(n.) One's acts considered as fixing one's lot in the future existence. (Theos.) The doctrine of fate as the inflexible result of cause and effect; the theory of inevitable consequence.
Example Sentences:
(1) I happen to know that he’s hanging out with somebody that’s a purely poisonous predator now — and that’s karma,” said the Croz.
(2) A few monks came down, and gave a class on karma and why bad things happen to good people, and I found answers I had been looking for.
(3) [Belief in] karma makes people submissive; that’s how the country is run.” For Weerasethakul, this issue is no longer simply aesthetic: after the 2014 military coup , it’s one of political urgency.
(4) He's a firm believer in karma, and says that after plenty of rough times he's never been happier.
(5) It was only quite late in the day that I realised that somebody on my own team had been killed.” That someone was a 34-year-old Sherpa called Pasang Karma Sherpa.
(6) Hugh Lanning ( Chair, Palestine Solidarity Campaign), Maxine Peake, Brian Eno, Miriam Margolyes, Ken Loach, Benjamin Zephaniah, Paul Laverty, Ahdaf Soueif, Dr Karma Nabulsi
(7) If you are a “dead beat” dad then karma is a cruel mistress.
(8) In this case one can expect a greater emphasis on meditation, breathing and cleansing techniques, along with devotional practices such as mantra chanting, tuition in philosophy, and karma yoga (community service).
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Kandi Sherpa, widow of Pasang Karma Sherpa, who was killed in the 2014 avalanche on Everest, beneath portraits of her husband in her home in Nepal.
(10) We are treating it as if it’s cultural – we don’t want to offend people – and that is wrong.” Pointing out that numbers of teenage girls disappear every summer from British schools, Sanghera said that Karma Nirvana had recently written to every school in West Yorkshire inviting them to a free educational event, but that only two schools turned up.
(11) I wonder, however, how karma will play to a million children, orphaned by Aids?
(12) This year they renamed it the Pasang Karma trek and pledged to donate the profits to his widow, Kandi Sherpa and her three children.
(13) Karma Nirvana, a charity that supports victims, said its helpline dealt with more than 6,700 calls about forced marriage and honour-based violence last year, with its busiest months during the school holidays.
(14) For example: "I hope she has an unfortunate death like Stephen Gately as karma that she deserves for her 'sleazy lifestyle'."
(15) It would be just awful karma to throw a party and have somebody die there.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Grace Jones at New York’s Studio 54 nightclub in 1978.
(16) I really believe that will happen, I believe in karma and I believe in hard work and I don't believe in like, I don't know."
(17) The book's title isn't supposed to suggest feminism ever went away – groups as disparate as Justice for Women, The Fawcett Society, Southall Black Sisters and Karma Nirvana have been working for women's rights for decades now.
(18) These are: action (karma), direct perception, emptiness, and dependent arising.
(19) Patients currently presenting for treatment of mental disorder may describe their illness with reference to these concepts, but they also rely on other indigenous traditional concepts such as astrology, karma, the effects of other humoral relationships, such as semen loss and so forth; or they may rely on ideas derived from cosmopolitan medicine or both.
(20) If the prime minister lasts another two years, it will only be because both men are happy for her to absorb the toxic karma of Brexit negotiations before they make their move.
Successive
Definition:
(a.) Following in order or in uninterrupted course; coming after without interruption or interval; following one after another in a line or series; consecutive; as, the successive revolution of years; the successive kings of Egypt; successive strokes of a hammer.
(a.) Having or giving the right of succeeding to an inheritance; inherited by succession; hereditary; as, a successive title; a successive empire.
Example Sentences:
(1) Multiple stored energy levels were randomly tested and the percent successful defibrillation was plotted against the stored energy, and the raw data were fit by logistic regression.
(2) By presenting the case history of a man who successively developed facial and trigeminal neural dysfunction after Mohs chemosurgery of a PCSCC, this paper documents histologically the occurrence of such neural invasion, and illustrates the utility of gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance scanning in patient management.
(3) Previous attempts to purify this enzyme from the liquid endosperm of kernels of Zea mays (sweet corn) were not entirely successful owing to the lability of partially purified preparations during column chromatography.
(4) Recently, it has been shown that radiation therapy, alone or combined with chemotherapy, can be successful.
(5) The most successful dyes were phenocyanin TC, gallein, fluorone black, alizarin cyanin BB and alizarin blue S. Celestin blue B with an iron mordant is quite successful if properly handled to prevent gelling of solutions.
(6) An association of cyclophosphamide, fluorouracil and methotrexate already employed with success against solid tumours in other sites was used in the treatment of 62 patients with advanced tumours of the head and neck.
(7) The availability and success of changes in reproductive technology should lead to a reappraisal of the indications for hysterectomy, especially in young women.
(8) After a discussion of the therapeutic relationship, several coping strategies which have been used successfully by many women are described and therapeutic applications are offered.
(9) In this study, standby and prophylactic patients had comparable success and major complication rates, but procedural morbidity was more frequent in prophylactic patients.
(10) The result of this study demonstrates that both the "hat" and "inverted" type grafts are highly successful and satisfactory procedures.
(11) Different therapeutic success rates have been reported by various authors who used the same combination of therapy.
(12) The success in these two infertile patients who had already undergone lengthy psychotherapy is promising.
(13) Compared with conservative management, better long-term success (determined by return of athletic soundness and less evidence of degenerative joint disease) was achieved with surgical curettage of elbow subchondral cystic lesions.
(14) Fitch said there was “material risk to the success of the restructuring”.
(15) While they may always be encumbered by censorship in a way that HBO is not, the success of darker storylines, antiheroes and the occasional snow zombie will not be lost in an entertainment industry desperate to maintain its share of the audience.
(16) Attempts to eliminate congenital dislocation of the hip by detecting it early have not been completely successful.
(17) Thus, successful thrombolysis decreases the frequency of ventricular ectopic activity and late potentials in the early postinfarction phase.
(18) The successful treatment of the painful neuroma remains an elusive surgical goal.
(19) A previous trial into the safety and feasibility of using bone marrow stem cells to treat MS, led by Neil Scolding, a clinical neuroscientist at Bristol University, was deemed a success last year.
(20) First treatment consisted of six-hour infusions on six successive days.