Sentence examples for allows us to function from inspiring English sources
"We take for granted this highly repeated memory storage that allows us to function so well," Dr. Gary Small, the director of U.C.L.A.'s Memory and Aging Research Center, and the author of "iBrain: Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind," said last week, after first asking if he could switch to another line and repeating his caller's number aloud, to exercise his frontal lobe.
"This is crucial because if we get flooded again, we will not be able to obtain the insurance that allows us to function as a crucial service to the community, and CatStrand would have to close down". He said they had now raised more than £40,000 but were hoping for further support to reach their full target.
Our days are made up of mindless routines - both physical and emotional - processes that allows us to function without being constantly bombarded with decisions.
Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.
Obsession with "cure" is part of our drive to control and deny that our destinies end with death and that there is a magic pill that will allow us to function without impairment "forever".
"Just as we have core senses that allow us to function as humans, the industrial landscape has a key set of senses that can be utilized to give a holistic view of the industrial environment.
Much of the time, these heuristics are vital to successful living, allowing us to function on a daily basis while conserving our higher faculties – the "slow" thinking of the book's title.
If given the opportunity we will make decisions that improve our health and allow us to function as productive members of this society.
We had both come to accept certain truths, some unpalatable, and while we were both still angry and confused, we had found coping mechanisms that were allowing us to function with renewed focus and purpose.
In my work over the last two decades attempting to grasp the nature of emotional trauma (RD Stolorow, Trauma and Human Existence, Routledge, 2007), I have concluded that its essence lies in the shattering of what I call the absolutisms of everyday life, the system of illusory beliefs that allow us to function in the world, experienced as stable and predictable.
