Sentences with phrase «diminished life»

This is a costly error, for the person with unrecognized post-traumatic stress disorder is condemned to a diminished life, tormented by memory and bounded by helplessness and fear.

Upon conversion, the premium usually rises substantially to reflect the insured's age and diminished life expectancy.

They involve severe injuries that result in permanent disability, prolonged medical issues or a significantly diminished life expectancy.

Outdoor cats have a tremendously diminished life expectancy; some statistics suggest that, on average, free - roaming outdoor cats live less than 5 years as compared to the 12 — 15 (and even 18 — 20) years enjoyed by indoor - only cats.

Greatest hope: Heart disease is the leading cause of death for adults in the U.S., and millions more survive a heart attack only to live a diminished life because their heart was damaged.

New research presented today at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) identifies nicotine dependence, obesity, alcohol abuse and depressive disorders as risk factors for low back pain, a common condition causing disability, missed work, high medical costs and diminished life quality.

This is despite the fact that having to do non-meaningful work harms a person — including poor health outcomes, frustrated human capabilities, diminished life chances, or even the absence of a sense that life is worth living.

As for the severely disabled who need constant everything to live and most of which will have a much diminished life expectancy (if only a few years or less), we should spoil the shit out of those kids.

I am very grateful that I still have a life... Even a Diminished life, is still a life that is not to be squandered.

When the erosions of age begin to leave their mark on my body, and still more on my mind; when the ills that must diminish my life or put an end to it strike me down from without or grow up from within me; when I reach that painful moment at which I suddenly realize that I am a sick man or that I am growing old; above all at that final moment when I feel I am losing hold on myself and becoming wholly passive in the hands of those great unknown forces which first formed me: at all these sombre moments grant me, Lord, to understand that it is you (provided my faith is strong enough) who are painfully separating the fibres of my being so as to penetrate to the very marrow of my substance and draw me into yourself

The real issue in the use / misuse of a given drug is, «How much and under what circumstances does its use enhance or diminish the life of the user and his relationships?»

White predicted with chilling accuracy the way the proliferation of information via television can diminish our lives rather than enrich them.

«Inactivity may diminish life expectancy not only by predisposing to aging - related diseases but also because it may influence the aging process itself.»

The only way to get the best out of the diminishing life is to invest it into the fulfilment of your purpose.

Abbas's troubling tableau draws our attention to the ways in which those unable or unwilling to deal with the complexities in modern society disappear into diminished lives.

Moore was also an example of how the disease often radicalized an artist and his work, to the extent that he helped found Visual AIDS, the artist's arm of ACT - UP, and conflated his own diminishing life with ecological themes of the degraded landscape.

For me the other key consideration, apart from the hypothesis above that the world will be forced onto the zero - carbon track by near - future climate pain, is that we do not currently know how to do that without a diminished living standard.

Repetitive sexual acting - out can significantly diminish your life.

The statistics of infant and perinatal mortality are our babies and children who die in our arms... The statistics of shortened life expectancy are our mothers and fathers, uncles, aunties and elders who live diminished lives and die before their gifts of knowledge and experience are passed on.

This will diminish the life of your bedding, which can last upwards of ten years if cared for properly.

Not exact matches

But we demean and diminish the standouts and the ones who will really make a difference in our lives when we insist on lumping them with the rest of the mediocre pack while pretending that the world doesn't care about outcomes.

«People who live at least another few decades will likely be affected by diminished funding of Social Security, and also the economic impacts that impact the broader economy, including rising interest rates and inflation,» Hamrick said.

When I notice this happening in my own life, I gently remind myself about the law of diminishing marginal returns.

Those numbers were far diminished from what the show drew in its heyday, but they remain respectable by contemporary standards, with delayed viewing and increased competition applying downward pressure on live ratings across television.

For people pursuing a fast life strategy like that embodied by the Dark Triad traits, it's better to occupy and exploit a low light environment where others are sleeping and have diminished cognitive functioning.»

But if you don't take time away to enjoy life, and you're always just saving and running on the hamster wheel to try to get ahead, eventually you're going to have a phenomenon called diminishing marginal productivity.

(The bulk of that was due to indirect costs such as lost wages and survivors» diminished quality of life.)

But, as money and weight can quickly compound and double — the emotional and mental burden of these negative thoughts can lead to similar compounding effects which will diminish the quality of your self - worth and life.

In 1998, a distinguished committee led by Princeton University's Shirley Tilghman warned that too many early - career life scientists faced diminishing and discouraging professional prospects.

Usually, investors taken in this sort of scam count their losses and walk away, often to a diminished standard of living from what they had planned.

Less - educated males of recent cohorts are likely to face diminished employment and earnings opportunities and other attendant maladies, including poorer health, high probability of incarceration, and generally lower life satisfaction.»

It was analytically inadequate, making an analogy between Portnoy, a fictional fetishist and pervert, and Weinstein, a real - life sociopath, a comparison that had the effect of underplaying Weinstein's crimes and diminishing real women's suffering.

Environmental degradation diminishes the quality of life for all of us.

Failure to achieve the necessary growth rate tends to diminish global quality of life, the focus so prevalent in our writing over the years.

But in fact a whole generation of young adults is likely to see its life chances permanently diminished by this recession.

A combination of a lost decade and having to sell equities at low prices in order to live can diminish your portfolio — to the point where it won't recover even when the salad days return.

Since you are steadily receiving dividend income — through thick and thin — during the course of your investing life, your need to sell stocks at the bottom is greatly diminished.

So our choosing this way or that way of living is still our free choice and thus is not diminishing His power in the least.

It is home to millions of living beings and your arrogance does not diminish their value.

Had he, in some sense, been diminished as a human being at the end of his life?

We're not shocked at each other's inability to live up to a Christian standard and we don't reinforce that failure diminishes God's acceptance of us.

Such subordinate nexuses possess a diminished degree of mental spontaneity as compared to the dominant living person.

But its authority over our lives can diminish.

That Christ may enter deeply into us we need alternatively the work that dilates the heart and the sorrow that brings death to it, the life that enlarges a man in order that he may be sanctifiable and the death that diminishes him in order that he may be sanctified.

Faith does not diminish the necessity for the analogia entis, but neither does the beatific vision, which, even though it is the endpoint «intrinsic to the spiritual life,» still functions as «a defining end as far beyond every proportion as God in Himself is beyond the creation.»

That is why economic problems do not diminish as the standard of living rises.

The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations.

Those who use contraception diminish their power to unite and they give up the opportunity to co-operate with God in the creation of life.

Reflecting on her experiences as a therapist, Horney observed that the most powerful forms of anger and guilt that she had encountered were the anger and guilt of unlived life — i.e., of diminished growth.

To the extent that these details are lost in large - scale theoretical constructions, the relevance to the actual life of faith that practical theology seeks is diminished.