Sentences with phrase «diminished capacities»

When the liver is functioning with diminished capacities it can reflect negatively on a whole range of different organs.

Geithner, who served under President Barack Obama as secretary of the treasury as the U.S. struggled to rebound from the global financial crisis, said the current political climate could lead to a «diminished capacity to make sensible economic choices.»

Slighted kids may challenge the will, he said, alleging you had diminished capacity to make that gift, or that the sibling with the bigger share exerted undue influence.

This person will be someone that the investment professional can talk to if there are concerns of financial exploitation or diminished capacity.

Wow, I just love where it says,»... analytical thinking may «diminish the capacity for optimism and positive self - illusions that typify good mental health» LOL!

When considering the person who has committed a crime under the influence of alcohol, Aristotle does not allow a «diminished capacity» defense.

It is also the only way to avert the execution of persons who did commit the crime in question, but did so under circumstances of mitigation or diminished capacity such that capital punishment would not normally have been imposed had the circumstances been more fully understood.

Except in cases of severely diminished capacity, the perpetrator of murder still forfeits any personal claim on life, even though society may add an injustice of its own by being inconsistent with a normally more lenient treatment of similar circumstances.

This virus has the effect of diminishing the capacity of the body to fight off infections.

Hey young people again, boyhowdy's incorrect response shows just how diminished your capacity for critical thought and success in life will be if you devolve into something like a boyhowdy — on the wrong side of the future.

* psychic numbing as a diminished capacity for feeling death quilt felt by survivors death imprint as heightened vulnerability fascination with scenes of death a turning inward of anger in death / disaster renewal emerging from awareness of threats

Based on previous studies cited by these researchers, analytical thinking may «diminish the capacity for optimism and positive self - illusions that typify good mental health.»

Christians may read this as a sign of our society's diminishing capacity for incarnate hospitality.

The mechanisms of critique destroy piety and in so doing diminish our capacity to love and obey truth once found.

Religion distracts people, it sedates the brain and diminishs its capacity to think original thoughts and it keeps intuition from engaging and pushing back against the lies, the abuse, the harm and the evil we allow those who perpetrate the deception to inflict on us.

There is no intrinsic reason why this diminishing capacity should not extend indefinitely, to the simplest physical existents.

To the extent that the crime can be understood as a culmination of an extremist world view, then the perpetrator would be criminally responsible; to the extent that the criminal behavior was a product of a mental illness, he might be eligible for a defense of diminished capacity or not guilty by reason of insanity.

As I have worked with children over the years, I have seen the diminished capacity for true play and a loss of the sense of wonder in their world as children are groomed to be consumers rather than citizens.

Moreover, since having smoked during a pregnancy diminishes the capacities of infants to arouse to protect their breathing, smoking mothers should have their infants sleep alongside them on a different surface but not in the same bed.

The measure would end «gay panic» and «tans panic» defenses based on a defense theory of a provocation, diminished capacity because of insanity due to knowledge or disclosure of sexual orientation or a theory of self - defense due to the discovery, knowledge or disclosure of a person's sexual orientation or gender idnetity.

KOZ, I think your comment about «diminished capacity» was meant to refer to the GOP's House delegation, or perhaps to John «It's the Generals» fault!»

Just as diabetes is a disorder of the pancreas, mental illnesses are medical conditions that often result in a diminished capacity for coping with the ordinary demands of life.

Mental Illness Across the Ages: From Children, to Adolescents, to Middle Aged and the Elderly [September 30, 2015] Mental illness is a brain disorder that often results in a diminished capacity for coping with the ordinary demands of life.

If the creature had «diminished capacity,» Frankenstein promised to bring in a third party to act in its interest and treat «the being» in accordance with recognized standards.

In the study, the gut microbiota of the animals that were fed a diet rich in sugar and fat have a diminished capacity to communicate with host cells.

Higher vertebrates like mammals generally have a diminished capacity for tissue regeneration compared with lower vertebrates like fish and salamanders.

The field of Dynamic Eating Psychology teaches us that harried eating diminishes our capacity to listen to our body's cues for fullness and satiety.

«There's a popular meme in the Paleo community that says eating a very low - carb diet leads to a diminished capacity for T4 to be converted into T3 thyroid hormone because of the lack of glucose consumed by low - carb dieters.

If we did not adjust our eating habits to accommodate our diminished capacity for digestion, it is probable that we accumulated ama (impurities) during June, July and August.

Dr. Nicklas asked if recommendations took into account the diminished capacity of the elderly to absorb vitamins and minerals.

If you jump in with both feet (and no pants) too soon, you run the risk of experiencing her charms in the diminished capacity of a rebound fling, which is not fair to her or to you.

That doesn't please the company's board, who enlist psychiatrist Dr. Eric Price (Jason Clarke) to attest to her diminished capacity.

«Ex Machina» Just when we thought M. Night Shyamalan ruined the plot twist forever, along comes the directorial debut of screenwriter Alex Garland, which not only pulls the rug out from under us over and over again (without cheating or making us lose interest) but also has interesting things to say about technology (as embodied by Alicia Vikander «s artificially intelligent robot) and mankind's diminishing capacity to control it.

She also produced the Sundance Film Festival films Lonesome Jim, Dedication, Diminished Capacity, Birds of America, and Hurricane.

Was's documentary is focused primarily on Brian's mindset both currently in his diminished capacity and in his recollection of his glory days pre-breakdown in the mid-Sixties.

Of course, as film academic, my viewing still remains substantial (even in the diminished capacity), yet I was proud to realise that the addictive tendencies are gone.

Ironically, the expansion of student legal rights, rather than enhancing youth outcomes, has increased the extent to which schools have relied on authoritarian measures, decreased the moral authority of educators, and diminished the capacity of schools to socialize young people effectively.

And this was driven by diminishing capacity on our part, to be honest.

Yet it does not address the diminishing capacity for Local Authorities to oversee the performance of maintained schools.

Opting for the hybrid model doesn't diminish capacity.

Many people feel that the e-reader industry as a whole has lost most of its innovative spirit, the vast majority of companies that were around from 2007 to 2011 do not exist or function in a very diminished capacity.

Even with diminishing capacities, Felix found ways to give his life in a retirement community purpose by helping fellow residents, mentoring younger doctors and caring for his wife.

It would make the back catalog worthless because unless you offer to cut your asking price dramatically, the «used» digital version would outsell even the altered versions... plus that writers would have to continuously focus on adding material to older works, would diminish their capacity for creating new work.

It's their diminished capacity to save that worries the couple most.

Was hoping to salvage it even if only in a diminished capacity.

Toxins can attack the valves of the heart, diminishing their capacity and increasing the likelihood of cardiac failure.

Nintendo has never made and will likely never make an M - rated game, which means the Wii will always need third - party support in order to draw, in however diminished a capacity, gamers looking for more mature fare, a fact that Nintendo of America boss Reggie Fils - Aime readily admits.

The Koopa Suit makes for a great risk vs reward power - up, and the ability to retain an item returns (though in a diminished capacity) from SMB3.

The tour - de-force lineup promises to prove that the 67 - year - old art rebel's venerable status has in no way diminished his capacity to shock — as he did in Hong Kong recently, where his inflatable feces sculpture Complex Pile first scandalized sensibilities with its provocative subject matter, and then was mourned when the piece was destroyed in a sudden rainstorm.

However, when that sink begins to become less effective, the percent falls, and the diminished capacity to absorb our carbon emissions would be counted as a feedback.