Sentences with phrase «frailty which»

It may cause weakness and frailty which may result in pain and broken bones as you get older.

«It is a human frailty which we all possess in some degree that becomes the investor's and speculator's greatest enemy and will eventually, if not safeguarded, bring about his downfall.

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The loving toward even the most vile is as a social justification upon one's own subversive means which are compensatory in natured families that stick with each other's common frailties underpinnings.

But here, too, there is little that is actually new, although there is detail that confirms what shrewder observers of Vatican life pieced together after the events of early 2013: that Benedict XVI's poorly - planned 2012 visit to Mexico and Cuba convinced him that he could no longer travel; that he believed the Pope must be present at World Youth Day 2013 in Brazil, a conviction that became the terminus ad quem driving the timing of the abdication and what immediately preceded it; and that, contrary to speculations that have become more lurid over time, Benedict's concern about his increasingly frailty, which fuelled his concern that he would be increasingly unable to give the Church what she deserved from a pope, was the sole motive behind his decision to renounce the Oice of Peter — not Vatileaks, not concerns about financial and other corruptions inside the Leonine Wall, not blackmail.

God doesn't create us in sin; He creates us in the curse, that is, frail and human and (in Pauline terms) «of the flesh» (cf. Rom 7 - 8) but we then act on this frailty and break God's holy law, which, once again, renders us sinful.

If you, my listener, should see such a man, although it is unlikely, for without a doubt weakness and mediocrity are the more common, if you should meet him in what he himself would call a weak moment, but which, alas, you would have to call a better moment; if you should meet him when he had found no rest in the desert, when the giddiness passes away for a moment and he feels an agonizing longing for the Good; if you should meet him when, shaken in his innermost being, and not without sadness, he was thinking of that man of single purpose who even in all his frailty still wills the Good: then you would discover that he had two wills, and you would discover his painful double - mindedness.

At best it has been regarded as a reluctant concession to human sin and frailty, a painful reminder of our failure to fulfill the exalted standards which God holds for marriage.

«Drugs, as well as pornography and other forms of consumerism which exploit the frailty of the weak, tend to fill the resulting spiritual void».

For so it is with men in this world: first a man sins from frailty and weakness; and then — yes, then perhaps he learns to flee to God and to be helped by faith which saves from all sin; but of this we are not talking here — then he despairs over his weakness and becomes, either a Pharisee who in despair manages to attain a certain legal righteousness, or he despairs and plunges again into sin.

Books like Bunyan's autobiographical Grace Abounding or Augustine's Confessions are full of reversals, which indeed provide evidence of human frailty and thus bolster the narrative.

the possibility and necessity of living in a dimension of meaning in which the urgencies of the struggle are subordinated to a sense of awe before the vastness of the historical drama in which we are jointly involved; to a sense of modesty about the virtue, wisdom, and power available to us for the resolution of its perplexities; to a sense of contrition about the common human frailties and foibles which lie at the foundation of... our vanities; and to a sense of gratitude for the divine mercies which are promised to those who humble themselves.

They have offered a vision that solves the problem of boredom; that solves the problem of our life in community with others and overcomes the pathologies of so - called civilized life, which finds us at each other's throats as often as not; that solves the problem of our body and our personhood, positing a body that is the one we have always known but finally glorified and without its frailties and decay; and that solves the problem of satisfying those infinite desires that nothing now on earth can fulfill.

But I am also aware of a wild kind of hope which begins with limits and frailties but which reaches beyond them, beyond the signal box and the Pennine valley and out into the darkness.

Of this [appointed order of things transitory] the beauty does not strike us, because by our mortal frailty we are so involved in a part of it, that we can not perceive the whole, in which these fragments that offend us are harmonized with the most accurate fitness and beauty.

Then both the world and all time around them are swallowed up; through the transitory human frailty shines the eternal, before which all humanity and human accomplishments are futile.

Cant even pass it anymore which used to get us out of defensive frailties.

Those of us who remember it will recall that back then we were already firmly established as «the eternal top 4 club», which lost out in the direct matches against other top clubs, mainly because of tactical naivety and mental frailty.

