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Repetitive strain injuries ( RSIs ) are " injuries of the musculoskeletal and nervous systems that may be caused by repetitive tasks, forceful exertions, vibrations, mechanical compression ( pressing against hard surfaces ), or sustained or awkward positions ".. RSI is also known as cumulative trauma disorders, repetitive stress injuries, repetitive motion injuries or disorders, musculoskeletal disorders, and overuse syndromes.
He endeavours to get through, and succeeds in doing so, after much struggling as far as his shoulders ; but finding that the soot is compressed hard all around him, by his exertions, that he can recede no farther ; he then endeavours to move forward, but his attempts in this respect are quite abortive ; for the covering of the horizontal part of the Flue being stone, the sharp angle of which bears hard on his shoulders, and the back part of his head prevents him from moving in the least either one way or the other.
The quotation from von Haller may be translated from the Latin as follows: " Of course, firstly the remedy must be proved on a healthy body, without being mixed with anything foreign ; and when its odour and flavour have been ascertained, a tiny dose of it should be given and attention paid to all the changes of state that take place, what the pulse is, what heat there is, what sort of breathing and what exertions there are.
" The practice is intended to bring body and mind together, and no strong exertions or muscular contortions are involved.
His achievements in Tasmania are well documented, and the Court of Directors of the VDL Co in London noted his resignation ( March 1832 ) as follows: " Mr Hellyer, whose valuable services have been so great and whose name is so well known both to the Colonial Government and at home, by his unwearied exertions for the company, by his personal privation and risk in exploring the country, and by the admirable maps and plans which have been exhibited, has been recently appointed to an important situation under the Surveyor-General of the Colony ".
We are looking forward to building a monument to the civil struggle that depicts every step taken toward the goal of justice and the tireless exertions and passionate concern of these dedicated individuals .”

exertions and told
Writing in An t-Oglach ( Free State Army monthly ), March, 1931, he wrote “ I set to work and … succeeded in convincing a majority of the Committee of the necessity of our giving way for the moment .” When Clarke was told about Hobson ’ s exertions, and that the decision to accept Redmond ’ s nominees would not have been possible but for Hobson, he nearly broke down.

exertions and .
In their first two years in high school, Jewish boys in this town make strenuous exertions to win positions on the school teams.
By his zeal and exertions – for there were many conflicting interests to reconcile – he adjusted the affair in a manner at once creditable to his judgment and fortunate for his country.
While Agamemnon, the son of Atreus, was absent on his expedition against Troy, Aegisthus seduced Clytemnestra, the wife of Agamemnon, and was so wicked as to offer up thanks to the gods for the success with which his criminal exertions were crowned.
It may be that the example and success of St. Columba in Caledonia stimulated him to similar exertions.
If however it has already saved its life by self-castration and is again pursued, then it stands up and reveals that it offers no ground for their eager pursuit, and releases the hunters from all further exertions, for they esteem its flesh less.
On the fourth day after the death of Gelasius II, February I, 1119, owing mainly to the exertions of Cardinal Cuno, Guido was elected pope and assumed the title of Callistus II.
It was largely through the exertions of Innocent VI that the Treaty of Brétigny ( 1360 ) between France and England was brought about.
" These efforts were highly controversial at the time, but from the perspective of 2010, it appeared the Federal exertions had been the right decisions.
Theodore's years of exile, regular fasting, and exceptional exertions had taken their toll, and in 826 he became quite ill.
Ultimately, despite Chatham's exertions, Parliament took no action on his proposals.
Broglie, worn out by age and exertions, was soon replaced by Marshal Coigny.
Fraser and the Liberal-CP senators ... lacked the numbers to defer the Budget until the arrival in the Senate of Albert Patrick Field, whose arrival was not due to any decision by the Australian voters but to a decision by one of the rulers, the Whitlam-hating Bjelke-Petersen ... Whitlam for his part had decided even before the Budget was deferred to embark upon the bold, Cromwellian project of changing the Australian Constitution, not through the vote of the mass electorate ... but through prodigious personal exertions backed by the support of his parliamentary followers.
In April 1203 Pope Innocent III annulled both elections, and Geoffrey of Henlaw was appointed to the See of St. David's, despite the strenuous exertions of Gerald.
Professor Davies tells us that Gerald, whom he calls " an admirable story-teller ", is the only source for some of the most famous of the Welsh folk tales including the declaration of the old man of Pencader to Henry II which concludes Descriptio Cambriae: " This nation, O King, may now, as in former times, be harassed, and in a great measure weakened and destroyed by your and other powers, and it will also prevail by its laudable exertions, but it can never be totally subdued through the wrath of man, unless the wrath of God shall concur.
Despite two previous marriages, Louis had no living sons, and sought to produce an heir ; but he died on 1 January 1515, less than three months after marrying Mary, reputedly worn out by his exertions in the bedchamber.
The Encyclopædia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, observes, " Thus that scientific conspiracy of nations which is one of the noblest fruits of modern civilization was by his exertions first successfully organized.
Through the exertions of the legate, the deposition of Arnulf was finally pronounced illegal.
Louis died on 1 January 1515, less than three months after he married Mary, reputedly worn out by his exertions in the bedchamber.
Nearchus married the daughter of Barsine and Mentor ( A 7. 4. 6 ), and received a crown as recognition of his exertions ( A 7. 5. 6 ).

