Sentences with phrase «other afflictions of»

Aquinas reasoned: «To bring death upon oneself in order to escape the other afflictions of this life is to adopt a greater evil in order to avoid a lesser....

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To Foster's point, Affliction, whose other staffers also sport huge muscles and acres of scar tissue, has seen average annual growth of more than 300 percent in the past two years.

And, according to Ghaemi, the common thread between them all — Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, J.F.K. and others — was some form of mental affliction.

Letter to Doctor Benjamin Rush from Thomas Jefferson Washington, April 21, 1803 Dear Sir, — In some of the delightful conversations with you, in the evenings of 1798 - 99, and which served as an anodyne to the afflictions of of the crisis through which our country was then laboring, the Crhistain religion was sometimes our topic; and I the promised you, that one day or other, I would give you my views of it.

The guest speaker asked if any of the other men could identify with my affliction.

And they reduce them to slavery, treating them with afflictions they would scarcely use with brute animals... Therefore, We... noting that the Indians themselves indeed are true men... by our Apostolic Authority decree and declare by these present letters that the same Indians and all other peoples — even though theyare outside the faith... should not be deprived of their liberty or their other possessions... and are not to be reduced to slavery, and that whatever happens to the contrary is to be considered null and void.»

I continue to be a part of AA to maintian a life of sobriety by remembering the way things were and to do what I can to help others with the same affliction.

The importance to their continued sobriety of putting converts to work helping others with like affliction.

Indeed, the animal rights movement's fury against the speciesist use of animals» a necessary element for human flourishing, particularly in medical research» has increased to the point that scientists are now under threat of death by the most radical liberationists for daring to experiment on rats or monkeys to find cures for cancer and other human afflictions.

Two nearby Methodist churches enjoyed better fortune during the time of Bigelow's affliction, and the people of Bigelow frequently base their self - assessment upon their sense that the programs in the two other churches are livelier and church life more opulent.

Gay men have vigorously fought off the only public health measures that could significantly contain the spread of AIDS — contact tracing and testing of partners — methods long used for syphilis and other sexually transmitted afflictions.

He will experience great affliction at the hands of others, and will cause great affliction as well.

Like millions of other people who have been delivered from every kind of sin and affliction, I too took Jesus Christ up on His offer, and He supernaturally changed me forever.

White does not simply present Malory's romance as an allegory for the ills of his age, though he recognizes its relevance, much less as a panacea for his own afflictions in any sense other than the humble one in which all polite literature is a welcome respite from terrestrial agonies.

Harness racing is taking a radical step in an attempt to solve one of its perennial problems: the high incidence of lameness and other afflictions that plague 2 - year - olds.

Indeed, critics complain that the mayor's personal fortune is bank - rolling his re-election and silencing democracy, but it is that wealth that frees Bloomberg from the affliction of so many other popularity - craving, poll - watching politicians.

CyberKnife and other noninvasive radiosurgery systems are producing ever more accurate energy beams, raising the possibility of extending the use of potentially lethal radiation to fight Parkinson's, epilepsy and other afflictions

Image courtesy of iStockphoto / JeremyRichards Diabetes, heart disease, stroke and other afflictions that once primarily plagued wealthier, western countries are now accelerating in poorer nations.A new study reveals that risk factors for heart disease in Indian cities are now more prevalent than they are in the U.S.

In the lab, replacing malfunctioning genes with working ones has succeeded in curing or treating animals with hemophilia, (the animal analogs of) depression, and other afflictions.

Imagine if genetic diseases could be removed from the very biological code of our species — a future in which the likes of hemophilia, cystic fibrosis or dozens of other afflictions are simply edited out of human embryos.

Young trees don't actually start to sequester significant amounts of carbon dioxidefor 20 years, he says, and it takes a tree 100 years to remove a measly 3,000 pounds of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere — assuming the tree survives drought, fire, flood, disease, and other afflictions.

In a letter to the lawmakers, he emphasizes the importance of nonhuman primate research in tackling Ebola, cardiovascular disease, and other afflictions.

Even to me, a case - hardened veteran of other people's affliction, the exposed sight was harrowing.

Other diseases claim limbs or organs; Alzheimer's devours the self, making it one of the few afflictions widely regarded as being worse than death.

