate, make fun of the hopelessly powerful, pity the stupid as long as they aren't in power, do: do not wish, bring comfort to the afflicted, chocolate every day (non-negotiable), help the poor by not being one of them, embrace the human zoo experience and stop to smell the coffee!

OK, so maybe not the cause of ALL illness, but I would argue that this problem is the root of the majority of the chronic diseases that afflict humans and domesticated animals alike in our modern society.

Future plans are to utilize a similar model to investigate other common laryngeal diseases that afflict the human population, including Reinke's edema and vocal fold paralysis.

Maybe the earth should just have another ice age or major catastrophe or the best fit scenario would be a plague that afflicted only human life and and get rid of humans.

Cats can become afflicted with diabetes mellitus just like people, and feline diabetes can be controlled in cats much in the same manner as diabetes in humans.

Some symptoms of hypothyroidism in dogs are similar to those of humans afflicted with the same disorder.

While 50 percent of some of the larger dog breeds are afflicted, the disease is not unknown in humans.

The common cold is not communicable between species, and dogs suffer from a different type of cold that the kind that afflicts humans, so your dog can't catch a cold from you — or vice versa.

ZALINGEI, West Darfur, Sudan — On top of the human toll, the conflict in Darfur is afflicting the environment, says Abuelgasim Abdalla Adam, dean of the faculty of forestry sciences at the University of Zalingei.

The indutrial revolution was simply the most evil calamity to have ever afflict mankind; it has multiplied human misery exponentially and reduced blessed equality.