Sentences with phrase «against the pain of»

Carnegie Mellon neuroeconomist George Loewenstein says, «credit - cards... anaesthetize your brain against the pain of payment.»

A TV where a man is watching movies as a way of numbing himself against the pain of reality... another way of escape.

Non-steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs) are generally used as the first line of defense against the pain of OA.

Ditrich posited that children who engage in pseudologia fantastica do so in order to defend against the pain of an unbearable, present reality (12).

Not exact matches

Whose tragic and untimely death was used against her son at his most vulnerable, unspeakable time of pain.

But when you balance the unpleasantness of using a tool that helps a child fart against the pain etched across your little one's face when he or she can't pass gas on their own, you'll be thrilled someone took the initiative and invented this thing.

The pain that this start up is aiming to solve is the one that many of us have experienced, the terrible process of going to an apartment viewing only to battle against 100 other applicants.

Intent data is an interpretation of implied pain points, and it provides a stark advantage against a competitor: timing.

The counsel of such a person will be, measured against what the addict knows about pleasure and pain, uninformed.

After the Arab child was murdered they cried out in shared sorrow, grief, and pain against this horror, as did the Israeli Prime Minister and other government officials of note and eminence.

This doesn't always happen, because we live in a twisted world (cf. the book of Job), but when we experience pain and suffering, it is never because God is punishing us for some real (or imagined) sin against Him.

I just don't see that Jesus reveals this kind of God, a God that is vindictive toward His enemies, who inflicts pain and punishment on people because they go against His will.

It is proof against EVERY detractor of EVERY conversation revealing abuse and hurt and pain.

In this kind of theodicy Gethesemane, the cross, and the resurrection are important foci for understanding the depths of God's love, who, in creating an unimaginatively complex matrix of matter eventuating finally in persons able to choose to go against God's intentions, nonetheless grieves for and suffers with this beloved creation, both in the pain its natural course brings all its creatures and in the evil that its human creatures inflict upon it.

Humans have brought the pain and suffering of sickness, violence, and starvation upon themselves by their willful, sinful acts against God.

But it is obscene for the person in Scarsdale to suggest that his pain is somehow on a par with, or can be balanced off against, that of the person in Harlem.

Using a series of rhetorical questions, the prophet pushes aside the numbness that is our common defense against pain.

Maybe I'm the Gnostic for stoically accepting the isolation of faltering and pain without even a whispered protest against the dying of the light.

«Imaginings and resonances and pain and small longings and prejudices,» she continues, still looking out at the sea, «meant nothing against the resolute hardness of the sea.

In his more recent writings, he even attempts to combine an ironic sense of the radical contingency of our language, desires, and beliefs, with a strong commitment to liberal political values, such as the need to fight against pain and suffering and the importance of achieving solidarity as members of a community.

This is not a glorification of alcohol; it is the scratchings against the door of a man in pain.

GOVERNMENT «AFTERLIFE» FLASH MOB OR REAL SHOOTING IN UTOYA, NORWAY!!? stateofterror.blogspot.com / or stateofterror.wordpress.com / TEARS OF SORROW AND PAIN ON FACES OF MOURNERS OR TEAR GAS AND THEATER / HYPOCRISY ON FACES OF MULTICULTURALISM MANIACS!!? NORWEGIAN OSLO POLICE or COMMUNIST / LIBERAL CRIMINALS IN BLUE UNIFORMS WHO WERE PREPARING FOR TERROR AGAINST NORWAY ALREADY HALF DECADE AHEAD!!? No doubt about bombing in Oslo, but what about shooting in Utoya which was no different from the one in Arizona!!!? WILL THERE BE OBAMINATOR MORALES»S APOCALYPSE NOW OR TOTAL WAR AGAINST NEW WORLD ORDER (multiculturalism)!!? STOLTENBERG = BREIVIK (90 minutes vs 30 and for government vehicles or police even 20 minutes the most)!!!

It is women who are taking the lead in this global struggle, because feminization of poverty, violence against women, dehumanizing treatment of women and all other forms of pains imposed on women drive them to fight back.

There's the possibility that people can be feisty and determined and brave and fight against letting their past create their future and yet still be aware of the pain of it.

Sometimes they'd come two or three days in a row lasting ten hours each time, never really going away, ebbing and rising as I skipped dinner and curled up in bed with palms pressed against my temples hoping for any loosening of pain's grip.

