Sentences with phrase «of mortality as»

If they didn't construct the policy in this way, the life insurance companies wouldn't be able to pay the higher costs of mortality as you age.

Their beliefs followed the traditions of the Russian philosopher Nikolaj Fedorov, who saw, alongside the expansion into outer space, the overcoming of mortality as the central aim of mankind.

A new study disputes the effectiveness of mortality as a measure of the quality of care provided by hospitals to stroke patients - and therefore hospital rankings - because use of do - not - resuscitate (DNR) orders differs widely between hospitals.

It's not quite immortality as people would still be susceptible to accidental or intentional death, but it would certainly change the face of mortality as we know it.

Not exact matches

Consider, for example, the other seven MDG objectives, such as a proposed 75 % improvement in maternal health outcomes, to a 66 % decline in mortality rates for children under the age of five.

The ENDEAVOUR Phase 3 study data monitoring committee recommended dosing be suspended after it found «an imbalance of mortality» in patients who used revusiran as compared to placebo.

As Dan Mangan reports for CNBC, «despite spending well in excess of the rate of any other of those countries in 2013, the United States achieved worse outcomes when it comes to rates of chronic conditions, obesity and infant mortality.»

«The type of hidden fees annuity investors should pay attention to are separate account [investment funds] expense ratios; back - end sales charges; annual administration fees; mortality and expense costs; any rider fees, such as guaranteed income rider, death benefit riders [and] principal protection riders, to name a few,» says financial planner Joseph Carbone of Focus Planning Group.

In development since 2015, the opera, which runs for six performances, focuses on Jobs as he looks back on the formative events of his life as he faces his own mortality.

In the years after stabilization, Bolivia enjoyed a restoration of economic growth, low inflation, democratic governance, and improvements in social indicators [3] such as life expectancy and infant mortality.

However, the calculated initial drawdown rate is based on the Extended Mortality variable withdrawal strategy which can decrease if market conditions are unfavourable, as demonstrated in the example at the end of chapter 4.

Based on conversation with physician experts, SunTrust said it believes LJPC - 501 hits on multiple characteristics of a successful drug, including effectiveness at improving MAP, a good safety profile, easily titratable and positive mortality benefit as supported by a statistically significant reduction in CV SOFA score.

To glimpse the depth of love that is at work in this blessed exchange (our mortality becoming his, his immortality becoming ours) we need to discern the depth of humiliation behind it; and for that, we need to understand that mortality and corruption really are alien to his divine nature.Our Lord was not forced to lower himself so far as to share our materiality, flesh, and death.

With the decrease in infant and childhood mortality and the extension of life expectancy by modern medical technology; perhaps the unitive function of genital sexuality will begin to be valued as much as or more than the procreative function.

As I've entered my last years of life I've reflected on my own parent's deaths and my love for my family has been my foremost consideration in my own mortality.

When faced with our own mortality, when the undeniable finality of death is understood to be real and true, God, such as he is, disappears.

The end result in Atheism is either death or eternal mortality, conquering the universe and knowing everything as a part of a hive - mind.

It is a reminder of our own mortality, of our own coming end, and as such we can react with fear and irrationality when something disturbs our sense of right and wrong regarding our dead.

Takeaway for me is that the pain / suffering / rejection we experience in this life does not equal rejection by God — even if it does serve as a chastisement / correction for sin / failure in our lives — it reveals God's love and personal concern for our development, reminding us of our mortality and need to rely upon him... In short, the wounds / scars we receive are God's way of branding / choosing us as his own...

We are reminded not just of our strength but of our weakness as well; not just of glory but also of misery; not just of pleasure but also of finitude; not just of warmth and the coming - to - be of the self in relation with others, but also of limitation and isolation; not just marriage but divorce; not just trust but betrayal and desertion; not just good feeling but pain, suffering, daily reminders of mortality, impermanence, the inevitability and the necessity of death.

So many atheists make the same mistake: assuming that Christians are a «monolithic» group: that they all became Christians either through indoctrination as children or because they need a «crutch,» particularly as the result of fear of mortality.

As an industrialized nation, we have a shockingly high incidence of infant mortality and maternal death.

So, in honor of the new addition to Team Evans, I'm joining Melinda Gates, Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, Kay Warren, Desmond Tutu, Jimmy Carter and host of other Christian advocates in their support of an organization called Hope Through Healing Hands, and in particular the Faith Based Coalition for Healthy Mothers and Children Worldwide, which seeks to galvanize faith - based leaders and their constituencies around the issues of maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) as well as healthy timing and spacing of pregnancies (HTSP) to improve maternal health and reduce child mortality around the world.

Somewhat dubious, I searched for the data, which reveals the pro-lifer was right on the facts but offering an unsupported interpretation: The study showed that the maternal mortality rate declined after abortion was prohibited in 1989, but that it had already been declining for more than a decade, probably as a result of rising levels of women's education.

