Sentences with phrase «grow ad infinitum»

Although a clause in the law that funds NIH prevents the agency from funding research that would harm or destroy an embryo, a lawyer at the Department of Health and Human Services ruled in 1999 that because stem cells — which can grow ad infinitum in culture — are not themselves embryos, the NIH could fund work with cells that were derived by privately funded researchers or researchers overseas.

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In Buddhism particularly, we can discern a growing tendency to absolutize the significance of the master's person: he became divine in the «northern» schools; pious believers even multiplied his person ad infinitum.

As Albert Ellis, one of the founders of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, points out — «the original cause is lost in antiquity,» as further analysis takes one back to the learnings about conflict resolution in the partner's families growing up, and then we'd have to go back to the parent's families and early training (not to mention the cultural context), ad infinitum.