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    1. · Drink plenty of water to avoid dehydration, which places added strain on the kidneys and can impair mental function


    2. “Would that impair trade or stimulate it?” Brendan asked, but got no reply


    3. The glasses felt odd, but the lenses were as he had requested and did not impair his vision


    4. impair health, morale and efficiency


    5. every thing that might impair his health or enervate his const-


    6. And he knew if he let his stress overwhelm him it would impair his judgment


    7. Heavy drinking over the long term can also impair your liver's ability to activate vitamins, which contributes to the malnutrition often suffered by long term alcoholics


    8. impair their daily functioning and disrupt the lives of those around them


    9. As such, high intakes of nicotimic acid can impair the excretion of uric acid, aggravating symptoms of gouty arthritis


    10. not impair the repair

    11. only impair the elements that they embody but also their finer resolu-


    12. sugar is known to impair immune function


    13. or more of these nutrients have been demonstrated in animal studies to impair the


    14. They heighten our negative thinking and impair our normal perception, rationality and comprehension


    15. needs, that distorts those visions contributes to impair the resulting creations


    16. and alcohol, which impair the normal activity of the mind, causes comparable problems, and


    17. Cold belongs to the Yin pathogen and it tends to impair yang qi causing


    18. impair the reproductive organs natural process of conception as resulting of


    19. Justice held her ground, undisturbed and unassailed by the efforts of favour and of interest, that now so much impair, pervert, and beset her


    20. Whether thus adorned she would have been beautiful or not, and what she must have been in her prosperity, may be imagined from the beauty remaining to her after so many hardships; for, as everyone knows, the beauty of some women has its times and its seasons, and is increased or diminished by chance causes; and naturally the emotions of the mind will heighten or impair it, though indeed more frequently they totally destroy it

    21. And not only their education, but their habitations, and all that belongs to them, should be such as will neither impair their virtue as guardians, nor tempt them to prey upon the other citizens


    22. Nevertheless, though his sister’s sin was no fault of his, and could not impair the worth of his well-earned character, yet some of the thoughtless young ensigns began to draw off from him, and he was visited, in a manner, with the disgrace of an excommunication


    23. In more mundane cases, a change to tax laws may impair the effectiveness of a hedge or an offsetting position


    24. Traders must master their emotions well enough to minimize their exposure to this hormonal barrage that can impair perception, wear on the body, and cause great damage to trading accounts


    25. Capital flowing into an asset class can, reflexively, impair the ability of those investing in that asset class to continue to generate the anticipated, historically attractive returns


    26. In our own experience we have noted among them a pervasive attitude which we think tends to impair what could otherwise be more useful advisory work


    27. The more seriously investors take the per-share earnings figures as published, the more necessary it is for them to be on their guard against accounting factors of one kind and another that may impair the true comparability of the numbers


    28. (6) impair the right of any Holder to receive payment of principal of and interest on such Holder’s Securities on and after the due dates therefore or to institute suit for the enforcement of any payment on or with respect to such Holder’s Securities;


    29. 2006) also impair the ability of cocaine-associated cues to induce reinstate-


    30. For example, the impact of manipulations that impair

    31. Most bond indentures and credit agreements restrict corporate actions that would impair liquidity in any way by setting minimum ratios that a business may not exceed


    32. Such sector biases may or may not boost average returns but they pretty clearly impair value portfolio diversification and thus raise its volatility


    33. Wherein it doth impair the seeing sense,


    34. The freshness of her heart impair,


    35. Upon this I set myself to explain the meaning of all the combinations—of "rouge et noir," of "pair et impair," of "manque et passe," with, lastly, the different values in the system of numbers


    36. And already, with a sort of fear, a sort of sinking in my heart, I could hear the cries of the croupiers—"Trente et un, rouge, impair et passe," "Quarte, noir, pair et manque


    37. Though I can remember you in the strong, ardent period of your life, I feel persuaded that you have now forgotten every better feeling of that period—that your present dreams and aspirations of subsistence do not rise above pair, impair rouge, noir, the twelve middle numbers, and so forth


