Sentences with phrase «life efforts such»

When nursing directors know more about palliative care, nursing home patients have less likelihood of experiencing disruptive end - of - life efforts such as feeding tubes.

Not exact matches

Google efforts such as the Calico life - extension effort, self - driving cars and Google Fiber broadband, among others, will each be their own separate operations under one big umbrella:

The House's move is part of a broader GOP agenda - such as the effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act - to reduce the size and influence of the federal government on everyday life.

While moving in, I spent a lot of time sifting through my possessions in an effort to downsize my life into such a small space; the results were astonishing.

There will also be a parallel call for benefits, professional development, and compensation that smooths out the rough patches in this on - demand labor life, but such efforts will lag behind the exploitation of said labor because big business has more resources and big tech moves too fast for human - scale responses of accountability and responsibility.

As such, cryptocurrency allows people a means to generate income that is not battered by regional inflation as well as the ability to use any accumulated earnings to enter higher education in an effort to improve their lives.

One of the reasons sports are so popular is that the lessons they teach apply to so many other areas of life, such as the rewards of teamwork, discipline, effort and mental preparation.

«If such efforts fail, our way of life will become counter-cultural, always a difficult situation for Christians ¯ one our forebears faced in many ages past, one that the Lord himself predicted for us.

She rightly points out that «the work of Servais - Theodore Pinckaers might stand as a bridge uniting the efforts of younger Thomists and Balthasarians because of its accent on the theo - dramatic nature of moral life,» but she also at times indulges in such unhelpful labels as «Baroque Thomism» and «nuptial mysticism.»

Such is the world to which Padre Manuel Freire has given the past 20 years of his life, in an effort to bring affordable, relevant education to La Chala, an extremely poor neighborhood in Guayaquil.

In this second conclusion, Schweitzer boldly demands a moratorium on all further efforts to achieve a scholarly, historical reconstruction of the life of Jesus; He claims that his research has proved the futility of all such attempts, and in any case, such studies are not what the modern world or Christianity needs.

As soon as the 2nd amendment starts becoming modified to fit the times we live in, that will be the moment our freedoms start to become watered - down, and consequently, after more and more efforts are made to further limit the meaning of the 2nd amendment, we will find ourselves with such a weak interpretation or effictive realization of the 2nd amendment that it will be too late, and we might as well arm ourselves with BB guns.

Attempting to redress such problems all too often simply compounds the difficulties of certain groups, and even of entire populations, in their efforts to maintain or improve their standards of living in the face of a hostile political or economic environment.

By extension every good deed, every struggle for justice and deliverance from oppression, every effort to care for and show concern about those who are in need, will be not merely a reflection of the divine mercy and righteousness but also an instrument for the bringing about of just such shalom or «abundance of life» for God's human children, So one might go on, almost without ceasing, to show that response in faith to the action of God in this vivid moment has its implications and applications for the whole range of human life and experience.

Indeed, he convincingly argues that forgoing last - ditch efforts such as the Hail Mary round of chemotherapy can sometimes be «almost Zen: you live longer when you stop trying to live longer.»

The teacher's approach to such problems might start from three assumptions: (a) the teacher should be concerned with how science fits into the larger framework of life, and the student should raise questions about the meaning of what he studies and its relation to other fields; (b) controversial questions can be treated, not in a spirit of indoctrination, but with an emphasis on asking questions and helping students think through assumptions and implications; an effort should be made to present viewpoints other than one's own as fairly as possible, respecting the integrity of the student by avoiding undue imposition of the lecturer's beliefs; (c) presuppositions inevitably enter the classroom presentation of many subjects, so that a viewpoint frankly and explicitly recognized may be less dangerous than one which is hidden and assumed not to exist.

Mr. Ettinger simply asks why such a possibility can not be considered as an extension of all previous efforts to save and extend life when threatened by disease.

In our effort thus far to describe and illustrate the role of the imagination in preaching, we have considered two aspects of its power: the investiture of the Christian moral vision with such sensibility as sometimes enables it to enclose within the meaning of the Word of God the subtler perditions that stalk men's lives; and the power to behold, and in part reenact, the architectonic structure of grace that is the subliterary matrix out of which the witness emerges.

Such an effort is a necessary component of any sort of engagement of theology with those who live outside the context of the faith community.

This is such a huge subject that I must beg indulgence, therefore, if I give my space to but a small fraction of the historic faith — namely its main emphases on God, Christ, the Church, and eternal life — and consider only these in our modem context, in the effort to discover what values they may have for men and women who are tossed about in an unsettled world, with an uncertain future, and doomed — almost certainly it seems — to a doubtful truce of arms, at worst to a war which threatens to annihilate man as we have known him and in any event to leave us a bare existence such as we can eke out on a totally devastated planet.

If we fail to make such an effort, we risk isolating Christian faith from cultural and academic life.

At a time when leading scholars in Germany, Italy, Britain, and North America have done so much to clear the good name of Pius XII, honoring his life - saving efforts, it is distressing to find such outdated and discredited allegations being promoted by the Levi Center.

If our redescriptions of the world of everyday life under the sign of the Resurrection have helped to fuel this desire for goodness and happiness in this life, if they have helped us formulate, with Kant, the notion of a human society understood as a «Kingdom of ends» (in which each human being, including oneself, is treated as an end in him or herself), we find that the effort to realize such hopes requires us to «postulate» realities which we can not «know»: freedom, immortality, God.