(See Melinda Gates» TED Talk on the role of contraception in curbing maternal and infant mortality as well as abortion.)

This is an interesting statistic to discuss, but to claim (as the pro-lifer did) the outlawing of abortion lowered maternal mortality rates is incorrect.

It might seem fitting, then, that the oratorio is bound together by a shared source material and a few shared themes (identified as «mortality, identity, the hunt»), but not by a shared understanding of Moby Dick as such.

As musical icon Prince joins a growing list of well known people who have died in 2016, David Robertson asks whether our secular culture is ready to face its own mortality

As a result from our denial of our own mortality we are reduced to live a life of mortification, self - loathing and guilt simply for being a normal human.

Philosophers from Parmenides to Hegel constructed the concept of the All as a fabrication of reason; Rosenzweig demands that we abandon this in favor of the recognition that our relationship to the All stems from our sentience of mortality.

Just as mortality is inherited through Adam, so is Original Sin inherent in all babies because of his terrible sin of curiosity.

The mortality of life gives one a focus and meaning that enables them to perhaps even greater appreciate what they do have, such as their families and friends.

Death's brutality over the greater part of the last two millennia cast a long shadow over everyday life as disease, famine, and infant mortality claimed victim after victim.

Later illegal shooting was described as «the leading cause of direct mortality in both adult and immature bald eagles,» according to a 1978 report in the Endangered Species Technical Bulletin

Higher and earlier than the angels, this true Adam is as old as God, older than the Bible, and is free of time, unstained by mortality.»

Instead of understanding, as James le Fanu writes, that «the implications of mortality are intrinsic to a proper grasp of the human experience», we choose to sanitise the things of death, including the language we use to describe it (in Last Things, Tablet, 29 November 2014, p. 28).

I am too scared to face the reality of my own mortality and am willing to be seen as hypocritical, hateful and ignorant if it means never having to think for myself.»

And as I have also said a few moments ago, man is the only animal, so far as we know, who is aware of his mortality and who may therefore meditate on the fact that he dies.

The first is that a human institution subject to all the sins and errors of mortality is here absolutized as the infallible spokesman for God.

In his recent book, Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity, he offers «four benefits» of mortality: interest and engagement, suggesting that adding, say, twenty years to the human life span would not proportionately increase the pleasures of life; seriousness and aspiration, proposing that the knowledge that our life is limited is what leads us to take life seriously and passionately; beauty and love, presenting the idea that it is precisely their perishability that makes, for instance, flowers beautiful to us, just as the coming and going of spring makes that season all the more meaningful; and, finally, virtue and moral excellence, by which he means the virtuous and noble deeds that mortality makes possible, including the sacrifice of our own life for a worthy cause.

Some rejected all forms of life after death, including the possibility of resurrection; some recognized man's mortality but looked for a physical resurrection as man's only hope, and then only for some; for some the resurrection hope was to be understood more universally and in varying spiritual forms; some thought in terms of the immortality of the soul and then could dispense with resurrection talk altogether.

Like Hazel, his brushes with cancer and mortality have forced him to deepen; the pair inevitably begin to build a connection over everyday existential concerns such as «the ghettoization of scrambled eggs».

And to attribute human mortality to the fall of Adam is sheer nonsense, for guilt implies personal responsibility, and the idea of original sin as an inherited infection is sub-ethical, irrational, and absurd.

An evolutionary view of the world requires mortality and suffering as part of nature.

In many developing countries, wages are much less, and as journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn have noted in their widely - acclaimed book Half the Sky, the empowerment and employment of women can have a direct and profound effect in curbing poverty, infant mortality, maternal mortality, and violence.

But because the society of our fellowmen, intimate or remote, is marked by the same mortality which is ours as persons, while the whole sweep of history as we experience and know it is also a mortal history — under the sign of death — any appraisal made in this way is also limited and partial.

The inheritance of ancestral sin, as we said in another place, lies in the fact that the body inherits corruptibility and mortality, which, with the passage of time, and as the child grows and passions develop, darkens the noetic part of his soul.

I love the idea that God says: Look, you cretins, there are certain results to the way we are, to selfishness, and there's a mortality as part of your very sinful nature, and, let's face it, you're not living a very good life, are you?

Thus for each of us, the exacting and inescapable question, which must be faced and answered, is the question of our total mortal life as we are now living it, a question which arises from our mortality with the responsibility which that entails, which puts itself to us in the form of our measuring up to the possibility of becoming authentically ourselves, and which issues in our realization (not so much in thought as in deeply felt experience as existing men) of blessedness, as we know ourselves becoming what we truly are, or in destruction or damnation, as we know ourselves both frustrated men and failures in our human fulfillment.

As Catholics, we know instinctively that maternal mortality is a tragedy and that abortion is not the answer, but I believe that we are under an obligation to turn that knowledge into action and offer hope to mothers around the world who face the prospect of giving birth in fear and trembling rather than with joy.