Sentences with phrase «of less suffering»

I suppose brain damage of certain kinds might advance someone toward the goal of less suffering.

Not exact matches

I never lost consciousness, was never short of breath, and suffered less damage to my heart than might have been expected (although I do have some degree of permanent damage.)

Having already suffered significant legal penalties, SNC - Lavalin has engaged in a process of reforming itself, making internal changes that (hopefully) will change the organization's character and make it less likely to offend in future.

A number of studies have also found that coffee drinkers are less likely to suffer from Alzheimer's or dementia.

Washington suffered from a number of otherwise debilitating, painful ailments and diseases throughout his life that would have taken a lesser man down — but not the man who founded the most powerful country ever to grace the Earth.

Companies that make their values plain are far less likely to suffer the trauma of problem employees.

Put another way, the fatter and less active you become, the better the chances are that you'll suffer some form of cardiovascular disease.

When they do choose to exercise their freedom and work outside the office, they find they suffer as second - class citizens in the shadows of their less inventive and more conservative colleagues.

If you have the sort of cute - but - less - than - authoritative face that causes random aunts to reach out and pinch your cheeks, is your career as an entrepreneur bound to suffer?

At today's prices, industry forecasts of three million barrels per day by 2020 are likely to underestimate production by a bit, but the real kicker will be on the value of that production to all concerned — governments, via taxes and royalties, and shareholders will all suffer much lower returns from this development than they would have expected less than a year ago if prices stay where they are today.

In particular Women who vacationed at least two times per year were less likely to suffer from depression and had decreased levels of stress.

Goldman Sachs has named R. Martin Chavez as the new Chief Information Officer less than a month after Goldman Sachs suffered a high profile trading systems glitch, potentially costing the firm millions of dollars and prompting an internal review.

[30:08] Life is too short to suffer [31:01] It's the thoughts that are stressful that you believe that mess you up — when you question them, you break the pattern [31:20] The more you train yourself to do it, the easier it becomes [31:40] Don't wait to be rich, richness is joy and abundance [32:01] Loss, Less, Never: the sources of all suffering [32:06] The antidote is to see it for what it is, know it's «BS,» and find something to appreciate [33:49] So much of our life has become about expectation.

We don't know the full damage Harvey has caused yet, but already the media narrative that has emerged seems to be focusing far less on the black and underprivileged populations that suffered the most at the hands of Katrina.

The end result of this is that portfolios consisting of more cash - generating dividend stocks tend to have far less volatility and suffer gentler falls than their counterparts.

Marathon prefers to employ generalists who are less likely to suffer from «reference group neglect» and better able to employ an understanding of capital cycle dynamics across industries» Edward Chancellor

The words «social» and «media» were never linked — if they were, it meant a group of people watching atelevision show together (suffering through commercials, no less!).

Therefore, individuals with positive PsyCap scores are better able to manage the effects of work stress on mental wellbeing and are less likely to suffer burnout.

But a quarter of U.S. real estate already is in negative equity — worth less than the mortgages attached to it — and the property market is still shrinking, so banks are not lending except with public Federal Housing Administration guarantees to cover whatever losses they may suffer.

How European markets might react to the possibility of «Brexit,» which is shorthand for «British exit from the European Union,» both in the run - up to the UK election and its aftermath, remains unclear, although given that UK assets suffered as the result of the referendum on Scottish independence became less predictable such volatility could conceivably reoccur.

You seem to imply that because AIDS is behavior - specific this somehow makes it less deserving of our response than other forms of suffering.

Once you fully let go of that delusion and see us for what we are, just another specie vying for survival and dominance based on instincts that evolved before we had the ability to inflict widespread death, suffering, and destruction on other people, there is less cause for cynicism.

If Protestantism hadn't suffered the internal erosion of its orthodox substance in the long devolution that began with Kant and the Enlightenment, he suggests, it might have been less vulnerable to the ideological blandishments of National Socialism and its promise of a German national rebirth.

Many others in Geneva suffered lesser fates under the rule of Calvin for their «impiety».

You can not justify major suffering by pointing to minor moral failings, which all of us have, especially when many with equal or greater failings suffer less.

These are some of the principles on which the schools of thought based their decisions: all things are fundamentally allowable, unless specifically prohibited; toleration and the lifting of restrictions should be the aim of legislation; eradication of mischief is the aim of administration; necessity permits benefiting by things not otherwise allowable; necessity is given due appreciation; preventing mischief has priority over bringing about welfare; commit the lesser of two evils; mischief is not removed by mischief; one should suffer private damage to avert general disaster.

4:4), and that the title «Messiah» or «Christ,» that is, Son of God, was rightfully his during his earthly life - though for Paul the word «Christ» is less a title than a personal name — still Paul thinks of his earthly life as chiefly the scene of his suffering, death, and resurrection, not of his messianic career.