Does it mean we are going back to our old system which honestly I am skeptical about given our defensive frailties.

Monday's YouGov for the Standard will determine london media momentum in the run up to Thursday... Livingstone all over the media doing his Hillary tearful human frailty act... We are starting from a huge huge base in the locals, most of which take place in labour heartlands... And we always **** up bye - elections.

Unencumbered by human frailties, Curiosity — like the rovers Spirit and Opportunity, which survived on the Red Planet years longer than expected — will be free to hunt for E.T. «If we find evidence for life on Mars, boy, are we just gonna go wild with speculation about how common it is in the universe,» says Lou Friedman, a former scientist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena and cofounder, with Carl Sagan, of the Planetary Society.

«This might be because eye care also involves lifestyle choices — it's available on the high street without the need to see a GP and onward referral to an audiologist in hospital, which emphasises illness and frailty.»

If the findings translate to humans, this restoration of muscle mass could help to combat some of the effects of age - related frailty, which often lead to osteoporosis and other debilitating conditions.

Robots are resistant to these human frailties, which is why they're perfect for scrutinizing the patch of Arkansas swamp where an ivory - billed woodpecker — a bird scientists thought had been extinct for decades — may have been spotted in 2005.

«What makes our findings significant is that these autoantibodies, which are a good predictor of frailty, are also a known mechanism for promoting chronic inflammation, which underlies a number of diseases and pathologies, especially aging - related conditions,» says Fedarko.

Measuring and developing strategies to improve immune dysfunction which occurs in patients suffering from cancer, cancer survivors, recurrent infections, chronic diseases such as Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, stroke, scleroderma and other autoimmune and chronic illnesses as well as disorders associated with aging and frailty.

To explore the possibility that frailty (which is associated with both low cholesterol and death28 29) could confound these results, we did a sensitivity analysis adjusting our Cox models (table 4 ⇑) for two known markers of frailty (changes in body weight and changes in systolic blood pressure).28 29 30 These adjustments did not materially change the effect estimates, which remained significant in both groups.

Bisphosphonates such as Fosamax and Boniva inhibit normal remodeling of bone, which results in unhealthy, brittle bone and can result in osteonecrosis.Decreased bone density is of great concern as one of the leading causes of frailty among aging women and men.

Although he is mostly known as an actor, Paxton has apparently not lost any of the skills which may have lain dormant for over 15 years by the looks of his first big screen directorial stint, Frailty.

As Enid, Birch gives a performance of fearless, peerless candour; despite her unflagging bitterness towards anything phoney (which makes Enid, like Holden Caulfield before her, a bit of a phoney herself), Birch shows the character compassion, charging every angry barb with human frailty.

Although Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story claims to be a spoof of biopics and their extreme depictions of artists — especially musicians — biopics» exaggerations are a reflection of the frailties and eccentricities of the artists which they profile, so it's hard to distinguish a satire about biopics from a satire about musicians.

Effectively remaking his earlier 1940s - set romp The Rocketeer, Joe Johnston directs Captain America not as a brooding exploration of human frailty, as today's superhero movies tend to be, but as a ripping yarn, one which has its share of funny lines, but without any irony to undermine the Boy's Own heroics.

Fritz Lang's 1921 silent Weimar masterpiece Der Müde Tod («Destiny») was also re-released, exploring love, death and human frailty a century ago, grand themes which still preoccupy the filmmakers on my list today.

Wes Anderson «s «Moonrise Kingdom» seems like an odd choice to open the 65th Cannes Film Festival, with its deadpan Americanism, retro - set timeline and movie - star cast; at the same time, Anderson is clearly influenced by the New Wave, both cinematically and personally, he's a distinctive authorial voice as a director (which is the essence of auteur theory) and while his films are defined by near - silent moments of comedy and human frailty, there's also something mournful and wounded about them.

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story Year: 2007 Director: Jake Kasdan Although Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story claims to be a spoof of biopics and their extreme depictions of artists — especially musicians — biopics» exaggerations are a reflection of the frailties and eccentricities of the artists which they profile, so it's hard to distinguish a satire about biopics from a satire about musicians.