    38. These practical results, which are repeated everywhere, should, it seems, prove the incorrectness of the method itself; but among the pedagogues, those that write manuals and prescribe rules, there exists such a complete ignorance of and aversion to the knowledge of the masses and their demands that the relation of reality to these methods does not in the least impair the progress of their business


    39. The privations and sufferings which take from the men of the social concept of life the good for which they live, cannot impair the Christian's good, which consists in the fulfilment of God's will; they can only strengthen him, when they assail him in the performance of this will


    40. At the table, which was covered with bottles, dressed in his semi-military uniform, sat the governor, the chief of the expedition, eating something, and speaking calmly about the weather with an acquaintance whom he had met, as though the matter which he was about to attend to were so simple and so common that it could not impair his calm and his interest in the change of the weather

    41. One man does not tell the truth which he knows, because he feels himself under obligation to the men with whom he is connected; another,—because the truth might deprive him of the advantageous position by means of which he is supporting his family; a third,—because he wants to attain glory and power, to use them later in the service of men; a fourth,—because he does not wish to violate the ancient sacred traditions; a fifth,—because the expression of the truth will provoke persecution and will impair that good public activity to which he is devoting himself, or intends to devote himself


    42. She will endeavor to arrange her sources of supply, so that no one nation refusing to deal with her shall have it in their power materially to impair her interests


    43. That the operation of those orders would be extended to Spain and Portugal, should the embargo be repealed in part, I infer from this positive assertion of the British Secretary: "It is not improbable, indeed, that some alterations may be made in the Orders in Council, as they are at present framed; alterations calculated not to abate their spirit or impair their principle, but to adapt them more exactly to the different state of things which has fortunately grown up in Europe, and to combine all practicable relief to neutrals with a more severe pressure upon the enemy


    44. It is peculiarly irksome to me to question the constitutionality of a law which has been thus and so long acquiesced in, because it tends to give the character of instability to the laws generally, and in my judgment, tends also to impair the sacred character of the laws, and of course, to lessen their efficacy


    45. —If Governor Folch should unexpectedly require and pertinaciously insist that the stipulation for the redelivery of the territory should also include that portion of the country which is situated west of the river Perdido, you are, in yielding to such demand, only to use general words that may by implication comprehend that portion of the country; but, at the same time, you are expressly to provide, that such stipulation shall not, in any way, impair or affect the right or title of the United States to the same


    46. It goes to alter the nature of a remedy—to impair the obligation of a contract


    47. Our Government was made to secure the happiness of the people, and every thing which even remotely is calculated to impair their moral sense, will have an effect upon their situation


    1. "So you're doubly shuttlecraft impaired at the moment


    2. Once you remove the oil, it will fail rather quickly and mobility will be impaired


    3. As in this case, however, the taxes are lighter than they would have been, had a revenue sufficient for defraying the same expense been raised within the year ; the private revenue of individuals is necessarily less burdened, and consequently their ability to save and accumulate some part of that revenue into capital, is a good deal less impaired


    4. The seasons during which the ability of private people to accumulate was somewhat impaired, would occur more rarely, and be of shorter continuance


    5. The private revenue of the inhabitants of Great Britain is at present as much incumbered in time of peace, their ability to accumulate is as much impaired, as it would have been in the time of the most expensive war, had the pernicious system of funding never been adopted


    6. Troy says: Remember the time the Family inflicted the reviled Elizabethan Collar on you? The lampshade laced round your neck that impaired your hearing and gave you tunnel vision


    7. Clivers are used in conditions that are characterised by general or localized swelling or where lymphatic circulation has been impaired


    8. Victory was snatched at heavy cost, but a victory that can be attributed alone to Providence; for had the morale of the enemy been less impaired by starvation and disease, or had the fleet remained in Santiago Harbour, the amazing valour of the American soldiers must have gone for naught, and a reverse been entailed


    9. Eleventh, Impaired ability to Debate: I have spent a lifetime trying to debate Leftists


    10. Again, what are considered normal hand gestures as an aid to communication can be impaired

    11. Their sense of humor may also be impaired


    12. Any impaired person will try to accommodate to limit the impairment


    13. Their common sense is impaired


    14. The accounts of anarchy, killing, and raping in the Superdome, as reported by the Mass Media, not only were fictional, but they actually impaired the relief efforts


