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suffering and another
The force fell back on Essex and, after suffering another defeat at Benfleet, coalesced with Hastein's force at Shoebury.
For instance, a person who sustains bodily injury through the negligence of another may sue for medical costs, pain, suffering, loss of earnings or earning capacity, mental and / or emotional distress, loss of quality of life, disfigurement and more.
Thus another approach is to incorporate the notion of suffering into the definition.
On May 26, 2010, Coleman was admitted to Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in Provo, Utah in critical condition after falling down the stairs at his home in Santaquin and hitting his head, possibly after another seizure, and suffering an epidural hematoma.
Other classifications used also include: ḥasan ( good ), which refers to an otherwise ṣaḥīḥ report suffering from minor deficiency, or a weak report strengthened due to numerous other corroborating reports ; and munkar ( denounced ) which is a report that is rejected due to the presence of an unreliable transmitter contradicting another more reliable narrator.
Stephen had intended to sail on the same ship but changed his mind at the last moment and got off to await another vessel, either out of concern for overcrowding on board the ship, or because he was suffering from diarrhoea.
Leaving the shiva house is permitted when traveling between two locations where shiva is being observed by different members of the family, in cases of pikuach nefesh, i. e., a human life is in danger, whether that of the mourner or someone else ; when something must be done to prevent another person from suffering and no one else can do it, such as caring for a child or an elderly or sick person ; to feed or care for one's animals if there is no one else to do so ; if another relative for whom the mourner is required to sit shiva dies, the mourner may attend the funeral.
Nick, suffering another overload, blames Kate for the incident, since she, following Hearing Aid policy, cut off a call from someone attempting to warn Precipice.
The Book of Job offers two answers: suffering is a test, and you will be rewarded later for passing it ; another that God is not held accountable to human conceptions of morality.
Princess Margaret died in the King Edward VII Hospital, London, on 9 February 2002 at the age of 71, after suffering another stroke.
After despairing about how to spend it, and then suffering another humiliating rejection when he calls a girl to ask her out, Marty finally decides to attend a lonelyhearts social at the Waverly Ballroom.
In another famous account, Odin hanged himself for nine nights from Yggdrasil, the World Tree that unites all the realms of existence, suffering from hunger and thirst and finally wounding himself with a spear until he gained the knowledge of runes for use in casting powerful magic.
: For the purpose of this Declaration, torture is defined as the deliberate, systematic or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons acting alone or on the orders of any authority, to force another person to yield information, to make a confession, or for any other reason.
One hospital may provide full emergency room care, while another sees patients who have broken limbs, minor injuries and yet another sees patients suffering cold, flu, etc.
Furthermore, Louis XVIII could not join the campaign against Napoleon in the south of France because he was suffering from another case of gout.
Wittgenstein and Blücher were in danger of suffering another defeat on the scale of Austerlitz, but the green and exhausted French troops, who had been marching and fighting all day long, could not follow through.
* Emily Dickinson's poem " Apparently With No Surprise " depicts God as approving of suffering in the world, relating the tale of a flower " beheaded " by a late frost as the sun " measure off another day for an approving God ".
The CPC was forced on the Long March after suffering heavy losses and then set up another base in Yan ' an, Shaanxi.
To take another example, one cinema may have 90 % of the movie market, but if movie theatres compete against video stores, pubs and nightclubs then people are less likely to be suffering due to market dominance.
Philosopher and sociologist Theodor Adorno defined schadenfreude as “ largely unanticipated delight in the suffering of another which is cognized as trivial and / or appropriate ”.
Samuel Johnson pointed out that an appeal to conscience should not allow the law to bring unjust suffering upon another.
With few exceptions, a simple negative ( οὐ or μή ) following another negative ( e. g., οὐδείς, no one ) results in an affirmation: οὐδείς οὐκ ἔπασχε τι (" No one was not suffering ") means more simply " Everyone was suffering ".