But then the question is, what «theological account» best supports such trust in Christ, and more generally, a complete life of service, strong family bonds, and the effort to live a moral life befitting of a son or daughter of God redeemed by Christ's atonement?

Although he recognizes the precariousness of efforts to communicate with an invisible, silent God, the abiding paradox of living in a world that recognizes its own contingency forces him to concede that such communication will likely continue as a feature of modern life.

Its best analysts — such as Czeslaw Milosz, Robert Conquest, and Alain Besançon — agreed in calling it an «ideocracy» because of its inhuman effort to govern according to utopian ideological criteria almost wholly disconnected from the lived experience of humankind.

Grace is only cheapened when we try to add human effort such as requiring people to have a changed heart, life, lifestyle, mind and character in order to assure them that God loves and forgives them and freely gives them eternal life.

Without the sphere of unconscious and lifeless chunks of matter delineated by dualism such a methodological ideal (which animates current efforts especially in biology to find the physico - chemical «secret» of life) could hardly have taken hold in modern scientific thought.

Such religion defends the status quo at all costs, identifies faith in God with staunch conservatism, and associates «civilized» life with stony immobility in the face of revisionist efforts.

Having developed complex computer systems for more than 30 years it always brings out the worst in me when I see such half *** ed efforts by the wunder kids who took my job and professional life.

Pope John Paul II himself has said that «a great teaching effort is needed to clarify the substantive moral difference between discontinuing medical procedures that may be burdensome, dangerous, or disproportionate to the expected outcome»» what the Catechism of the Catholic Church calls «the refusal of «over «zealous» treatment» (2278)»» and taking away the ordinary means of preserving life, such as feeding, hydration, and normal medical care.»

A) its propensity to self preservation beyond its useful life, B) its rigidity; if you don't fit its mould it tends to either ignore you or try to change you to make it fit, and, C) its use of resources such as time finances and effort.

Efforts toward a new understanding of the life of the parish have significance for the priest as well.52 Some individualistic forms of traditional priestly piety such as the private Mass are being questioned, and simpler yet more demanding forms of prayer than the formal meditation are being urged.

It is really special to me that my grandma made such an effort to participate in our birthdays, even though she lived so far away.

While our organization has branched out (pun intended) since its founding 30 years ago to protect temperate forests (such as those in the Appalachian mountains), and tropical forests in Africa and Asia, our first efforts were focused on the rainforests of Latin America, working with farmers and foresters there to improve their lives and livelihoods so they wouldn't have to clear trees to plant crops or sell timber.

they are little for such a short time, and focusing all your efforts on potty training will rob you of truly enjoying these short - lived, wonder - filled moments.

When a troubled teen fails to respond to outpatient treatment or efforts by the authority figures in his life, it may be time to consider a more intensive program such as a therapeutic boarding school.

Such facilities are usually a last resort for parents whose teens have been unable or unwilling to respond to outpatient efforts by the authority figures in their lives.

Her writing moves me because she makes such an effort to appreciate «the sparkles» in life.

Many moms, however, report that extreme efforts to promote the benefits of breastfeeding, such as a lower risk of SIDS or chronic disease later on in life, has contributed to a culture that shames mothers who can not exclusively breastfeed, as does judgment from finger - wagging family members and friends.

About 30 volunteers for Koslowitz took to the streets and made phone calls Sunday in an effort to remind voters about the primary and inform them about Koslowitz's platform, which she said includes addressing «quality of life» issues like traffic and empty storefronts, especially along such shopping hubs as Austin Street.

Nicholas A. Langworthy, the Republican Party chairman in Erie County, N.Y., said he's taken aback by Clinton's repeated references to what he described as «small bore» efforts, such as securing federal money for a Buffalo project called Artspace that created residential living space for artists.

The LGBT folks such an effort could reach are the ones who will spread our message in that region, maybe convincing some hard - shell Republican senator that our lives are real and our issues have merit and they should look beyond the votes they can win through the nodding approval of fundamentalist churches in their districts or on the Conservative Party line in the fall.

In an effort to address such challenges, researchers working in the field known as the physics of living systems (or biophysics), which has emerged only in the last few years as a discipline with a distinct identity, decided to help themselves by creating their own professional network.

The aim of current de-extinction efforts is to use gene - editing tools to engineer living species to re-create extinct cousins, such as engineering a woolly mammoth from an elephant.

As the corps considers public comment on the new permit, Pew is spotlighting living shorelines across the country, said Laura Lightbody, program director for the foundation's efforts aimed at reducing the impact of weather - related catastrophes, such as floods and hurricanes, on the U.S. economy, communities and environment.

Despite various efforts to stop the infection, such as quarantining infected lemurs and decontaminating their enclosures, more than half of the sifakas living at the center have tested positive for crypto at some point.

Career - centered efforts At Vandenberg, the pioneers of the mission, such as Tom Schmugge, a retired NASA engineer who first came up with the idea of a soil moisture mission, and other scientists who have dedicated their lives to the mission, erupted with cheers, hugs and handshakes.

Global campaigns such as the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) to bring more transparency to the oil and gas sectors in an effort to alleviate the resource curse have yet to live up to their promises, a new study finds.

There are also efforts to give people who hear voices practical support to continue with their lives, such as sheltered accommodation or supported employment.