Li says that due to accumulation of karma the human spirit upon death will reincarnate over and over again, until the karma is paid off or eliminated through cultivation, or the person is destroyed due to the bad deeds he has done.

Despite the strict guidelines, some exceptions have occurred: Bionic Commando ( though swastikas were eliminated in the US version ), Smash TV and Golgo 13: Top Secret Episode contained human violence, the latter also containing implied sexuality and tobacco use ; River City Ransom and Taboo: The Sixth Sense contained nudity, and the latter also contained religious images, as did Castlevania II and III.

After over two decades of fighting smallpox, the WHO declared in 1980 that the disease had been eradicated – the first disease in history to be eliminated by human effort.

This reverse engineering process is wasteful in terms of human and other resources and can be minimized or eliminated using CM.

The list of deities was both shrunk and expanded ; the thirty eight non-human deities in the From the Ashes boxed set were eliminated and non-human concerns assigned to a handful of human deities, but the list of human deities was expanded from twenty four to fifty four.

Electric motors applied in agriculture eliminated human and animal muscle power from such tasks as handling grain or pumping water.

In 1999 Krings et al., eliminated problems in molecular clocking postulated by Nei, 1992 when it was found the mtDNA sequence for the same region was substantially different from the MRCA relative to any human sequence.

* The 2002 film Equilibrium depicts a dystopian society which has eliminated human emotion, and burned all cultural influences that can cause emotion.

She introduced a subtle flaw in the computer system governing food distribution, which eliminated her own position as " Senior Liator " along with the jobs of 49 other human beings.

The high-resolution chronology of the changes supports the hypothesis that human hunting alone eliminated the megafauna, and that the subsequent change in flora was most likely a consequence of the elimination of browsers and an increase in fire.

When asked whether he was a deva or a human, he replied that he had eliminated the deep-rooted unconscious traits that would make him either one, and should instead be called a Buddha ; one who had grown up in the world but had now gone beyond it, as a lotus grows from the water but blossoms above it, unsoiled.

Eager to dissociate salvation from human effort and give all credit to God's mercy, Lutheranism eliminated any active role for sinners in acquiring their own justification ( see monergism ).

He demonized many women as " witches ", and called for homosexuals ( or " sodomites " as he called them ) to be either completely isolated from society or eliminated from the human community.

Hall reasoned that, with very few exceptions, flight distance and critical distance have been eliminated in human reactions, and thus interviewed hundreds of people to determine modified criteria for human interactions.

While the loss of human life in Chicago is massive, the battle is a major victory for the Autobots as they eliminated most of the Decepticon army on Earth despite there being some still scattered around the globe and the entire Decepticon command structure was destroyed with all of its members killed in the battle.

An example of this is the worldwide eradication of smallpox in 1980 — declared by the WHO as the first disease in human history to be completely eliminated by deliberate health care interventions.

Machine tapping is faster, and generally more accurate because human error is eliminated.

The first contact with humanity ends the human golden era of peace, where even history has been rewritten in a non-violent whitewash ; organized violence was virtually eliminated, being reduced to roughly 1 in 1000 people, and there was no interpersonal violence, except occasional outbursts in the asteroid belt where medical and psychological care were spread thinly.

" Second, a number of AFL-CIO departments ( including health and safety, education, and civil and human rights ) must be merged or eliminated.

Bone marrow ablation is a process whereby the human bone marrow cells are eliminated in preparation for a bone marrow transplant.

While much wetland habitat has been eliminated due to human activity, new muskrat habitat has been created by the construction of canals or irrigation channels, and the muskrat remains common and widespread.

Even though T. solium could be eliminated through mass treatment of human and porcine population, it is not sustainable.

After establishing Granville Town, disease and hostility from the indigenous people eliminated the first group of colonists and destroyed their settlement.

Treatment depends on the type of cardiomyopathy and condition of disease, but may include medication ( conservative treatment ) or iatrogenic / implanted pacemakers for slow heart rates, defibrillators for those prone to fatal heart rhythms, ventricular assist devices ( LVADs ) for severe heart failure, or ablation for recurring dysrhythmias that cannot be eliminated by medication or cardioversion.

As a result, disease, war and pollution are nearly eliminated.

Regions of Japan used to have endemic strongyloidiasis, but control programs have eliminated the disease.

Elms have been able to survive and to reproduce in areas where the disease had eliminated old trees, although most of these young elms eventually succumb to the disease at a relatively young age.

B. S. Haldane wondered why the dominant mutation that causes Huntington's disease remained in the population, and why natural selection had not eliminated it.

Cuba declared the disease eliminated in the 1990s, and in 2004 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that both the congenital and acquired forms of rubella had been eliminated from the United States.

