Sentence examples for an enduring pattern from inspiring English sources

The DSM-IV-TR (2000) describes personality disorders (PDs) as "inflexible and maladaptive personality characteristics [that] cause significant functional impairment or subjective distress" and as having an "enduring pattern of perceiving, related to, and thinking about the environment and oneself that are exhibited in a wide range of social and personal contexts"[ 1].

Now, once would be unfortunate, but this is an enduring pattern.

Generally, people are given a diagnosis of a personality disorder if an enduring pattern of their inner experience and behaviour causes regular and long term problems in the way they cope with life, interact with others and respond emotionally.

They seem unrelated, but both signal an enduring pattern of American history: Significant advances toward "a more perfect union" takes the work of the whole people, not simply the efforts of political leaders, experts, or famous personalities.

Many of these HCV-infected inmates suffer from personality disorders (PD) [ 5, 6], a class of mental disorders characterized as an "enduring pattern of inner experience and behaviour that deviates markedly from the expectation of the individual's culture, is pervasive and inflexible, is onset in adolescence or early adulthood, is stable over time, and leads to distress or impairment" [ 7].

Each alter has a peculiar, enduring pattern of perceiving, thinking about and relating to the environment and self, as well as different patterns of speech and physical comportment.

"My conclusion is that if sexual orientation is one's enduring pattern of sexual attraction, then the Bible teaches both same-sex behavior and same-sex orientation to be sinful," Denny Burk, a biblical studies professor at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, wrote in a blog post for the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission.

But it is a remarkably insightful portrait of some enduring patterns of human behavior, including that of dictators, mobs of people abused for generations, and what happens when the two sides clash.

(iii) Processists also have offered novel approaches to the problem of persistence, either by taking persistent entities to be "enduring" patterns of processes (Whitehead), or by questioning that "perdurance" vs. "endurance" accounts of persistence form a theoretically necessary exclusive dichotomy.

Dr. Randall Dole, the director of the federal government's Climate Diagnostics Center in Boulder, Colo., which studies ways to improve forecasts, said evidence was accumulating that there are enduring patterns in the atmosphere and oceans that provide a hint of predictability.

He extended his early concept of schizophrenia to a theory of personality, arguing that both normal and abnormal personalities represent enduring patterns of interpersonal relationships, thus giving the environment, in particular the human social environment, the major role in personality development.