are and told
When I show up he will know you are a good wife to have told him about it ''.
Accidental war is so sensitive a subject that most of the people who could become directly involved in one are told just enough so they can perform their portions of incredibly complex tasks.
But it is characteristic of him, we are told, `` his little artifice '', to be able to introduce `` into a fairly vulgar and humorous piece of hackwork a sudden phrase of genuine creative art ''.
So all-important are ideas, we are told, that persons successful in business and happy in social life usually fall into two classes: those who invent new ideas of their own, and those who borrow, beg, or steal from others.
Man, we are told, is endowed with reason and is capable of distinguishing good from bad.
I have known some men and women who said that the selves they are told about or even remember seem utter strangers to them now ; ;
I told him you are on orders from the Home Army to get inside Majdanek so you can make a report to the government in exile in London ''.
But his business also grew, and we are told that Mr. Brown found it increasingly difficult to devote as much time to his creative thinking as his inclinations led him to desire.
`` You are bound to get involved with people when you have children '', Fran had told me at our first meeting, `` so it is good to know that those with whom you get involved are not just dreary little housewives and dull husbands, but People Who Do Things ''.
`` If you are trying to get us out of the brothel, the dustbin, the kitchen sink, and the tawdry living-room, you are probably wasting your time '', Moreland told me.
The prevailing view in the industry was summed up in 1912 by a group of auto makers who told a Senate committee: `` The exceedingly unsatisfactory and uselessly expensive conditions, including delays surrounding legal disputes, particularly in patent litigation, are items of industrial burden which must be written large in figures of many millions of dollars of industrial waste ''.
It seems to be indispensable to the national self-esteem that the Negro be considered either as a kind of ward ( in which case we are told how many Negroes, comparatively, bought Cadillacs last year and how few, comparatively, were lynched ), or as a victim ( in which case we are promised that he will never vote in our assemblies or go to school with our kids ).
`` The news of their experiments reaches the farmers who, forgetting that birds are the most efficient natural enemies of insects and rodents, are encouraged to try to get rid of all birds that occasionally peck their grapes or their blueberries '', Buchheister told the delegates.
`` Tell your company there are four of us here with guns '', the elder man told Rickards.
On my first Guy Fawkes Day here, I found Catholics as well as non-Catholics celebrating with the traditional fireworks and bonfires, and was told that most Englishmen either do not know or are not concerned with the historical significance of the day.
We are often told that the Comedie has, unfortunately, life-contracts with old actors who are both mediocre and lazy, drawing their pay without much acting but probably doing real service to the Comedie by staying off the stage.
Using what became one of van Vogt's recurring themes, it told the story of a 9-year-old superman living in a world in which his kind are slain by Homo sapiens.
Of this desert many strange and unbelievable marvels are told by those who pretend to have penetrated it.
: Of his final death or disappearance ( 738 A. D .) many terrible and conflicting things are told.

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