This popular origin, whichimpairs the excellence and the wisdom of legislation, contributes prodigiously to increase its power.
If such an administration succeeds in condensing at a given moment, on a given point, all the disposable resources of a people, it impairs at least the renewal of those resources.
And just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourishment.
If such an administration succeeds in condensing at a given moment on a given point all the disposable resources of a people, it impairs at least the renewal of those resources.
Klein's Geschichte des Dramas (Leipzig, 1867), but the bewildering irrelevancy of much of the matter introduced by that eccentric writer seriously impairs the critical value of his work.
When Johnson went on to describe the form of the poem as 'easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting,' he was but exhibiting a critical incapacity which seriously impairs his authority in literary matters.
My dear madam, while divorce of any kind impairs the integrity of the family, divorce with remarriage destroys it root and branch.
Thus it comes to pass, that our desires always increase with our possessions; the knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed, impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.
The use of distilled liquors impairs the fecundity of the human race, and hinders that increase which providence has ordained for the support of the world.
Since then 'tis nought but her abuse and Fate, That thus impairs her, what is this to her As she is real, or in natural right?
It impairs and destroys the corpuscles, thus affecting their powers of transporting oxygen and carbonic acid gas.
It destroys some of the small glands and impairs others.
Its harmony is its health; and to differ with it is heresy or treason, because social discord inflicts individual misery; and what disturbs and disarranges society, impairs the happiness and well-being of its members.
In many parts of the world the lack of suitable quarters for our embassies, legations, and Consulates detracts from the respect in which our officers ought to be held, and seriously impairs their weight and influence.
What is virtually a permanent detail of the corps of engineers to civilian duty necessarily impairs the efficiency of our military establishment.
That which frustrates one's plans or withers one's hopes; that which impairs or destroys.
Any mark of deformity or injury, whether physical or moral; anything that diminishes beauty, or renders imperfect that which is otherwise well formed; that which impairs reputation.
It impairs the prestige of our Navy and is a defect that can be very easily removed.
This conflict perplexes the public mind concerning the rights of naturalized citizens and impairs the national authority abroad.
Johnson of never doing anything that weakens the Office of the President of the United States or impairs the ability of the Presidents of the future to make the great decisions that are so essential to this Nation and the world.
Even when your confidence is not disturbed by a slippery memory there is an impalpable touch of the artificial about the prepared speech which impairs its vitality.
He very sensibly submits to the treatment of another, because he realizes that sickness impairs his judgment, and morbid sensations mislead and unfit him for the exercise of his skill.
Any disease which renders the circulation in the prostate gland languid and feeble interferes with the nutrition of that organ and impairs its function.
Whatever diminishes the general strength, impairs the health, or encroaches upon the functions of life, also hinders the perfect solution of food and disturbs in a measure the function of digestion.
Any defect of the latter impairs our fair ideal, and detracts from those qualities which impart excellence, and crown the character with perfections.
The predisposing causes are an hereditary tendency to the disease, and everything which impairs the constitution and produces nervous prostration and irritability.
Cover the vessel containing the ingredients, thus confining the vapor, and shutting out the atmospheric air which sometimes impairs the active principles and their medicinal qualities.
It is pleasant to see that the advance of years impairs not the taste for a refined and innocent pleasure.
If the Exercise is taken soon after the Meal, it impairs it.
Each of them results from an Overfulness of the Blood Vessels of the Brain, which presses upon, and prevents or impairs the Functions of the Nerves.
Plutarch, who oftenest uses β for v, expressly states in his life of Demosthenes his own deficiency as a Latin scholar, and this fact impairs the value of his testimony in general except as corroborating better witnesses.
Congress not only impairs but annihilates the right of private property, while it withholds from the slaves of the District their title to themselves.
The labor required is very frequently excessive, and speedily impairsthe constitution.
Pedagogy is too often a sterilizing institution, which takes young women who desire to marry and impairstheir chance of marriage.
This is a good specimen of much of the evidence cited to prove that alcohol impairs the germ-plasm; it has been widely circulated by propagandists in America during recent years.
Now if its use by man impairs the germ-plasm, then it seems obvious that the child of one who uses alcohol to a degree sufficient to impair his germ-plasm will tend to be born inferior to his parent.
In addition to the gangrene that soon impairs and blackens the tissues, I obtain convulsions similar to those produced by the scorpion's sting.
I also learn that too long indulgence in this feast brings a headache; but this discomfort in no way impairs my admiration for the glorious white flower, which wears a narrow red collar at the throat of its funnel.
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