Sentences with phrase «very human failing»

This, of course, is a very human failing: Lots of people believe that the problems they work on are more important than others.

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If the employer sees golden handcuffs as an incentive, then they communicate to that employee a very base relationship that fails to connect with a human experience.

This not only helps to explain religion's primordial, irrepressible, widespread, and seemingly inextinguishable character in the human experience, it also suggests that the skeptical Enlightenment, secular humanist, and New Atheist visions for a totally secular human world are simply not realistic — they are cutting against a very strong grain in the nature of reality's structure and so will fail to achieve their purpose.

The avoiding, in many times and places, has proved so difficult that a very large part of the human race failed to achieve it.

So much a part of man's being and so much a part of his history has his worship been, that any account of human life and any attempt to understand it that fails to reckon with this fact is by that very token a partial and even a mistaken account.

Dalgleish's failing as a human being... is that he is very careful to avoid commitment; detecting is in a sense an ideal job for him, because although he is constantly interfering with other people, finding things out about them and coming into their lives in a very dramatic way, he must remain detached — he'd be an unsatisfactory policeman otherwise.

When death comes, appraisal must also be made in the same way, for the total pattern of a given human life, made up as it is of a particular «routing» of occasions bound together in the fashion we indicated earlier, has also contributed, or failed to contribute, in its very totality, to the creative advance in good.

Very - low - birth - weight infants who can not be fed mother's own milk or donor human milk should be given preterm infant formula if they fail to gain weight despite adequate feeding with standard infant formula.

While their economies are relatively strong, these 12 states have very low state legitimacy (which includes democracy, corruption, political participation, and government effectiveness), fail to protect human rights and the rule of law (including press freedom, civil liberties, and political freedoms), lack a monopoly on the legitimate use of force (including internal conflict, military coups, riots, and protests), and have highly factionalized elites (including power struggles, flawed elections, and defectors).

I can say unequivocally that where every single other attempt at addressing my adrenal problems by dozens of very respectable doctors failed, Dr. Lam's protocol and guidance have taken me from nearly complete incapacity to being able to function as a semi-normal human being.

Every slip - up that Dwight makes, failing to cover his tracks, acting in a way that places others in danger, and basically diagramming a way for the killer's family to find him, comes from a very human moment.

Ebbinghaus was able to show, during the 1880s, that a failing of the human condition is that we quickly forget new information we learn if we don't do anything useful with it in a very short amount of time.

However, quite often when humans adopt a puppy very young — twelve weeks is not uncommon — they fail to continue the lessons of the mother dog by not creating the rules, boundaries, and limitations that all dogs need to be socialized.

But even if there were a way to test the tests, and in the very unlikely event that a test could be shown to have a high level of validity — by the standards, say of human diagnostic tests — at the very least half the dogs who «failed» would actually be misdiagnosed and would not have shown problem behaviors in a home.

If a dog falls down having an epileptic fit within half an hour, ten days, or a month of vaccination, the vet very often fails to suspect a link — even though vaccines are known to cause epilepsy, and the human Vaccine Damage Compensation Unit has paid up to # 30,000 to parents whose children were made epileptic by vaccines.

However, she was quoted in the Los Angeles Timesblog Opinion L.A. calling the show a «sick exhibit» that «represents the very worst impulses of the human imagination,» fails to «raise people's consciousness,» and «will encourage them to accept animal abuse.»

Obviously, the burden of proof is on the IPCC and activists like Trenberth to justify their claim that the warming is «very likely» due to human activities, which they have completely failed to do.

While those who stand in denial of climate change have failed in the last 15 years to produce a single, peer - reviewed scientific journal article that challenges the theory and evidence of human - induced climate change, mainstream media was, until very recently, covering the story (in more than half the cases, according to the academic researchers Boykoff and Boykoff) by quoting one scientist talking about the risks and one purported expert saying that climate change was not happening — or might actually be a good thing.

When combining all this very obvious evidence, one can fairly surmise that either global warming is not very «global» or that human CO2 emissions are not a very powerful influence on the Earth's climate or institutional, orthodoxy climate science has failed, badly - or maybe it's a lot of all three.