Sentences with phrase «against the stress of»

The adrenal glands are your body's first line of defense against the stresses of daily living — they give orders to the reproductive organs, play a role in metabolism and regulate the fight - or - flight response.

Fats from saltwater fish are rich in omega - 3s and have many positive benefits, including cardiovascular protection due to different prostaglandins, lowering of cholesterol, and protection against the stress of overtraining.

The high vitamin A content of their diets insured them excellent bone structure, wide handsome faces with plenty of room for the teeth and ample protection against stress of all types.

The benefits of hospitalizing a cat will always need to be weighed against the stress of the experience.

If you're unemployed, you're facing off against the stress of financial instability and the lack of a salary.

Not exact matches

Ban Ki - moon rejected labels of the U.S. president's controversial tweets as provocative, stressing the need for a unified voice against Pyongyang

A greater sense of purpose can also provide a buffer against stress.

Daniel Klier, HSBC's head of strategy, told the FT that HSBC would «disclose [its] carbon footprint and stress test [its] lending book against carbon pricing.»

Even though the US has encouraged dialogue between Manila and Beijing (despite Duterte's tirades against the US), it has stressed the importance of adhering to the ruling issued in July.

Polman foresaw a litany of other problems ahead, he told investors, listing these: «subdued economic growth, geopolitical tension, the resultant backlash against globalization and technology, a planet under increasing environmental stress, and the fragmentation of consumer trends, shopping channels, and media.»

Rather, the challenge was the inadvertent result of my 2009 insistence on stress testing our methods of classifying return / risk profiles against Depression - era data.

After the 2008 collapse that we had anticipated, the behavior of the markets and the economy became «out of sample» from the standpoint of post-war data, and I insisted on stress - testing our methods against Depression - era data.

This unfortunately dismisses the central lesson to be drawn from the awkward transition that resulted from my 2009 decision to stress - test our methods against Depression - era data, not to mention the fact that concerns similar to my present ones were rather stunningly vindicated over the completion of prior market cycles.

The «out of sample» behavior of the economy at that time, compared with post-war behavior, prompted my insistence on stress - testing our methods against Depression - era data.

Intermittent fasting, regular exercise and consumption of dietary phytochemicals can have a major positive impact on health by bolster - ing adaptive cellular stress response pathways that protect against and counteract a range of major diseases.

Our difficult experience in the recent half - cycle resulted from my insistence in 2009 on stress - testing our methods against Depression - era data, because the resulting methods of classifying market return / risk profiles picked up that historical regularity.

In remarks at the AARP on Monday, Obama stressed the importance of imposing a cohesive standard mandating that all brokers and advisors working in the retirement space act in their clients» best interests to guard against conflicted advice that could harm investors.

Cohodes opined that both Equitable and Home Capital Group Inc. — the other Canadian mortgage lender he's betting against — would be unlikely to pass stress tests required by the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI).

Since 2012, the Federal Reserve has been engaged in a pre-emptive war against financial risk... pre-emptive central banking refers to monetary action in anticipation of future financial stress to avert a market crash before it starts....

Likewise, nearly all of our challenges during the advancing half - cycle since 2009 can be traced to my 2009 decision to stress - test our market return / risk classification methods against Depression - era data, which inadvertently led us to overemphasize «overvalued, overbought, overbullish» syndromes that had reliably warned of market losses in prior market cycles across history.

The ensemble methods that came out of our stress - testing efforts performed better across history than any other approach we had ever tested (including against holdout validation data), but we missed a market rebound in the interim.

«For the first time in years, interest rates are beginning to rise — making it increasingly important for Canadians looking to buy a home to stress - test their mortgage against a higher rate to ensure they can afford it over the long term,» said Martin Nel, Head, Personal Banking, BMO Bank of Montreal.

With rates low, some early signs of reflation and central banks in a stimulative mood, gold prices could be a good hedge against financial market stresses.

-- Financial institutions have actively extended loans at low interest rates, particularly to «middle - risk firms» against the backdrop of the effects of intensified lending competition under chronic stress and monetary easing.

«Families Matter» is backed by UK - based charity Families Against Stress and Trauma, which provides support to vulnerable families of individuals at risk of joining conflicts.

Against the Hegelian tendency to identify God with man and to see the doctrine of Incarnation as expressing this unity, Barth stressed with new force the transcendent otherness of God.

Against the liberal tendency to dwell upon the personality and teaching of Jesus, he stressed the sheer fact of Incarnation.

This stress on the juristic aspect of Islam is plainly a reaction against the deviating Sufis and Muslim free - thinkers whose attitude toward Muslim law had loosened the bonds of social and religious discipline.

