Sentences with phrase «edged sword»
«Perfectionism is a double - edged sword, because it works; in one way it keeps you motivated and makes you want to work hard, but then it blocks and inhibits you on the other side of it because it feels like this pressure to be perfect.»
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Going through all the pain and draining your muscles to their last drop of fuel is a double - edged sword.
But in turn this double - edged sword, cuts us off from connection to the now and lets thoughts run amok worrying about what others thought of us or will think of us.
The immune supporting benefits are much more studied, though again, this can be a double - edged sword for those with autoimmune disease.
Applying foundation can feel like a double - edged sword for those with blemish - prone skin: You want to conceal redness and old acne scars, but also don't want to put anything on your face that could cause existing breakouts to flare up (or worse, trigger a new crop of pimples).
Getting into the fitness industry can be a double - edged sword.
However, this can be a double - edged sword.
The Campisi group pioneered the idea that the senescence response is a double - edged sword: it protects us from cancer early in life, but can promote aging and age - related disease late in life.
The tumor suppressor p53 connects ribosome biogenesis to cell cycle control: a double - edged sword.
This may sound great, but it is potentially a double - edged sword, because once done it can't be reversed, so if something goes wrong, it could have long - lasting effects.
While it was first considered to be a promising treatment for the infection, CRISPR is now seen as a double - edged sword.
Lifesaving treatments for childhood brain tumors are a double - edged sword.
Vianello F, Dazzi F. Mesenchymal stem cells for graft - versus - host disease: a double edged sword?
Review: Autophagy during viral infection — a double - edged sword — Younho Choi — Nature Reviews Microbiology
By contrast, this process is a «double - edged sword» in patients who are autoimmune - prone.
However, for GVHD, the use of MSCs is a double - edged sword, because the prevention of GVHD was associated with a high incidence of leukaemia relapse, which is the result of the non-specific immunosuppressive effect of MSCs on graft - versus - leukaemia 57, 58.
«But this activation is a double - edged sword, in that this very activation can destabilize them.
And that decline in hunting after the fall of the Soviet Union has proven to be a double - edged sword.
They also found this higher - than - expected fluidity to be a double - edged sword — while it demonstrates relatively widespread opportunity for top - level income, it also creates a very real insecurity among those who reach those heights.
«It's sort of a double - edged sword,» Gammill says.
«Structured, rule - bound fairness, known as procedural justice, is a double - edged sword for managers,» said Johnson, assistant professor of management.
Well, that can be a double - edged sword.
«It's a double - edged sword,» says Julian Newman, a senior campaigner with the London - based Environmental Investigation Agency, which has tracked the ivory trade extensively.
This shows that CSR investments can be a double - edged sword — do well and they'll buffer you from dismissal, do poorly and you're more likely lose your job.»
«So in muscular dystrophy, there is definitely a benefit, but it's a double - edged sword with all the side effects.»
As Mayor points out, biochemical weapons are the ultimate double - edged sword.
Ceramides can act as a double - edged sword, says lead author Jack Arbiser, MD, PhD, professor of dermatology at Emory University School of Medicine.
This is the double - edged sword recently explored in PLOS» Ecological Impacts of Climate Change Collection, a compendium of articles and blog posts in which this slideshow originally appeared.
«Estrogen appears to be a double - edged sword — on one side, protecting women from disease, on the other, potentially causing it,» said Wael Jarjour, MD, director of The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center's division of rheumatology and immunology.
«It's very much a double - edged sword.
«It's like a double - edged sword,» Bais says.
Calcium is something of a double - edged sword.
«Cancer treatment as a double - edged sword.»
Pesticides are a double - edged sword: They make farming more productive, but they can harm wildlife and people if not used properly.
In fact, it reveals that the immune system functions as a double - edged sword.
«History is a two - edged sword,» said Dezső, the study's lead author and a Fulbright Fellow at Carnegie Mellon when the research was conducted.
So they have set their sights higher, on the forested portions of the mountains, where fire acts as a double - edged sword.
Thus, iPS cells are a double - edged sword — their great promise is tempered by risk.
«It's kind of a double - edged sword.
But whatever the motivation, the essay remains a double - edged sword.
Mann words it more strongly: «It's a double - edged sword, and we're about to see the other edge of that sword.»
«Personalized banner ads are a double - edged sword.»
«Nanoparticles hold promise as double - edged sword against genital herpes.»
Scientists face a double - edged sword between life and death.
However, the knowledge gained is sometimes a double - edged sword.
They found that mixed reviews are a double - edged sword that can either hurt or help product sales, depending on critic reviews and other signifiers of quality that the retailer may promote.
For the environment, nanotechnology may be a double - edged sword.
Combining expertise from multiple disciplines may be cutting edge, says Barrett, but it's a double - edged sword.
CANNABIS is a double - edged sword: by dampening the immune system, it provides relief from inflammatory diseases, but this also increase the risk of infections.
«Increased leaf abundance is a double - edged sword.»