Sentences with phrase «to lose capacity»

Does an individual lose his capacity for prayer or religious oath upon taking office?

The reason for slowing down the older iPhones is to manage the issue where the lithium - ion batteries lose capacity over time.

Anyone with a laptop computer or smartphone knows all about how batteries lose their capacity over time.

For one thing, you have not lost the capacity to produce your characteristic one - liners.

Whilst the lasting power of attorney system is not without flaws, for most people the certainty of having one in place outweighs the uncertainty of losing capacity without one.

If the individual loses capacity to manage their property and financial affairs, or their health and welfare then the lasting power of attorney comes into effect.

The way in which a child's brain develops means they often lose the capacity to express themselves with words or even remember what they did that day (at school).

Our country has almost lost the capacity for self - criticism or for listening to criticism from others.

If your child hits any surface hard while wearing a helmet, replace it — helmets lose their capacity to absorb shock after taking serious hits.

As the film rolls on, however, this scientist from the skies loses her capacity to scare us.

But because of warming the ice is also losing its capacity to freeze back to previous levels.

The report provides an outlook on the catastrophic consequences we might have to cope with, if the oceans lose their capacity to act as a global temperature regulator.

An exception may be made if the patient's death is fast approaching or the patient might soon lose the capacity to provide informed consent.

There are many ways to formulate the problem our culture has created for itself, but one of the simplest is to say that we have lost the capacity for embarrassment.

All batteries lose capacity over time, so your laptop's battery life will decline no matter what you do.

It has not only lost its capacity for action, but serves to cultivate a pernicious state of denial.

And in the standard cosmological theory of today, the universe will either end in a «Big Crunch», in which time itself will end, or will continue to expand forever, becoming ever colder, darker and more empty, and eventually losing all capacity to sustain life.

Like Habermas, Luhmann believes that modern religion has largely lost its capacity to legitimate and unify the society as a whole.

and self - hatred, lack of trust, depression, and substance abuse and other forms of addiction are widespread, as children lose the capacity to give love and accept love from a parent.

The Career Readiness Institute is built on the belief that technology innovation and increased academic expectations are necessary for the advancement of the American education system, but it is equally important that our students never lose the capacity for those career ready «soft skills» such as kindness and the ability to communicate in a positive manner.

An ethics that does not take embodied relations into account — that allows for only one perspective — ultimately loses its capacity for flexibility, and for being part of a common and shared reality.

The cells lose their capacity over time.

«If some of these islands lose their capacity to do mosquito control, and the destruction from the storms creates opportunities for larger mosquito transmission,» Weaver said, we might see an uptick of the mosquito - borne diseases that circulate there, like dengue (which could spread beyond the Caribbean's borders as people travel to and from the islands, carrying the viruses with them).

Its shell of idealism survived into an age slowly losing its capacity to live for anything above the level of private life.

The exponents of the disciplines, be they scientists, economists or whoever, cling to their specialties as lifebelts that keep them afloat in a sea of general ideas in which they have lost the capacity either to plunge or to swim.

Alarmingly, the American Nursing Association adopted a policy in support of the right to commit VSED without intervention, stating, «A patient's decision regarding VSED is binding, even if the patient subsequently loses capacity.»

As a result, «you basically lose the capacity to perform tasks.»

This is because older mice lose the capacity to excrete adequate levels of two hormones: one that stimulates egg follicles to grow and mature and another that causes the ripened egg to be released from the ovary into the reproductive tract.

As an example he tells the story of a man who lost the capacity to name letters after being struck by a stone, and of another who forgot certain people after falling from a roof.

As humans senesce, arteries harden, eyesight deteriorates, vital organs lose capacity, reproduction stops, and the probability of death increases.

In practice, however, there are still several hurdles: For example, the lithium - sulphur battery rapidly loses capacity with repeated charging.

Tails in lizards and arms in starfish show an astounding ability to regrow, but mammals have partially lost the capacity to extensively regenerate body parts, Dr. Zhu said.

The researchers» attention was attracted by the fact that when EIIAGlc is defective Salmonella completely loses its capacity for intracellular replication and to spread throughout the organism.

IT FLIES in the face of natural selection, yet in humans it seems fixed and universal: at around age 50, not far past the midpoint of life, normal healthy women lose their capacity to bear children.

The mice developed arrhythmias as the heart's chambers lost the capacity to beat in time.

Südhof used genetic engineering to «knock - out» the synaptotagmin gene in mice, with the result that synapses from the forebrains of mice that lacked synaptotagmin lost their capacity for fast calcium - triggered release of neurotransmitter, thus confirming the importance of synaptotagmin in vivo.

«But because the cell maintains the ability to switch back, the prion switch allows cells to occupy a new niche without losing their capacity to occupy the old.»

The emotionally anorexic lose the capacity to maintain -LSB-...]

One of the most popular pieces of conventional wisdom in the national debate over education is that teachers lose the capacity to further improve student achievement after only a few years in the classroom — their effectiveness plateaus early in their careers.

And the 4.6 cubic - foot trunk loses no capacity is comparison with the soft - top model, even when the roof is stowed behind the seats.

I tend to recommend investing in an external battery rather than spares for your phone, but many of our readers love the idea of being able to replace the cell when it starts losing capacity two years down the line.

Not that the elderly inevitably lose the capacity to experience joy, but there is a somewhat grotesque quality to the physiognomies of these two.

Amazon Losing Capacity To Absorb CO2 Says Study.

Caroline Bielanska provides a case study demonstrating how lasting powers of attorney apply where an elderly relative loses capacity

«An LPA can be a positive and effective legal tool, which ensures someone's wishes are respected should they ever lose capacity.

Apple of course has been widely criticized for throttling CPU performance on older iPhone models when the battery loses capacity past a certain threshold.

Friends don't let friends lose their capacity for humanity.»