A life endured in total immobility is, though conceivable, wholly unsatisfactory. |
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When spinal deformity, weakness, or immobility is present, height measurement is difficult and inaccurate. |
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One of the major consequences of stroke is immobility, as the parts of the brain involved in controlling movement are damaged. |
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What they are tired of is the immobility and politically correct constraints over economic debate that have left unemployment at 8.5 percent. |
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They desire a stillness and immobility they can never attain, for the activity of the world never ceases. |
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He agreed that the immobility caused by her illness could have played a part in her decline. |
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Her very immobility, her stillness in a world running after vanity, makes her a heroine. |
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Public transport was finally restored on Thursday, after three days immobility. |
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Abnormalities of blood flow or venous stasis normally occur after prolonged immobility or confinement to bed. |
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Unmoving, but in her immobility lay a new freedom, one that was fundamental but unfathomable, simple but unknowable, pure but ungraspable. |
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Someone as active as he would not have been able to cope with a long period of immobility. |
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He had suffered a fatal blood clot, likely to have been brought on by periods of sustained immobility caused by Parkinson's disease. |
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But it will fall back to a level of immobility and indecisiveness that can only add grist to the mill of the neoliberals. |
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Residents of the former East Germany are making up for the years of enforced immobility by becoming the world's most adventurous travellers. |
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The flies, despite their immobility, seem to dance playfully like marionettes on a stage. |
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She presented with pain and stiffness and immobility of the neck and upper back. |
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It's often called paradoxical sleeping because it's characterized by heightened encephalic activity but also muscular immobility. |
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Bone demineralization and generalized muscular deconditioning occur in all people who experience bed rest, immobility, or sedentary lifestyles. |
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Prolonged immobility and cramped seating are present in many forms of travel. |
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Over doing it can cause excessive pain and immobility, thwarting your training program. |
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These include problems of servicing loans, high maintenance and repair costs, and geographical and social immobility caused by unsaleability. |
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He was drunken to the point of incoherence and damaged to almost physical immobility. |
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One of Feldman's goals was to create the illusion of immobility in his music, just as painter Mark Rothko created the same illusion in his megalithic canvases. |
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Periods of immobility, lack of exercise and prolonged use of steroids can increase the risk of osteoporosis. |
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In contrast, this study indicates that Jamaican users universally perceive cannabis as an energizer, a motive power, never as an enervator that leads to apathy and immobility. |
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A tumour consumes her like a paschal candle and induces her to complete immobility, by that time mute, deaf and blind. |
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The spatial environment and the motivity or immobility of the bodies which pass through both come into play in the work. |
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First from immobility, the instructor remaining in lunge and parrying back to quarte. |
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The government's complete immobility, deafness and incapability to understand reality and act accordingly was very scary. |
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As she approached her 80s she became tottery, broke her hip as a result of a bad fall, and was soon reduced to immobility and incontinence. |
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This fraction of a second of immobility is enough to convince him that there are no more runners on the track. |
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The patient may remain in a state of almost complete immobility, often assuming statuesque positions. |
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Also, in the case of immobility it is of great benefit to be able to go out of the house, to meet up with other people and to visit green parks. |
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The author addresses issues including the power of private production companies, the immobility of the State and the omnipotence of money. |
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The model's immobility contrasts with the undulating hair and beard, echoed and amplified in the hallucinatory arabesques of the background. |
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By the time they go into nursing care, their condition has often deteriorated to include immobility, incontinence and dementia. |
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After decades of relative immobility, the party landscape started to shift in the early 1990s, when the SVP gained some ground on its rivals. |
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A long period of immobility puts extra stress on your muscles and joints and painful pressure on your nerves. |
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The risk factors are known: age, radical life events, social isolation, immobility and loss of autonomy. |
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Because of the immobility of the pilot, a fire would have had serious consequences. |