The stress on action over against teaching (the kerygmatic tradition) and religious experience (the mystical tradition) is significant, for it ties in directly with the way of the parables.

Here's how to make the stress of the journey work for you, rather than against you.

Jesus defended his actions against his critics by stressing that God's forgiving love was available to all and that the angels of heaven rejoiced whenever a sinner repented.

Against this, Augustine stressed that the sacraments belonged to Christ and to His Church, and the piety or impiety of the administrator was irrelevant: «My origin is Christ, my root is Christ, my bead is Christ.»

In this way Wood honors the concern of the sort of position illustrated by Hough and Cobb to stress theology's public and practical character against the apparent privatizing and interiorizing of it by the position illustrated by Farley.

I have protested against confining the significance of Jesus Christ to a divine rescue expedition, but the plain testimony of two thousand years of Christianity is that Jesus Christ does rescue us in the supreme sense that through his deed, culminating on Calvary, he opens up the right road to fulfillment and provides grace — which, as Kenneth Kirk once said, is God's love in action — to enable us to walk that road, even in times of stress and even though we are quite likely to stumble and fall again and again.

Kierkegaard defends himself against the apparently Pelagian implications of this thought by stressing that even though each individual sins through his own disobedience (sin is not a category of necessity), nevertheless, in this act of disobedience he reveals his solidarity with Adam and Eve and all other persons in history, who together make up the collective human race which, in Adam, stands guilty before God.

It is, in particular, the second of evangelicalism's two tenets, i. e., Biblical authority, that sets evangelicals off from their fellow Christians.8 Over against those wanting to make tradition co-normative with Scripture; over against those wanting to update Christianity by conforming it to the current philosophical trends; over against those who view Biblical authority selectively and dissent from what they find unreasonable; over against those who would understand Biblical authority primarily in terms of its writers» religious sensitivity or their proximity to the primal originating events of the faith; over against those who would consider Biblical authority subjectively, stressing the effect on the reader, not the quality of the source — over against all these, evangelicals believe the Biblical text as written to be totally authoritative in all that it affirms.

Against Bultmann's demythologized existentialist Christ, Cullmann stressed the reality of redemption.

Forgiveness of the one who hurts or sins against us is a specific aspect that Jesus stresses.

The fact that atheists might be right and all the excuses you made for the «imperfect» priests and pastors, the money you gave, the countless Sunday mornings you sacraficed, the stress you accepted by trying to meet a deities excpectation but always falling short and the people you discriminated against due to their lack of faith in your deity is what scares the crepe out of Christians.

Over against such a view, the biblical perspective stresses the contingency of natural order, as it is dependent on the free act of creation.

Questioned about homosexuality, he stressed that the Church has fought more than any other group in Africa to stop discrimination against homosexual people, and at the same time he clearly stressed that the family is formed from a man and a woman, open to procreation and following the teaching of the Catholic Church.

Also, the idea that belief in god is a stress response is a pretty good argument against the existence of god.

So may his stress on a background of «visceral feeling» of an external world of presences against which our sensations offer a fleeting conscious foreground.

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.

Reinhold Niebuhr is less dualistic in that he stresses the relevance of love as an «impossible possibility» to every human situation, but he warns so continually against a sentimental substitution of love for the requirements of justice that the major impact of his thought is a dichotomy in which again justice, and not love, is the determining principle of social ethics.

Thus it appears that in the debate between the customary liberal view3 that stresses man's freedom in the willful breaking of known moral laws and the neo-orthodox emphasis on unconscious sin as derivative from man's basic pride, anxiety, and rebellion against God, the truth may lie between.

Furthermore, in its stress on pride and rebellion against God as basic to the meaning of sin, it does not always give sufficiently concrete moral guidance as to how a Christian should conduct himself with relation to his fellow men.

But the main stress in the sacrament is found not so much in that kind of talk (which may be appropriate enough for an adult) but in the simple words with which the minister of baptism signs the baptized person with the sign of the cross as he or she is «received into the congregation of Christ's flock»: that «hereafter he [or she] shall not be ashamed to confess the faith of Christ crucified, and manfully to fight under his banner, against sin, the world, and the devil, and to continue Christ's faithful soldier and servant unto his [her] life's end.»

These people, along with the pietists of later times, stressed personal faith and experience over against a sacramental and liturgical view of the church.

At the other, in protest against the self - righteous «perfectionism» thus implied, is the current neo-orthodox tendency to stress the continuance of sin in the most saintly Christians, with reluctance to grant any significant moral achievement as the result of redemption lest it savor of human presumption.