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Even theists will struggle to understand why a benevolent deity should want someone who is dying to remain alive until the last possible moment, no matter how severe the pain, discomfort, or loss of dignity may be.
The West’s gain, however, continues to cause enormous discomfort for ordinary Russians.
That being the case, we should not allow discomfort with ambiguity to be imposed on the bodies of children who are too young to speak or understand what’s going on.
Yet, given Europe’s growing economic dependence on East Asia, its interests are massively engaged – a mismatch that could cause the EU considerable discomfort in the medium term.
This is where discomfort meets danger.
If the ICC’s indictment now causes them discomfort, that is only because they did not anticipate that the Court would carry out the responsibilities that they themselves assigned to it.
LONDON--India's elections are like India's trains--lumbering along at no great speed, taking days before the destination is reached but, despite the discomfort along the way, reliable, sturdy and arriving at the station more or less on time.
The New Backlash Against GlobalizationPRINCETON – There was a palpable sense of discomfort at the latest G7 summit meeting in Ise-Shima, Japan.
Individual memory, beliefs, cultural background, and personal meaning all shape pain, so that an injury that is horrible to one person can be a minor discomfort to another.
To be sure, change creates discomfort, and may even cause tension and conflict.
People’s discomfort with the findings stemmed largely from faulty intuition: if earlier and more frequent screening increases the likelihood of detecting a possibly fatal cancer, then more screening is always desirable.
It reflects lingering discomfort with a global world of greater transparency, freedom of expression, and a diminished reliance on absolute sovereignty.
In many cases, the antibiotics were administered intravenously, which can cause discomfort.
Emerging-market fund managers feel a similar discomfort.
But, like any family secret that would cause us discomfort if faced directly, we Western women turn a blind eye to it.
And while Republican leaders, thinking that tax cuts take priority, are not ready to say aloud that they would be happy to see Trump gone, they have begun to make their discomfort with him somewhat more apparent.
On the immigrants’ side, there is more resentment against the host, more lassitude about the economy and politics, possible violence or an insistence on maintaining symbolic differences—ironically, in a society less able to accept them precisely because of its discomfort with difference.
Head banging or screaming can, for example, be misinterpreted as being part of the intellectual disability rather than an expression of discomfort or depression – a phenomenon known as “diagnostic overshadowing.”
When I began, in my teens, to meet with German contemporaries, there was an initial reticence and discomfort.
Summers, for his part, is right that “a liberal education that does not cause moments of acute discomfort is a failure.”
But he errs in not acknowledging that some students experience acute discomfort by being made to feel as though they do not belong.
A political neophyte is sitting in the White House, to the profound discomfort of establishment Republicans and Democrats.
The discomfort she felt when, as a cabinet minister, she tried to broach the subject was real and all too apparent.
None of them, therefore, has any reason to express discomfort with Turkey.
Williams, wrote a protest entitled “Made in Germany,” he began by recording his discomfort that the pencil he was using was a German product as well.
Another reason why we do not give to prevent disasters should be familiar to anyone who has ever delayed going to the dentist because the prospect of serious pain in the coming weeks or months just wasn’t as motivating as the reluctance to face some more immediate slight discomfort.
Madness expressed itself in degrees of mental impairment, the common symptoms of which were chronic discomfort in one’s environment (social maladjustment), uncertainty about oneself, oscillation between self-loathing and megalomania, and sometimes a complete loss of identity.
Because a clear sense of identity is a necessary condition for adequate mental functioning, malformation of identity leads to discomfort with one’s self and social maladjustment, reaching clinical proportions among the more fragile of us.
It was as natural for an Elizabethan Protestant to see the cause of his mental discomfort in a government overrun by Catholic sympathizers as it is for someone with a Muslim connection in the US today to see this cause in America as the embodiment of Western offenses against the faith.
Blaming one’s existential discomfort on external factors is a kind of self-therapy.
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