    15. driver, was also impaired and speeding at the time of the crash


    16. Josie’s behavior endangered and impaired many lives


    17. impaired by your medications, great, but really think about it first


    18. have impaired energy production in cells in their brains and supplementing with riboflavin may help


    19. neurologically impaired and could not perceive pain, the doctor’s claim that he


    20. brains are impaired, may also use this non-local intelligence

    21. I investigate stories about the living impaired


    22. He was able to see and to discern sound, but it had to be loud as his hearing was impaired but he had very limited awareness of his surroundings


    23. 1 Although Jesus was poor, his social standing in Nazareth was in no way impaired


    24. impaired we can use all the other senses


    25. But women's self-esteem is obviously severely impaired by the cultural


    26. The primary victim was an 8 year-old hearing impaired boy


    27. It actually impaired his very steps, hesitating, then halting him


    28. “Yes! And in Forrest’s condition, it seems his judgement has been impaired


    29. But I developed cysts in both knees and had to give up offense and play impaired on defense with donut shaped pads on my knees for the rest of the year after about 4 games


    30. Our system should challenge the impaired to find a way of self care and happiness, and not trample on them like they are some kind of losers

    31. cally impaired in some way


    32. They were the food of birds, but when these birds disappeared, they grew and impaired the crops


    33. Barron thought a moment, his mind impaired by weariness,


    34. “We have since found out the drinking water was laced with cocaine and understandably, everyone at a house was under the influence of the drug and judgment was obviously impaired


    35. The F-15Js, their radars still impaired by the jamming from the Chinese KJ-2000 airborne surveillance aircraft, fired in turn a salvo of AIM-120 AMRAAM long range air-to-air missiles


    36. This inflated reputation may also have impaired the Admiralty's judgment


    37. Since he had always practiced defensive driving, his ability to do two things at once was not really impaired beyond that under any other distracting circumstances


    38. The start of an impaired vision


    39. It is crucial to release accumulated cortisol and adrenalin, otherwise you are bound to have a heart-attack or even worse, a stroke that leaves you paralysed or impaired in some way


    40. hold anyone responsible for their actions if they were drugged or otherwise ill so much so that their judgment was impaired, so, I think you should lighten up on yourself

    41. A real sleep, not the impaired sleep induced from exposure to Kelvan technology


    42. formation of red blood cells in the bones and can cause impaired vitamin D metabolism and


    43. Phosphatidylserine in the brain are associated with impaired cognitive function and depression in the elderly


    44. Treatment of Depression and/or Impaired Mental Function in the Elderly


    45. To make matters worse, he was blind, and he wore one of the older style seeing impaired devices, a visual net which draped over his outer most garment


    46. Children with cystic fibrosis frequently have steatorrhea (high levels of fat in their stools due to impaired fat


    47. Impaired Mental Function in the Elderly (Senility)


    48. Impaired mental function in the elderly can be a result of reversible nutritional deficiencies


    49. The process requires my pulmonary and respiratory functions to be temporarily impaired


    50. He could only see through one eye, but sight was impaired even with that one















    1. The law defined Crimen Injuria as "unlawfully, intentionally and seriously impairing the dignity of another


    2. impairing his vision even more


    3. He brushed the hot embers from his armour and removed his helmet which was impairing his vision


    4. It could be spent on wages easily without impairing “other income”


    5. Dictators change things by adding or subtracting, impairing the harmony of the whole


    6. impairing his eventual outcome


    7. That what she was going through was not simply a depression due to Makis"s death and guilt feelings for her past behavior that she could no longer rectify but was suffering from a mental dysfunction that was impairing her life


    8. The question any industrial purchaser has to ask is whether this overhead is fat or muscle-an expense that can be trimmed severely without impairing the earnings or functions vital to the success of the company


    9. Swann also learned that the stock was being ignored because most of its gold production had been hedged (meaning, they had presold it) at fixed prices ranging from $550 per ounce to $750 per ounce, severely impairing the profitability of the company


    10. drug-associated memory, impairing the ability of the cocaine-associated cue to

    11. But with the whale, these two sashes are separately inserted, making two distinct windows, but sadly impairing the view