suffering and person
Often the relatives plead with him not to do this, since they know they may never see the person again .</ br > Rieux works to combat the plague simply because he is a doctor and his job is to relieve human suffering.
; Cruelty to persons under sixteen: Section 1 ( 1 ) of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 provides that it is an offence for a person who has attained the age of sixteen years, and who has responsibility for a child or young person under that age, to, amongst other things, wilfully assault that child or young person, or to cause or procure that child or young person to be assaulted, in a manner likely to cause him unnecessary suffering or injury to health.
The completion of these assignments – which can be as simple as a person suffering from depression attending some kind of social event – indicates a dedication to treatment compliance and a desire to change.
However, focusing on this approach to defining euthanasia may also lead to counterexamples: such definitions may encompass killing a person suffering from an incurable disease for personal gain ( such as to claim an inheritance ), and commentators such as Tom Beauchamp & Arnold Davidson have argued that doing such would constitute " murder simpliciter " rather than euthanasia.
If a person is suffering such severe effects of hypoglycemia that they cannot ( due to combativeness ) or should not ( due to seizures or unconsciousness ) be given anything by mouth, medical personnel such as EMTs and paramedics, or in-hospital personnel can establish IV access and give intravenous dextrose, concentrations varying depending on age ( infants are given 2 ml / kg dextrose 10 %, children are given dextrose 25 %, and adults are given dextrose 50 %).
A Harvard Medical School guide states that the quality of life of interstitial cystitis patients resembles that of a person on kidney dialysis or suffering from chronic cancer pain.
Some Australian states require that the person is a danger to the society or themselves ; other states only require that the person be suffering from a mental illness that requires treatment.
Likewise, various parties in a dispute may be pointing blame at each other, rather than fixing the problem, and leaving the person or group suffering from the problem to continue to suffer in limbo.
A manic episode is defined in the American Psychiatric Association's diagnostic manual as a period of seven or more days ( or any period if admission to hospital is required ) of unusually and continuously effusive and open elated or irritable mood, where the mood is not caused by drugs / medication or a medical illness ( e. g., hyperthyroidism ), and ( a ) is causing obvious difficulties at work or in social relationships and activities, or ( b ) requires admission to hospital to protect the person or others, or ( c ) the person is suffering psychosis.
Behrman indicates early in his memoir that he sees himself not as a person suffering from an uncontrollable disabling illness, but as a director of the movie that is his vivid and emotionally alive life.
As Lenin neared death after suffering strokes, he declared in his testament of December 1922 an order to remove Joseph Stalin from his post as General Secretary and replace him by " some other person who is superior to Stalin only in one respect, namely, in being more tolerant, more loyal, more polite and more attentive to comrades ".
The term nymphomania was created by modern psychology as referring to a " desire to engage in human sexual behavior at a level high enough to be considered clinically significant ", nymphomaniac being the person suffering from such a disorder.
Common reasons that are given in answer to the question why are all not healed include: God teaches through suffering, healing is not always immediate, lack of faith on the part of the person needing healing, and personal sin in one's life ( however, this does not mean that all illness is caused by personal sin ).
A person may become an asymptomatic carrier of typhoid fever, suffering no symptoms, but capable of infecting others.
::" Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals, for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast's pleasures ; no intelligent human being would consent to be a fool, no instructed person would be an ignoramus, no person of feeling and conscience would be selfish and base, even though they should be persuaded that the fool, the dunce, or the rascal is better satisfied with his lot than they are with theirs … A being of higher faculties requires more to make him happy, is capable probably of more acute suffering, and is certainly accessible to it at more points, than one of an inferior type ; but in spite of these liabilities, he can never really wish to sink into what he feels to be a lower grade of existence … It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied ; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.

suffering and is
it is a spectacle absolutely painful, an epiphany of the suffering flesh unredeemed by spirit, untouched by any spirit other than abasement and humiliation.
that is, he is suspect, guilty, punishable, as is anyone in Mann's stories who produces illusion, and this is true even though the constant elements of the artist-nature, technique, magic, guilt and suffering, are divided in this story between Jacoby and Lautner.
But the highroad, according to the description of its traffic, belongs to life as it is lived in unawareness of death, while the way to the churchyard belongs to some other sort of life: a suffering form, an existence wholly comprised in the awareness of death.
One is Greece is not yet suffering from overpopulation.
There is indeed a moral responsibility on man himself, for his own soul's sake, to respect lower life and to avoid the infliction of suffering, but this viewpoint Schweitzer rejects.
Krim says, in short, that he is a suffering Jew.
The only possible answer to that is, I am a suffering Franco-Irishman.
More important is the simple human point that all men suffer, and that it is a kind of anthropological-religious pride on the part of the Jew to believe that his suffering is more poignant than mine or anyone else's.
If so, then it is clear that in saying the suffering was bad we are not expressing our feelings only.
Most of us would say that in this delight at the killing of others or the causing of suffering there is something very unfitting.
Boyer is suffering from a stiff neck.
The empathy-altruism hypothesis basically states that psychological altruism does exist and is evoked by the empathic desire to help someone who is suffering.
People with empathic concern help others in distress even when exposure to the situation could be easily avoided, whereas those lacking in empathic concern avoid helping unless it is difficult or impossible to avoid exposure to another's suffering.
Love and compassion are components of all forms of Buddhism, and are focused on all beings equally: love is the wish that all beings be happy, and compassion is the wish that all beings be free from suffering.
It is even said that the distinction between self and other is part of the root cause of our suffering.
A simple illustration of such cause and effect is the case of experiencing the effects of what I cause: if I cause suffering, then as a natural consequence I will experience suffering ; if I cause happiness, then as a natural consequence I will experience happiness.

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