Knowing the usual professional hazard of becoming hardened to the very human dramas that first moved him to the ministry, he will beware lest he add to it the conscious hardening that serves as defense against pain and loss.

May they be remembered not only for their acts of cruelty in this camp... but balance against their cruelty the fruits we have reaped under the stress and in the pain; the comradeship, the courage, the greatness of heart, the humility and patience which have... become part of our lives because we have suffered at their hands.

Whenever an impulse from the world strikes against the organism, and the resultant is not discomfort or pain, not even the muscular contraction of strenuous manhood, but a joyous expansion or aspiration of the whole soul - there is religion.

Those tastes of glory keep us going back to the same sources of affirmation, or the memories of pain keep us locked up and guarded against people who remind us of someone who hurt us earlier in life.

God fights against violence by recognizing it for the evil that it is, and by taking the pain and suffering caused by evil upon Himself, thus emptying it of its power.

As to the aesthetic reaction against the task of considering method, this is a pain with which the minister has to live, a pain he shares with every writer, painter, musician, or other artistic spirit.

It is easy to raise a cry of pain and outrage against the destructiveness of the American economy on our own poor people, on other societies and on the ecosystem.

A hangover period following a binge may present a «little bottom» — i.e., a state of emotional receptivity during which the alcoholic's defenses against recognizing his need for help are temporarily cracked by the physical and emotional pain of the experience.

Think of all the wrongs crying to be righted, all the pain needing relief, all the illnesses requiring cures, all the evil that ought to be conquered and destroyed, all the sins that should be forgiven and obliterated, even life itself struggling against death and needing his divine intervention to survive.

(Hebrews 11:10) We read how Everyman (you and I) is beset by hostile powers, against which he must strive on pain of extinction («There is no discharge in that war»).

Resentment arises from an inability or refusal to accept the brute reality of the world; it is a rebellion against life itself, a hatred of the pain, the joy, the fullness of existence.

Ultimately, resentment is directed against the cause of pain; and it arises when we become conscious of our painful condition, and attempt to numb our suffering by negating or evading all occasions for pain.

Unlike Ruth Levy, whose lung cancer caused her no physical pain, Mr. Smith's tumor pressed against his spine and kept him in agony much of the time.

Those of us who are not evil must fight against it with the freedom we've been given to move forward and do good, even amidst the pain.

I don't minimize pain and suffering and disappointment when prayer is unanswered, but I think we are making uneducated accusations against God without fighting our way into matters of spiritual laws, forces and significance.

Euthanasia (even when the recipient is in untold pain) is still a hotly debated subject... Kevin Peiterson plays cricket, cricket balls are made of cow hide, not synthetic leather yet he wants to lead a protest against animal cruelty, ironic indeed.

which one of you guys on here will see an opportunity for progress and just let it slip... personally I feel his pain & manure are back stabbing b #tches... he's just too good for turkish fc — remember his world cup header against spain... super!!!

Winning against the like of West Ham and QPR seems to be enough for some to forget the pain we suffered thanks to our manager in the past 10 years.

The Frenchman has already played through the pain to feature against the Foxes this term, but this is a different injury, which is currently keeping one of his eyes from opening.

We seem to have to measure our ease against others» pain before we can be of service.

... I lost my balance... falling on top of my opponent... I hit my face against [Chiellini], leaving a small bruise on my cheek and a strong pain in my teeth.

THE PAIN OF 12 YEARS OF SUFFERING, SEEING SAME FALLS AT THE MIDDLE OF THE SEASON AND NOTHING CHANGES turn us against each other.

Honestly it pains me to say this, i'm a huge supporter and admirer of Gabriel paulista but after his nightmare and out of sorts defending display, i hope he doesn't start against barcelona!

On to West Ham, they are a pain in the Arse for any side, Slaven Bilic is a very methodical man (he's d #ck) but his tactics are well calculated, for those who followed his career should be aware he is the master of the «smash an grab» especailly against opponents who are better than his own team.

Then the weekend was spent not only losing to the Nationals, but also losing healthy players: In addition to Steven Matz and Seth Lugo, New York has recently added Lucas Duda and Wilmer Flores to the DL, saw Yoenis Cespedes miss the entire series against the Nats for his hamstring, and had Asdrubal Cabrera playing in spite of the pain in his own legs.