Sentences with phrase «gradual death of»

Associated with a bacteria that is spread by the Asian citrus psyllid, the infection results in blotchy mottling of leaves, stunting of shoots, gradual death of branches, and small, deformed fruits with bitter juice.

«I know how awful it is to watch people you love struggle as the disease robs them of their mental capacity... It feels a lot like you're experiencing a gradual death of the person that you knew,» he said in a blog post about the dementia investments.

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But as BMO Capital Markets analyst Tim Casey recently pointed out, the industry still appears to be on death row because of the «gradual but unrelenting erosion of revenues, operating margins and valuation multiples.»

Jesus is spoken of as the second Adam, reversing in his physical death humanity's spiritual death — so there is a sense that the fall is also being undone in Jesus, but that this is coming into fruition gradually, in the sense that the kingdom of God coming both has come and is coming — so a gradual progression away from the curse of the fall should actually be the expectation.

On the one hand, there is the thesis of Oswald Spengler, who believed that he had identified a natural law for the great moments in cultural history: First comes the birth of a culture, then its gradual rise, flourishing, slow decline, aging, and death.

After peerless union such as theirs, death seems to offer the sole noble alternative to a gradual deterioration of their love.

The acceptance of punctuated equilibrium put to death the then prevailing thought that gradual change was the evolutionary mechanism of speciation (Darwinian phyletic gradualism, which had held sway for > 100 years, was utterly debunked)

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

The paper provides for a gradual transition, with no life peers forced to retire before death, but with the possibility of a redundancy package should they choose it.

It leads to a gradual loss of autonomy and, eventually, to death.

Gradual increase of p53 levels activates apoptosis promoting protein Bak on the surface of the mitochondria making these cells vulnerable to death.

I hope that through research we can find ways to protect the retinal neurons from gradual death, and thereby preserve vision to improve AMD patients» quality of life.

These retinal cells are the type that are killed off in macular degeneration, eventually leading to the death of photoreceptors, and the gradual loss of central vision.

Proponents of the bill believe these chemicals are contributing to gradual but vast coral bleaching and death.

Studies indicate that lipid peroxides, which can cause free radicals, induce the cell death (apoptosis) of hair follicle cells in an inflammatory process which is gradual and initiated by several factors.

«The FDA [U.S. Food and Drug Administration] has now recommended a gradual reduction in sodium content in many such foods, which should lead to lower rates of hypertension as well as cardiovascular disease and deaths,» she said.

Severe abdominal pain and gradual accumulation of hemorrhagic blood in the abdominal cavity can lead to acute shock and death.

Instead of the old system that simply saw you go hollow and unable to summon friends for co-op, death in DSII now results in a gradual reduction of your health bar, until it reaches the minimum of 50 percent.

Like the motion of the tides, the cycles of the moon, and the gradual heat death of the universe, so goes the inevitable porting of Popcap Games» casual smash hit Peggle to new platforms.

His experiences in the wake of the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011 and the death of his father have been cited as influences on his gradual shift toward a more contemplative mood in his work.

Stunning images of gravestones in Ethiopia, show how as a result of time, those already buried continue to experience a second death; the gradual deterioration of their entombed identity.

Evolution is usually a slow gradual process, but Gould was onto something when he proposed punctuated equilibrium, (since his death there have been more discovered transition fossils) and I suggest you guys read all of his «doorstop,» books.