The sister we spent all that time with, defending her sister from the stepmother's abuse, killed the sister she loved so much - which we find out in some Sixth Sense / Frailty bullshit twist.

Intentionally or not, this small - town thriller with corrupt cops and abusive family themes has Frailty vibes (which was directed by Paxton) and more recently reminiscent of Cop Car.

The seats are comfortable enough for a light hatch and the driving position (tilt and reach steering adjustment is now standard across the range), if not perfect, is acceptable for most people except the very tall — a frailty for which it can be partly forgiven considering its aspirations.

Frailty will help with vulnerability contribution which tends to be more valuable in longer fights, but it is important to keep in mind that for short fights where vulnerability is already capped and easily maintained, this sigil does nothing.

The drawings describe the frailties of the printed page, which mirror the fleetingness of life itself.

issues of sexual communication, dysfunction + human frailty are imbedded in her work; themes which are explored + executed with such truthfulness + raw honesty.

Hugo Crosthwaite's newest exhibition is powerful and evocative, but more importantly, perhaps, it speaks to our human frailties, specifically, the ways in which we process...

Employing painting to record and revitalize intense sensory experiences, they rendered the frailty and vitality of the human condition, translating life into art and reinventing the ways in which their surroundings could be represented.

«His art... is about the human condition, which is why the images or scenes depicted are not specific to China, nor especially to the era... and individual experience in this rapidly modernising society acts as a backdrop to Jia Aili's awareness of human frailty, vulnerability, and the need to be mindful of one's surroundings.»

This frailty is not only apparent, but decisive for the fate of works which, very often, do not survive the exhibiting event, being conceived as transient creations.

Hartung's late painting, much of which was made from the confines of a wheelchair, is amongst the most vigorous of his lifetime, revealing a renewed sense of freedom, energy and ambition despite his advancing age and increasing frailty.

And older climate models did not include dynamic ice sheet vulnerabilities — like high latent - heat ocean water coming into contact with the submerged faces of sea - fronting glaciers, the ability of surface melt water to break up glaciers by pooling into cracks and forcing them apart (hydrofracturing), or the innate rigidity and frailty of steep ice cliffs which render them susceptible to rapid toppling.

* Whilst modern automatic weather stations - introduced from around 1980 - have removed many of the human frailties, and its instrumentation has the potential to be generally accurate, to this day problems arise with inappropriate siting, some examples of which can be seen in this site.

I mentioned this sort of point recently in connection with Antarctic cooling, where readers need to keep in mind the frailty of early Antarctic data, which might well permit reanalysis — and so - called «cooling» might well depend on frail data.

It presages a law captured by the rhetoric of the right to freedom of expression without due regard to the value underlying the particular exercise of that right; a law in which, under the guise of the right to freedom of expression, the «right» to offend can be exercised without responsibility or restraint providing it does not cause a disruption or disturbance in the nature of public disorder; a law in which an impoverished amoral concept of «public order» is judicially ordained; a law in which the right to freedom of expression trumps — or tramples upon — other rights and values which are the vital rights and properties of a free and democratic society; a law to which any number of vulnerable individuals and minorities may be exposed to uncivil, and even odious, ethnic, sexist, homophobic, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, and anti-Islamic taunts providing no public disorder results; a law in which good and decent people can be used as fodder to promote a cause or promote an action for which they are not responsible and over which they have no direct control; a law which demeans the dignity of the persons adversely affected by those asserting their right to freedom of expression in a disorderly or offensive manner; a law in which the mores or standards of society are set without regard to the reasonable expectations of citizens in a free and democratic society; and a law marked by a lack of empathy by the sensibilities, feelings and emotional frailties of people who can be deeply and genuinely affronted by language and behaviour that is beyond the pale in a civil and civilised society.

Not only is the individual's information potentially not particularly accurate — they may deliberately try to be less active — but in this case they will also be bringing in an expert to say what the average activity level is «which is subject to all kinds of frailties as well,» says Hayes.