(1) The low population densities and impermanent settlements of Amazonian Indians are often interpreted as adaptations to a fauna that offers limited protein resources and is rapidly depleted by hunting.
(2) For the most part, my comfort with impermanence has outweighed the discomfort of sleeping on someone’s used couch.
(3) A devoted Buddhist, he chatted away about impermanence and reaching higher states of being.
(4) Along the way if there are points of pain, you observe them impersonally as your scan reaches those points, knowing they are impermanent.
(5) A performing art, it has always been uniquely difficult to preserve and reproduce (the tragedy of its impermanence was brought home this summer by the deaths of Pina Bausch and Merce Cunningham).
(6) In 1989, when Gehry was awarded the prestigious Pritzker prize, the citation read: "His sometimes controversial, but always arresting body of work, has been variously described as iconoclastic, rambunctious and impermanent, but the jury, in making this award, commends this restless spirit that has made his buildings a unique expression of contemporary society and its ambivalent values."
(7) The alignment of this tooth with the toothcomb is a strictly impermanent situation and cannot be taken into consideration when determining homologies of the teeth of the toothcomb.
(8) Calling these children "detainees" is a way of suggesting to all who read that they are little more than impermanent prisoners, strangers in a strange land who we'll soon send on their way.
(9) Franzen, who avoids the internet while he writes, has previously laid out his reasons for disliking ebooks : reading a book on a screen feels too impermanent, he believes, and he worries "that it's going to be very hard to make the world work if there's no permanence like that.
(10) In particular, there is the stoicism that teaches us to take mortality and the impermanence of all things as cues to detach ourselves from the ups and downs of life and embrace an accepting tranquility.
(11) If you take that permanence and then point out all the impermanence within it, that becomes a really fascinating topic, I think."
(12) Zeldin said: "It's very dehumanising that people are being made to work and live in complete impermanence.
(13) Intensive study of 5 of the most seriously affected villages over a period of 3 years has shown that there is a delicate balance between the parasite and its human host in this area, largely as a result of the impermanent nature of the principal transmission sites, i.e., ponds and the smaller riverine pools.
(14) Further, he notes that unless adolescents' problems are understood in the context of improperly functioning families, any help provided will be impermanent at best.
(15) It demands an individual preoccupation of the therapist with the basic questions regarding his own life and its impermanence.
(16) We describe a congenital deformity of the foot which is characterised by calcaneus at the ankle and valgus at the subtalar joint; spontaneous improvement does not occur and serial casting results in incomplete or impermanent correction of the deformities.
(17) We learnt about the impermanence of health and the vicissitudes of life.
(18) The problems of controlling and ultimately eradicating pertussis are addressed in the face of the apparent impermanence of vaccine immunity, and the limited protection offered while it lasts.
(19) Today's youth lives in a "throw away society" characterized by an impermanence of both objects and human relations--which works counter to traditional health values and practices.
(20) Franzen, whose stories about dysfunctional middle-class families hold up a mirror to contemporary America, has hit out at new media culture before, denigrating ebooks for their impermanence and branding Twitter the "ultimate irresponsible medium" .
Temporary
Definition:
(a.) Lasting for a time only; existing or continuing for a limited time; not permanent; as, the patient has obtained temporary relief.
Example Sentences:
(1) Schistosomiasis control currently relies primarily on chemotherapy which is both expensive and temporary.
(2) The temporary loss of a family member through deployment brings unique stresses to a family in three different stages: predeployment, survival, and reunion.
(3) Known as the Little House in the Garden, this temporary structure lasted over 50 years.
(4) Electromagnetic interference presented as inhibition and resetting of the demand circuitry of a ventricular-inhibited temporary external pacemaker in a 70-year-old man undergoing surgical implantation of a permanent bipolar pacemaker generator and lead.
(5) The surgical procedure, using a dispensable tendon, could be directly associated to the sutures of the proximal injuries of the cubital nerve as a temporary palliative.
(6) Safety is increased through temporary discontinuation or dosage reduction of lithium in special risk situations.
(7) Percutaneous tenotomy performed only in patients recurring after temporary cure, drops the rate of recurrences to 13%.
(8) Temporary threshold shifts increased for the first eight hours of exposure and then were asymptotic.
(9) Deafferentation of certain brain regions in adult animals results in (1) the disappearance of degenerating axon terminals and (2) in the temporary persistence of vacant postsynaptic sites.
(10) Poults 3 weeks and older developed temporary tracheal resistance to intranasal challenge following inoculation of either Artvax vaccine or formalin-inactivated Bordetella avium bacterin by the intranasal and eyedrop routes.
(11) Freezing may be valuable while quality control procedures are performed following radiolabeling as well as if temporary storage or shipment of radioantibodies prior to patient dosing is undertaken.
(12) The blockage of the tubular system by the calcium oxalate deposits leads to a temporary reversible increase in serum urea and serum creatinine.
(13) The change in the magnitude of conditioned salivation, latencies of secretion and motor reaction was temporary, and by the end of the third postoperative period their initial magnitudes were restored.
(14) But perhaps the most striking example of how differently much of the world sees London – and the importance of religion – from the way the city plainly sees itself came from the US, where Donald Trump caused uproar with a call for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the country.
(15) But this regime is by no means a temporary regime,” Brandis said.
(16) We conclude that infusion system malfunction resulting in interruption of insulin flow is a common occurrence, is often associated with temporary hyperglycemia, and may account for some of the increased incidence of diabetic ketoacidosis previously described in these patients.
(17) The striking improvements in carbohydrate and lipid metabolism in diabetic and non-diabetic Aborigines after a temporary reversion to a traditional hunter-gatherer lifestyle highlight the potentially reversible nature of the detrimental effects of lifestyle change, particularly in young people who have not yet developed diabetes.
(18) Temporary hypertensive increases in blood pressure, or variations in blood pressure when there was an already existing hypertension, in which the blood pressure either moved within the limits of hypertensive blood pressure values or temporarily returned to normal, occurred in 129 men ages 23-85, in whom repeated measurements of the blood pressure and pulse wave rate (PWG) were carried out in the aorta and iliac artery in the course of a longitudinal study over years.
(19) Certain of the schistosomes were covered with a dense mass of interconnected blood platelets resembling a temporary haemostatic plug but not a blood clot.
(20) Emergency indications to operate have become exceptional since the temporary control of inappropriate secretions by pharmacologic agents is available.