Childless people may perform a vrata (ritual) in worship of Shashthi, called either Chati Mata or Shashthi Vrata, in an effort to conceive.
King Priyavrata – the son of Svayambhuva Manu (the progenitor of mankind) – and his wife Malini performed the putrakamesti yajna (a fire-sacrifice ritual to gain a son) in an effort to conceive, but after twelve years of pregnancy, a still-born son was delivered to Malini.
If it's the latter — if the idea is that all societies are enactments of the impulses to dominate and to submit but some have disguised their brutality more effectively than others — we have reached a dead end: every effort to conceive of a better way of life simply reduces to some new hammer bashing away at some new nail.
On the other hand, the effort to conceive a character as a filled-out person, with a lifetime of backstory and biographical details, becomes a submergence into another (albeit fictitious) life, an abnegation of a nearly monastic stringency.
Hill (2004, p. 627, 628) argues that the concept of superaddition "is quite out of place" in connection with cohesion, because Locke regards cohesion as a foundational problem, which thwarts our efforts to conceive of body.
Yet there I was, two years into medical school, in the middle of an open cholecystectomy, discussing with my attending surgeon my efforts to conceive.
The semiofficial Press TV reported Mr. Ahmadinejad as saying that the United States makes "daily efforts to conceive scenarios against Iran.
Both the idea that education is preparation for an anticipated future and that education fosters freedom to create new futures are products of reflective processes, efforts to conceive and implement possible futures and, as such, both are resources to further expand the range of conceivable futures.
We also examined lifestyle factors that could indicate intense efforts to conceive, such as intercourse frequency (categorized as <1, 1 3, and ≥4 times per week) and months attempting pregnancy at study entrance (0 1, 2 4, 5 6, and 7 12 months).
Personhood measures also raise questions about what they would mean for in vitro fertilization, which often involves creating more than one embryo in an effort to help a woman conceive — the American Society for Reproductive Medicine has been against personhood initiatives — and the "morning-after pill," which is essentially a high dose of birth control pills that delays ovulation.
Many couples will be excluded from the new diktat, but if both parents were an only child, like most newly-weds in the city, they will be encouraged to conceive again, in an effort to ensure that the city's workforce is not outnumbered by its pensioners.
