Quotes About Resistant

There is good evidence that Aborigines are genetically insulin resistant,94 so that some of their metabolic traits 'are associated with being Aboriginal (mild impairment of glucose tolerance, hyperinsulinemia and elevated total and VLDL [very low density lipoprotein] triglycerides)'.95 In such a population, replacing ancestral food choices with the 'displacing foods of modern commerce' must predictably lead to high rates of T2DM.

Nothing which is at all times and in every way agreeable to us can have objective reality. It is of the very nature of the real that it should have sharp corners and rough edges, that it should be resistant, should be itself. Dream-furniture is the only kind on which you never stub your toes or bang your knee.

To this point it probably looks like I am setting this up as a slam-dunk case for ambulating while working, and getting ready to lambaste treadmill-resistant managers as insensitive and tragically shortsighted knuckle draggers. Well, they are.

Like John Major in her wake, Thatcher was convinced that she understood the Scots - yet couldn't understand why we remained so stubbornly resistant towards the notion of understanding her.

The essential question that he wanted to ask Freud was if he thought it might be possible to guide the psychological development of humankind so that it became resistant to the psychoses of hate and destruction, thereby delivering civilisation from the hovering menace of war.

Consider to what extent an "antique" is prized because it is excellently made and beautiful and to what extent it is prized because it is an antique and as such is saturated with another time and another place and is therefore resistant to absorption by the self—

The same traits that make them inventive, such as stubbornness and focus, can make them resistant to change when new ideas come along.

After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.

If you told me to describe myself in one word, it would be: not very good at following directions.

funny how ready people are to believe that counseling, which even when voluntary takes years to modify garden-variety neuroses, can work wonders in months with resistant patients who hate each other.

For a long time, I've struggled very, very much with what people call treatment-resistant depression.

At Beth Israel there had been Acinetobacter baumannii, which was resistant to vancomycin. That's how you know it's a hospital infection, I recall being told by a doctor I asked at Columbia Presbyterian. If it's resistant to vanc it's hospital. Because vanc only gets used in hospital settings.

I had long been resistant to doing a documentary about my mother for personal reasons. And I thought there was no way she'd want to, but then I asked her and she said 'yes.'

There are people who are just suicidal, regardless. They are built to self-destruct. It seems, in my family, like a virus that's resistant to any kind of help or care or medication.

Dans le discours de Poutine célébrant, le 18 mars 2014, l'annexion de la Crimée, "apparaît l'idée d'une supériorité non seulement culturelle, mais génétique, de l'homme russe. Il est plus résistant,

henceforth the victories of God over all the forces in the universe which are resistant to his will are to be won, not by the thunderbolts of coercive might, but by the persuasive constraints of self-sacrificing love.