    12. Some men say that the state is most necessary for humanity, that the destruction of the political form would lead to the destruction of everything worked out by humanity, that the state has been and continues to be the only form of the development of humanity, and that all that evil which we see among the nations who live in the political form is not due to this form, but to the abuses, which can be mended without destruction, and that humanity, without impairing the political form, can develop and reach a high degree of well-being


    13. Now, admitting that the establishment of a bank in the first instance was not necessary for the due exercise of the legislative rights bestowed in any one of these enumerated powers, if our predecessors in office, by the creation of a bank, which at best was an improper institution, because not necessary, have placed our fiscal concerns in such a situation that it cannot be put down without great injury to the revenue, which Congress is bound to levy; and collect, without injuring our commerce, without impairing our public credit, without lessening the public welfare, all of which Congress is bound to provide for and protect; if this can be demonstrated to be the probable result of pulling down the bank at this period, I would ask whether that institution, which was improper at first, because not necessary, does not become proper, because almost indispensable at present?


    1. It impairs the macula


    2. When funding, besides, has made a certain progress, the multiplication of taxes which it brings along with it, sometimes impairs as much the ability of private people to accumulate, even in time of peace, as the other system would in time of war


    3. Refusing money –Research shows that anger impairs our


    4. It found that the Appellant had “a character flaw which impairs


    5. To the contrary, it impairs health and


    6. You know that your brethren love you in spite of this weakness, and you should also understand that this shortcoming in no way impairs my affection for you, but it lessens your usefulness and never ceases to make trouble for you


    7. thereby substantially impairs the ability of that other


    8. the pupil and please the parents but it impairs many a musical


    9. outward, impairs the body qi and fluid and is often accompanied by damp-


    10. growth in the reproductive region that impairs fertility

    11. But in reality justice was such as we were describing, being concerned however, not with the outward man, but with the inward, which is the true self and concernment of man: for the just man does not permit the several elements within him to interfere with one another, or any of them to do the work of others,--he sets in order his own inner life, and is his own master and his own law, and at peace with himself; and when he has bound together the three principles within him, which may be compared to the higher, lower, and middle notes of the scale, and the intermediate intervals--when he has bound all these together, and is no longer many, but has become one entirely temperate and perfectly adjusted nature, then he proceeds to act, if he has to act, whether in a matter of property, or in the treatment of the body, or in some affair of politics or private business; always thinking and calling that which preserves and co-operates with this harmonious condition, just and good action, and the knowledge which presides over it, wisdom, and that which at any time impairs this condition, he will call unjust action, and the opinion which presides over it ignorance


    12. And now we may fairly take him and place him by the side of the painter, for he is like him in two ways: first, inasmuch as his creations have an inferior degree of truth--in this, I say, he is like him; and he is also like him in being concerned with an inferior part of the soul; and therefore we shall be right in refusing to admit him into a well-ordered State, because he awakens and nourishes and strengthens the feelings and impairs the reason


    13. similarly impairs both context-induced and CS-induced cocaine seeking, with the


    14. Consistent with this, TTX-induced inactivation of the lateral OFC impairs foot-


    15. variants in the ALDH2 gene that impairs the enzyme function partially leading to an


    16. At these market extremes a uniformity of opinion occurs, which impairs the ability of a group to offer good collective judgment


    17. Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it; and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic


    18. In keeping shy of the Christian life-conception, which for some impairs only the habitual order, and for others both the habitual and the advantageous order, men cannot help but return to the pagan concept of life, and to the teachings which are based on them


    19. The tearing away of the men from the habitual course of life impairs the possibility of the work itself


    20. Thus the activity of violence weakens and impairs precisely what it intends to maintain

    21. In a Government like ours, where the laudable boast of every citizen is that he lives under a government of laws, and not of men, no subject should be touched with more caution and delicacy than one which questions the validity of the laws, lessens the confidence of the citizens in them, or impairs the obligation of obedience to them


    22. It also impairs the force of contract, which is strictly interdicted to the States, and a fortiori not to be done to the General Government


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    impair deflower mar spoil vitiate diminish damage injure worsen cheapen tarnish

    "impair" definitions

    make worse or less effective


    make imperfect