Corridors may also help facilitate the re-establishment of populations that have been reduced or eliminated due to random events ( such as fires or disease ).

Leprosy, also known as Hansen's disease, was officially eliminated at the national level in China by 1982, meaning prevalence is lower than 1 in 100, 000.

Modern occupational hygiene practices have eliminated the working conditions which caused this disease.

These polymorphisms are seemingly never eliminated by natural selection ; the reason came from a study of disease statistics.

In 1969, an outbreak of the disease originated in Afghanistan, travelling westwards and promoting a mass vaccination plan, which, by 1972, had eliminated rinderpest in all areas of Asia except for Lebanon and India ; both countries were the site of further occurrences of the disease in the 1980s.

They function as signal transducing molecules that have the unique effect of modulating the immune system, turning it up when the body comes under attack from pathogens or other disease agents, and damping it when the danger is eliminated or neutralized.

hunger, overwork, dirt, illiteracy and disease could be eliminated within a few generations " — a threat to the Party ’ s perpetuity, because, ".

With early detection, and dietary management, the negative effects of the disease can be largely eliminated.

Through his efforts, the disease was virtually eliminated from the Island of Gozo.

Thus, if this level can be exceeded by vaccination, the disease can be eliminated.

The World Health Organization is the international body that certifies whether a disease has been eliminated from a country or eradicated from the world.

To say that science had reduced many such fears merely reiterates the obvious and frequent statement that science eliminated much of magic and superstition.

The right to leave legacies should be substantially reduced and ultimately eliminated.

As a result, certain categories of bugs are eliminated or substantially reduced:

These side-effects can frequently be reduced or eliminated with antiemetic drugs.

The initial 15th edition ( 1974 – 1985 ) was faulted for having reduced or eliminated coverage of children's literature, military decorations, and the French poet Joachim du Bellay ; editorial mistakes were also alleged, such as inconsistent sorting of Japanese biographies.

For this reason most countries eased or eliminated their trade tariffs in preparation to join the EEC, but experienced declining revenue which reduced the importance of EFTA.

For example, many key failure points associated with wire and connectors will be eliminated thus hours spent troubleshooting wires and connectors will be reduced.

$ 2. 5 billion in tariffs were eliminated or reduced.

$ 40 billion in tariffs were eliminated or reduced.

In exceptional situations, such as war, occupation, revolution or a coup d ' état, constitutional institutions, including the symbolically crucial head of state, may be reduced to a figurehead or be suspended in favor of an emergency office ( such as the original Roman Dictator ) or eliminated by a new " provisionary " regime, such as a collective of the junta type, or removed by an occupying force, such as a military governor ( an early example being the Spartan Harmost ).

Thus, infection rates in small-world networks can be reduced somewhat if interactions between individuals within infected hubs are eliminated ( Figure 1 ).

The expense of hiring outside musicians for a project can be reduced or eliminated, and complex productions can be realized on a system as small as a single MIDI workstation, a synthesizer with integrated keyboard and sequencer.

This can be eliminated either by adjusting one of the pair's values randomly up or down by a small amount, or reduced to an arbitrarily low probability by choosing a sufficiently wide range of random number choices.

The Constitutional Reform Act 2005 eliminated the Lord Chancellor's judicial functions and also reduced the office's salary below that of the Prime Minister.

The likelihood of other possibilities do not need to be eliminated altogether but they must be so reduced that the greater probability lies with the defendant.

Mainlobe jamming can generally only be reduced by narrowing the mainlobe solid angle and cannot fully be eliminated when directly facing a jammer which uses the same frequency and polarization as the radar.

The concept of " responsible drug use " is that a person can use drugs recreationally or otherwise with reduced or eliminated risk of negatively affecting other aspects of one's life or other people's lives.

A common misunderstanding of the phrase " reduced instruction set computer " is the mistaken idea that instructions are simply eliminated, resulting in a smaller set of instructions.

Each round thereafter is reduced by 10 seconds as players are eliminated.

In telecommunication, electromagnetic interference control ( EMI ) is the control of radiated and conducted energy such that emissions that are unnecessary for system, subsystem, or equipment operation are reduced, minimized, or eliminated.

At certain rotation angles, the reflected light will be reduced or eliminated.

Subsequently, under political opposition to women working in government offices, her position was reduced to that of copyist, and in 1857, under the administration of James Buchanan, eliminated entirely.

Increasing funeral expenses combined with decreasing real value of investments such as homes and retirement savings which took place in the 2000s have purportedly led to an increase in citizens taking advantage of arrangements where funeral costs are reduced or eliminated.

Removal of affected materials after the source of moisture has been reduced and / or eliminated may be necessary for remediation.