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Since human beings were originally asocial and only later learned to form alliances and compacts, it is possible that Epicurus means to say that this capacity for friendship arose out of need, but that once the capacity for such feelings was acquired, feeling them came to be valued in itself.
Only under such conditions could women and men acquire feelings of real self-esteem rather than feelings of false inferiority and superiority.
In cervical cancer screening, women participated to acquire feelings of confidence and security and they returned to regular screening to confirm that they were healthy.
It was observed that CEB were generated through socio-psychological 'pathways' as people interacted with environmental settings, such as acquiring knowledge, feeling regenerated and communicating with others.
As they supply her with books, she supplies them with slangily affectionate letters in which she pours out her heart about the joys of acquiring and feeling previously owned copies of Hazlitt, Stevenson, Pepys, de Tocqueville, Chaucer, Landor, Woolf and Newman ("dear, goofy John Henry"), among others.
It is also possible that the woman did not feel responsible for relieving the patient's physical pain and therefore did not acquire a feeling of helplessness or guilt leading to subsequent mental health symptoms.
Moreover, when the patients realize that their adherence is constantly and carefully checked, they acquire a feeling of greater control and consequently higher compliance which contributes to positive effects that can be observed in the first few weeks.
Information giving is an important element in the quality of care: patients need information in order to understand their condition[ 38]; to acquire a feeling of control, necessary for successful self-management[ 38]; and to participate in medical decision-making [ 39, 40].
This is due largely to its remarkable hold over the imaginations of people all over the world who acquire proprietorial feelings about the city and see it as their mission to deliver it intact to future generations.
Also linked to the durability of affects and sense is the efficacy of the weapon salve, attributed to Paracelsus, by means of which a wound can be healed by putting ointment on the weapon that caused it, as if the spiritus enclosed in the wound acquires confidence by feeling the cure via the air and experiences "almost the joy of revenge".
And you cannot be an Italian composer, it would seem, without acquiring a feeling for Italianate lyricism, which Dallapiccola had in abundance.
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The phrase "acquire feeling" functions as a verb phrase where "acquire" is the transitive verb and "feeling" is the direct object. The verb "acquire" indicates the action of gaining or developing something, in this case, an emotion or sensation.
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