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They are further separated by career immobility arising from natural inertia and fear of the unknown. |
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Stiffness and joint pain often occur after long periods of immobility, with aging or with menopause. |
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Traditional education patterns no longer meet the needs of workers and contribute to their immobility and obsolescence. |
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Fatigue, immobility, frustration and anger are common in patients with chronic pain, making it difficult to communicate. |
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Conversely, demographic immobility can also cause talent shortages within countries. |
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Confined within the window frame, this complex amalgam becomes an image of worldly flux contrasting sharply with the quiet immobility of the recumbent figure. |
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As the skills gap between top and bottom widens, immobility should harden more. |
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But the shark's sudden movement belied its previous immobility. |
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A twig cracked loudly underfoot and he froze into immobility. |
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Sorry about the immobility, it was a strong dose they gave you this time. |
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A dedicated bus-only lane would cure this pointless immobility. |
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He spent the rest of the war in a military hospital unable to walk, and suffered pain and partial immobility for the rest of his life. |
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In disasters such as floods and some hurricanes there is a distinctly long period of impact, which can be separated from a subsequent period of stocktaking or immobility. |
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To look at Beatrice as woman would be to retrocede to a past of immobility. |
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She assimilates the extraordinary andsalvific power of the glorious body: levitation, superhuman strength, invulnerability to fire, immobility and the gift of performing miracles. |
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In Musée Grévin, the well-known figures play with the immobility of their wax lookalikes, here are unique and fun images of Madame De Fontenay or Lorie. |
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All the uncertainty surrounding the economic recovery resulted in a great deal of inertia and immobility, and required governments and central banks to act in order to breathe some vitality into the economy. |
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Standing for long periods, extended periods of immobility or a weakened circulatory system due to aging? The reasons are numerous and their consequences always unpleasant: heavy legs, tiredness when walking, swelling? |
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Different models came to existence over the course of years, but always based on the same logic: handling a miniature in a frame of foam, ensuring a gentle immobility through transportation. |
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There can be the physical afflictions of progressive immobility and failing memory and senses, but often far harder to bear is the dismissive attitude of society. |
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One of the worst threats to this is the immobility of governments that are unwilling to move forward and overly sensitive to pressure from lobbies such as the oil patch. |
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Despite efforts to redirect the aid towards areas in need, logistical immobility prevented activities from being cancelled or redirected in good time. |
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And as they add immobility is not only regarded in terms of geography, but also the inability to adjust to different people and their thoughts, so a kind of immovability. |
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Everything is always privileged to lie where he puts it down or where chance happens to place it, to mature in situ so that his glance can come to rest on the immobility of these surroundings he has brought to pass. |
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After a week of concerts in England, Casals decides not to play again in this country in protest against the Allied countries' immobility with respect to General Franco's regime. |
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However, a number of indicators, such as market fragmentation, price rigidity and customer immobility, suggest that competition in the EU retail banking market may not have been working effectively. |
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It brings also the problem of the immobility because zazen should be motionless, the body should stay motionless, the posture should stay motionless. |
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Glance at data on income inequality and economic immobility and you'd be forgiven for concluding that America is closer to oligarchy than workers' paradise. |
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Oil, he suggests, has become a drug, lulling governments into a false illusion of comfortable immobility. Other chapters deal with security, border disputes and Iran's military capabilities. |
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Because of its small size and virtual immobility, the auricle in humans is less useful in sound gathering and direction finding than it is in many animals. |
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An increase in muscle tone, or spasticity, is a common symptom of the condition, causing involuntary spasms, immobility, disturbed sleep and pain. |
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Killer whales can induce tonic immobility in sharks and rays by holding them upside down, rendering them helpless and incapable of injuring the whale. |
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The postembryos of most species exhibit long periods of immobility interrupted at lengthy intervals by feeble contractions of the legs and rudimentary mouthparts. |
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Then he realized, by the immobility of the other children and by the way they avoided looking at him, that it was he who was selected for punishment. |
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