Sentences with phrase «as blindness in»

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Still to refer to a $ 500,000 doller home as «cheap» shows the blindness in your idea of average income being 6 figures and reality of most average incomes being mid 5 figure range or lower.

In his historical blindness and moral excitability, today's same - sex marriage advocate resembles no one so much as the temperance woman who, one century ago, encouraged a social change contrary to good sense and human nature.

This primary season is revealing an astounding blindness in the members of our ruling class, both Right and Left, as well as a remarkable lack of self - criticism.

Nevertheless, despite the blindness of his interpreters, Whitehead's own vision of causal immanence remains as lure for feeling, elaborated in a score of ways, and challenging our habitual assumption that one actual entity can not be literally, ontologically ingredient in another.

Only in the final scene does she discover that this pitiful, disheveled tramp was her benefactor, when she touches his arm and face once again, as in her blindness, and in that moment of revelation whispers, «You!»

Sympathetic as I am to hippies, I fear that, because of their blindness as to both their true situation and significance and their relation to this world's society, they are in great danger of becoming a society of violence.

«In more recent times, this opinion has found support from the fact that sight impediment - including temporary blindness lasting from several hours to several days - has been observed as being a symptom or result of an epileptic seizure and has been mentioned in many case reports.&raquIn more recent times, this opinion has found support from the fact that sight impediment - including temporary blindness lasting from several hours to several days - has been observed as being a symptom or result of an epileptic seizure and has been mentioned in many case reports.&raquin many case reports.»

But if I learned anything that year it was that there is no such thing as color - blindness in this society and that the dividing line I had temporarily crossed is not easily erased.

He feels that «to practice blindness in advance seems as wrong... as to extinguish a lagging, yet still beating heart.

The willful blindness Eberstadt condemns in liberationists and Marxist professors, therefore, is not so bad as that of the pro-life journals.

He concludes that more attention to the Bible did not necessarily mean more virtuous action; that personal engagement with the Bible did result in self - sacrificing service, but also in divisive hubris, mistaken interpretations (such as the identification of America with ancient Israel), and blindness to social evils; and that Protestant spiritual individualism undercut corrupt hierarchies and supported democracy, but also promoted political excesses and violent anti-Catholicism.

Again, the very frank admissions of weakness or stupidity or lack of faith or downright blindness and disloyalty on the part of the disciples are sometimes explained as due to Peter's lifelong penitent self - accusation: he could not recall incidents from the life of his Master without breaking into tears once more, as once he did outside the high priest's house in Jerusalem.

In my humble opinion religion as we have it in front of us feeds such a blindnesIn my humble opinion religion as we have it in front of us feeds such a blindnesin front of us feeds such a blindness.

(Acts 3:17) But this ignorance was in part at least the result of a mysterious blindness that had come upon them as a judgment for their sins, their initial unresponsiveness mounting eventually to active hatred and a «blind» fury of malice by which they attributed everything he said or did to the inspiration of Beelzebul, the chief of devils.

As the delusional fellow tries to learn why he's surrounded by phony doubles of everyone once familiar to him, and while his sister and a therapist try to help him see reality, readers find themselves sliding into the baffling blindness that affects everyone in the story and keeps them from ever seeing or knowing the truth of their own lives, much less anyone else's.

Yet it is crucial to remember that in Romans Paul views both sin an human blindness toward God as that from which we are being delivered.

This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart; who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness (Ephesians 4:17 - 19).

So mired in white blindness, so lost in the liberal orthodoxy that counts mere dissociation from racism as virtue, and so addicted to the easy moral esteem that comes to her from dissociation, Dowd plays the oldest race cards of all - I'm white and you're black, so shut up and be grateful for my magnanimity.

Since this «humility before fact» in the framework of a speculative system is distorted and endangered by the selectivity of the system, since that which is regarded as a fact varies with the systematic context, there is to add, in view of the correction of the speculative system: «The ultimate test is always widespread, recurrent experience; and the more general the rationalistic scheme [namely, and thus precisely, not only more effective, but also more forcefully endangered by «professional blindness»], the more important is this final appeal» (PR 17/25).

Some have suggested that real color - blindness requires racial intermarriage almost as the national norm, but that doesn't seem to be in the offing.

Secondly, the lead for the one story describes Golden Rice as «a new strain that boosts vitamin A levels and reduces blindness in developing countries.»

The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and national rice research institutes in Bangladesh and the Philippines have joined with Helen Keller International (HKI), a leading global health organization that reduces blindness and prevents malnutrition worldwide, in a new effort to further develop and evaluate Golden Rice as a potential tool to reduce vitamin A deficiency.

Vitamin A deficiency can result in visual or ocular malfunctions such as night blindness and xerophthalmia (1) and can reduce immune responsiveness (2), which can result in an increased incidence or severity of respiratory infections, gastrointestinal infections (3), and measles (4).

It's the leading infectious cause of corneal blindness in the U.S., so get treatment as soon as possible.

The complete blindness that you demonstrate to these two issues just makes me think that you are more interested in finding evidence that supports homebirth as a choice than in actually improving outcomes for woman and children during childbirth.

Ensuring people diagnosed with diabetes are able to manage their diabetes effectively in order to reduce their risk of developing long term complications such as heart disease, stroke, kidney failure, blindness and amputation should also be the long term goal of the health service.