This and other controversies aside, recent results raise the possibility that PTSD is a less distinctive affliction than originally thought and that its symptoms may arise in response to a plethora of intense stressors that are part and parcel of the human condition.

Over the past two years Skinner, of Washington State University, showed that as male descendants of these rats aged, they developed sperm deficiencies, infertility, and various other afflictions, from breast tumors to kidney disease.

Chrissy, who shares a room with her older sister, Brianna, 17, still receives cards and stuffed animals from well - wishers two years after she made international headlines.This month, she'll participate in a few community events to raise awareness about the importance of funding breast cancer research, says her mom, and she plans to speak at a fundraiser to help children with cancer and other serious afflictions.

For example, a book of «recipes» for all facets of life, written by Dr. A.W. Chase, MD in 1866, lists ten formulations of salve, eight of which contain tallow, in addition to other natural ingredients.17 This same medical doctor quotes the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal of his day on using pure tallow for a «very common and very painful affliction,» an ingrown toenail.

Liver cleansing diets can help you avoid possible later complications from liver disease, and the development of other afflictions related to an unhealthy liver.

As Abby loses her gift of touch, her socially awkward dentist brother inadvertently heals a patient suffering from a jaw disorder, and though he claims that it was just a fluke, he continues to cure hundreds of other patients who reverently seek him out to take away their own afflictions.

Emetophilia is a sexual fetish for seeing other people vomit, and if this is an affliction to which you ascribe, you could do a lot worse than pick up a ticket for this restoration screening of Frederick Wiseman's 1970 feature, Hospital.

Since the vast majority of bone cancer tumors appear in the limbs, the first symptoms are very similar to other leg injuries or afflictions

If your dog has any of these afflictions, your veterinarian can recommend a good medicated shampoo, as well as topical creams, oral medications, and other treatment options.

Feline odontoclastic resorptive lesions (FORL) is one other comparatively widespread dental affliction, affecting an estimated 50 p.c of cats.

Like the other factors, you should not exclude a clinic if they don't have this service but it is essential to be prepared and have a phone number always at hand in case of affliction.

My other recommendation is for you to become a bit of a doggie detective to understand what afflictions your dog's breed is prone to.

The ears, nose, stomach and other areas with naturally less hair are among the most common sites of affliction.

Had there been, say, attack and defense multipliers that could be applied, and other variables like maybe gravity sliders or changes to gameplay speed or random afflictions or whatever, this mode could have carried more of the burden for those seeking single - player content.

Its affliction soon spreads to most of the other Corebots.

At the Deep Games Laboratory in DePaul's College of Computing and Digital Media, associate professor Doris Rusch and her students develop video games that raise awareness for mental illness and other afflictions, and could even contribute to treatment.

A victim of a mysterious affliction that makes her blood a virulent poison and her touch instantly lethal, Cardia is shunned as a monster.Through a number of events both grand and seemingly insignificant, Cardia is pursued by the Royal Guard, kidnapped by the gentleman thief Arsène Lupin, and joined by a myriad of other handsome figures out of the best of western literature.

Some artists have been inspired by Du Bois» poetic writing, his 1913 Star of Ethiopia pageant, some by his early anticipation of the women's rights and environmental movements, and his warnings against nuclear proliferation and other modern afflictions.

Politics, while hardly ignored (in works by Andrea Bowers, Sam Durant and Harrell Fletcher, among others), exchange claims of affliction for a greater emphasis on formal allure.

In other words, these litigants are being deliberately «stigmatized» with a mental affliction alleged to be a symptom of paranoid schizophrenia, when they have not in fact been professionally diagnosed.

For example, an applicant lies and says they don't have a history of smoking in order to avoid a costly Smoker classification, but dies a year into their policy from lung cancer or some other lung - related affliction, the insurance company can investigate, determine the death was smoking - related, and decline to pay the death benefit because of application fraud.

In reading just the first few passages in Wendy Gelberg's Introduction, I immediately saw myself, relaxed and felt better about my «affliction,» and drank in her words: «My goal in writing this book is to pick up where other job search and career transition books leave off and to honor people of all types.»

For many years, depression and other disorders of mood were thought to be afflictions of only adults.

Morofsky made conscious breathing the centerpiece of Wellativity, which is what he calls his personal method for helping people overcome afflictions such as obesity, smoking, lethargy, eating disorders and any other behavior that inhibits wellness.