This is just another way of saying that God loves every man at every moment in every specific situation as he loved his Son Jesus Christ: not more (for Jesus Christ was delivered up to temptation, to testing, to fatigue, to hunger, to suffering and to death), but not less.

And I really wish Christians would make up their minds about Jesus's place in the big scheme of things: is he a co-equal third of a trinity of ent.ities who somehow make up one large god, or is he a lesser god sent by his greater father god to suffer in order to straighten out the weird sin situation he created and didn't get around to fixing for thousands of years (the whole John 3:16 thing people are so fond of quoting only makes any sort of sense in the second situation).

Let's instead work to make it better, and by so doing bring an end to some of the suffering in the world... which I think we all can agree is something we would all like to see less of.

That child's dance is nothing less than the eternal dance of divine Wisdom before God's throne, the dance of David and the angels and saints before his glory; it is the true face of creation, which God came to restore and which he will not suffer to see corruption..

Speaking concretely, it would yield less relief of suffering, less patient autonomy, corruption of the practice of medicine, and a decline in the quality of palliative care.

Within the framework of process philosophy, it seems to me even less likely to succeed: it must suffer the same sort of fate as belief.

One theory I have is that the devil attacks them harder, and that while trying to live the life of the Cross, it acts like testing metal in fire — the worst will come out, burn brighter, they may have more suffering going on and less wordy things to turn to as crutches — these aren't excuses, but possible reasons.

It is naturally less personal than those written to people he knew, and it is his greatest theological statement — an exposition of his faith, its foundations, its bearing on suffering, sin, and problems of moral decision.

But if even Adam and Eve, driven in rage and guilt from the Earthly Paradise to which they may never return, may be said to be forced into a new «lifestyle» — if, that is to say, some especially desirable items are permanently out of stock, but there are still others, only relatively less appealing, beckoning from the shelves — if this is what the Fall amounts to, then how is it possible to comprehend the full implications of suffering or loss of any kind, whether in Mozambique or in Romania or in the luxurious American suburb?

What is less intuitive — but what Gethsemane and, later, Calvary force us to notice — is that the will of God is also the way of the incarnate Lord into the far country of our suffering and dying, where he is mocked, spit upon, strung up, and left to suffocate.

In the published version of the play, on the other hand, they enter later, say less, and make no attempt to mitigate his suffering.

«His work in philosophy forms part, and a very important part, of the movement of twentieth - century realism; but whereas the other leaders of that movement came to it after a training in late - nineteenth - century idealism, and are consequently realistic with the fanaticism of converts and morbidly terrified of relapsing into the sins of their youth, a fact which gives their work an air of strain, as if they cared less about advancing philosophical knowledge than about proving themselves good enemies of idealism, Whitehead's work is perfectly free from all this sort of thing, and he suffers from no obsessions; obviously he does not care what he says, so long as it is true.

So far as Gandhi was concerned, it was towards a syncretism of mystic Hindu spirituality with the self - giving and suffering love of Jesus the Crucified Messiah producing the politics of nonviolence aimed at a secular nation - state based more or less on inter-religious understanding and the decentralized socialism of Sarvodaya.

Children in such households may suffer less from the insecurities incidental to breaking up the home than from the poisons of their parents» mutual antagonism.

So then in the Christian understanding of it not even death is the sickness unto death, still less everything which is called earthly and temporal suffering: want, sickness, wretchedness, affliction, adversities, torments, mental sufferings, sorrow, grief.

It is also important to add that philosophy is less than the totality of Christianity, so that any philosophical understanding of evil can not possibly be sufficient for anyone who suffers.

But there is one recurrent story from which, if I am honest, I have repeatedly averted my gaze when considering what to write about in these columns: the seemingly never - ending story of the world - wide pandemic of paedophile scandals among the Catholic clergy, and the apparently universal practice of episcopal cover - up, involving as it did (I use the past tense hopefully) a - to put it mildly - less than adequate concern with the sufferings of the victims.

The sensory suffering of the victim can hardly be imagined, much less the psychological and spiritual agony.

Hidden in all this avoidance of evil is nothing less than a painless, suffering - free and, finally, immortal existence,» a goal he finds wrongheaded and dangerous.

And the political reality is even redder than it looks, since a number of the blue dogs who did survive, having observed the cruel fate suffered by their colleagues, will now be less likely to sit and stay at the President's command.

If you suffer from a brand of this delusion, it is no less crazy than any other.

If you don't believe me, head back to Gethsemane again and witness Jesus putting in a request — no less than three times — for the cup of suffering to be taken away.

If you suffer from a brand of the delusion that holds any of it as «reality», it is no less crazy than any other.