As a follow - up question, where does «equal treatment and dignity» (as used by Kennedy in the Supreme Court article) differ from «equal opportunity» (as it stands for color - blindness being the only way to reconcile some of the horrible truths of our history) aside from apparently in practicAs a follow - up question, where does «equal treatment and dignity» (as used by Kennedy in the Supreme Court article) differ from «equal opportunity» (as it stands for color - blindness being the only way to reconcile some of the horrible truths of our history) aside from apparently in practicas used by Kennedy in the Supreme Court article) differ from «equal opportunity» (as it stands for color - blindness being the only way to reconcile some of the horrible truths of our history) aside from apparently in practicas it stands for color - blindness being the only way to reconcile some of the horrible truths of our history) aside from apparently in practice?

If one has vision how is it possible to understand how blindness affects a person, the only thing we can do is be sensitive as we are suppose to be to everyone and expect the same in return.

This approach could soon be taken with rods and cones, the light - sensitive cells in eyes that can wither as we age, causing blindness.

«Stahgahdt's» — as he says it — is one of the two types of degenerative blindness his company is targeting in its clinical trials.

Though this research focused on the form of the disease called Leber congenital amaurosis 2, or LCA2, the scientists and engineers involved in the study believe the technology holds promise for other forms of LCA as well as other inherited diseases that lead to severe vision loss or blindness.

This is advantageous, since dogs provide new models to investigate the disease mechanisms and to plan new therapies such as gene therapy, successfully applied to blindness in dogs and human previously,» explains Lohi.

Problems resulting from these deficiencies — such as blindness, anemia and death, particularly among children and women — are a major public health challenge,» said Dr. Saurabh Mehta, associate professor of global health, epidemiology and nutrition in the Division of Nutritional Sciences, and a senior author on this new research.

Accurately detecting a rare, but devastating cause of blindness in premature babies can be done as effectively with telemedicine as with traditional, in - person eye exams, a study published in JAMA Ophthalmology suggests.

On Monday, the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to William Campbell of Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, and AAAS member Satoshi Ōmura of Kitasato University in Tokyo, who will share half the prize for discovering the drug avermectin, which has been used to treat river blindness and lymphatic filariasis as well as other parasitic diseases.

Two years ago, a French group found that mutations in the human version are associated with Usher syndrome type 1B, a condition that accounts for 4 % to 10 % of all cases of inherited deafness, but is associated with blindness as well.

In his essay on Morton, he urged scientists to scrutinize one another's work and «cultivate, as Morton did, the habit of presenting candidly all our information and procedure, so that others can assess what we, in our blindness, can not.&raquIn his essay on Morton, he urged scientists to scrutinize one another's work and «cultivate, as Morton did, the habit of presenting candidly all our information and procedure, so that others can assess what we, in our blindness, can not.&raquin our blindness, can not.»

As a number of neuroimaging studies show, the early onset of permanent blindness alters the response of the neurons of the visual cortex and causes a cortical compensatory re-organization in the occipital lobe.

AAV1 is considered safe as a viral vector and is already in use in human gene therapy trials for blindness, heart disease, muscular dystrophy and other conditions.

In a recent set of experiments, psychologist Nilli Lavie of University College London found that this bit of gray matter holds the key to the phenomenon known as change blindness, in which people overlook the obvious when their attention is challengeIn a recent set of experiments, psychologist Nilli Lavie of University College London found that this bit of gray matter holds the key to the phenomenon known as change blindness, in which people overlook the obvious when their attention is challengein which people overlook the obvious when their attention is challenged.

Inherited retinal diseases are among the leading causes of incurable blindness in humans as well as in dogs, where most of these conditions are classified as progressive retinal atrophy (PRA).

Spark Therapeutics hopes to win U.S. approval in January 2018 for a gene therapy to cure a rare inherited form of blindness, while Novartis could get a U.S. go - ahead as early as next month for its gene - modified cell therapy against leukaemia - a variation on standard gene therapy.

In healthy individuals HCMV establishes lifelong latency, but in immunocompromised patients, viral reactivation can lead to severe clinical symptoms, such as disseminated viral infection, blindness and potentially canceIn healthy individuals HCMV establishes lifelong latency, but in immunocompromised patients, viral reactivation can lead to severe clinical symptoms, such as disseminated viral infection, blindness and potentially cancein immunocompromised patients, viral reactivation can lead to severe clinical symptoms, such as disseminated viral infection, blindness and potentially cancer.

(Damage to the MT causes motion blindness, in which moving objects look like a succession of static objects — as if lit by a strobe light.)

Researchers from Massachusetts Eye and Ear have, for the first time, identified rapidly proliferating cells (known as «neural crest - derived progenitor cells») in the corneal endothelium of specimens from normal corneas and from corneas with Fuchs» Endothelial Corneal Dystrophy (FECD), a condition in which the cells responsible for keeping the cornea clear die prematurely — often leading to blindness.

Many diseases that lead to blindness, such as glaucoma and macular degeneration, are caused by the death of certain cells in the human retina that lack the ability to regenerate.

Researchers report that kittens with the disorder, a visual impairment medically known as amblyopia that leads to poor sight or blindness in one eye, can completely recover their vision by simply spending 10 days in total darkness.

At issue is gene therapy for a rare form of inherited blindness known as Leber's congenital amaurosis (LCA) that results in complete vision loss by about age 40.

Researchers refer to the gorilla effect as «inattentional blindness» or «change blindness,» which in turn is part of a more general principle at work in our visual system.

In the case of vision impairment, which can include blindness, early medical attention such as topical medication and steroids can frequently prevent vision loss.