Sentences with phrase «precipitating life»

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There were no events in my life that precipitated it.

These are among the precipitating events of Zach Czaia's first book of poems, Saint Paul Lives Here (In Minnesota)....

The introduction of technology at critical life thresholds has precipitated an HEW - imposed moratorium on fetal research until more satisfactory guidelines for biomedical and behavioral research can be developed.

It is obvious to me that I altered my brain significantly after years of intense / deep prayer and meditation and that as a result of these contributory experiences I was a high - functioning schizophrenic for a good portion of my life — there were things going on in my biology which predisposed me to being a depressive and a high - functioning schizophrenic but engaging in intense / deep prayer and meditation was only exacerbating this problem by altering my state of consciousness which precipitated the psychotic symptoms and psychic phenomena which I experienced.

In the utterly tragic figure of old Eli and in the loss of the ark, the symbol of God's presence, from the central sanctuary at Shiloh (probably destroyed by the Philistines in this time), we are further prepared for the establishment of monarchy in Israel: it was Philistine aggression, far too powerful to be checked by the resources of a loose tribal confederation, which precipitated the chain of events leading through Saul and David to a unified and extensive, if short - lived, Israelite kingdom.

Thus, the kingdom is not already present in this call, but it is near, and this precipitates a crisis of personal decision as to whether one will accept for his life the reign of God.

Criswell's ecumenical openness, however tentative, presaged and in some measure precipitated the major realignment that has brought Southern Baptists and Catholics together on a host of moral issues, the most important of which is the sanctity of human life.

Shutting down the government's life support to the economy could precipitate a double - dip recession.

For more than three billion years the mats captured and precipitated sediments, building reefs over a hundred metres high and hundreds of kilometres long, and changing in composition and complexity as new forms of life appeared.

And although the September 11th attacks — and the events they precipitated — might have been life - altering in many ways for adults, for many kids, they simply might not be worth dwelling on, anniversary or not.

In near - freezing temperatures, the vaporized mercury condenses quickly, precipitating into gutters and onto the street, and even pooling on the floor of shops or adjoining living quarters, Fernández said.

Reef building corals precipitate calcium carbonate as an exo - skeleton and provide substratum for prosperous marine life.

Thus, 2.5 billion years ago the oceans on Earth were warm and able to precipitate silica as a preserving medium for early life forms in a way not found on Earth today, except in hot springs.

But these are not real life, real time conditions, so we can only guess at which proteins would precipitate and which would be broken down.

All you need now is a prescription for an antibiotic drug to tip the balance and precipitate dysbiosis or SIBO (small intestinal bowel overgrowth), especially if you drink alcohol or have a sugar - laden diet to cope with your stressful life.

The rest (about 30 %) are called idiopathic (no known cause) but can be precipitated by events in people's lives that severely impair adrenal function.

QB jet: As our instrumentalist wag notes, The precipitate research ball union and he was living thing cut a diverge posture passenger vehicle city earlier the.

On Geena Davis (a rare tangent into the living, precipitated by his memories of Oliver Reed on Cutthroat Island): «Perhaps in a long laundry list of ludicrous events I have witnessed on film sets, the one I most treasure is watching my leading lady having her makeup and hair assiduously attended to between each take of one scene.

When chance brings Naoko back into his life amidst political instability, their shared grief soon precipitates a romantic connection.

Director Tim Blake Nelson's haunting meditation of city life traces the chain of events that precipitate the attack, examining the inextricable and unforeseen forces that bring a group of disparate individuals together.

He solves the mystery, with someone else's confession filling in the details; and then, in his pride at having figured it all out, he plays God, takes control of the destiny of the reborn victim, and ends by precipitating consequences he will find difficult to live with, and facing an agonizing awareness of himself.

As Rachel draws McKenna back into her family and community, the move precipitates a slow unravelling of her life and the result is a dark, affecting work that left us very impressed at Sundance, where it won the Best Directing award.

And on that first night, a small windfall precipitates a chain of events - involving a bag of «jinxed» money, a suave American, a trunk full of heroin, a hustler taxi driver, and a rich doctor's daughter - that changes Robert's life forever.

Yet both Luxe Hotels and Emerik Hotel, LLC believe that with the highly successful track record of the Luxe brand name and the current excitement of the revitalized downtown LA area — precipitated by the Staples Center and, most recently, the opening of LA Live — now is the time to make this move to take the hotel to the next level.

What does it mean to be living in these times, in these precipitating hours, these accumulating minutes, these multiplying seconds, here, now?

If human - induced global warming, among other factors such as human - driven pollution and human - forced overpopulation, serve decisively to precipitate the massive extinction of biodiversity, the irreversible degradation of Earth's environment and the reckless dissipation of its resources, so as to make our planetary home unfit for life as we know it, then is no one to bear responsibility for such a colossal wreckage as we could help to perpetrate in these early years of Century XXI?

Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending upon your preference or perspective) we live on a planet where carbon dioxide doesn't precipitate out of the «sky».

Perhaps many too many leaders of the global political economy are spurning the moral obligations, responsibilities and duties associated with their stations in life by turning a blind eye to the gigantic scale and anticipated growth of human over-consumption, overproduction and overpopulation activities that can be seen precipitating the extirpation of species like the polar bear, the reckless dissipation of non-renewable natural resources and the drastic degradation of the environs of our planetary home.

When did you know your generation was inadvertently precipitating the massive extinction of life as we know it and destroying the Earth?

On Earth, water (which is radiatively active as a gas or a cloud) is the only condensable substance in the atmosphere, while the «long - lived» greenhouse gases (mostly CO2, CH4, O3, or N2O) do not precipitate from the air under modern temperature or pressure regimes.

Other scientists dispute the necessity of life to the carbon cycle, for even without plankton calcium carbonate at sufficiently high concentration would precipitate out of ocean water.)

That might be recognised in a mother's habitual behaviour toward her youngest son, usually precipitated by his childishness, where the absence of emotional involvement with her husband (whose occupational role has taken him increasingly out of family life) was a disposing factor because neither parent have acknowledged the family life cycle issues they face after 25 years of marriage.

Children are the innocents in a divorce process; they have not precipitated this event, but this is frequently one of the most significant events in their lives to date.

For Amanda, the social out - casting, exclusion, and threats on her life precipitate a horrible battle with anxiety, panic attacks, night terrors, and severe depression that cut deep into her soul, leading to recurrent thoughts of suicide.

Our interviews suggest that financial needs often precipitate the move into shared living among the less advantaged, while the college educated are better able to maintain separate homes while getting to know each other and assessing whether their relationship has a future.