Isolated by her elderly husband's benign neglect and victimized by Spain's narrow-minded, morally conservative, and misogynist society, she undergoes a spiritual and psychological decline that parallels what Alas perceived to be his country's collective ills and degeneration.
It seems then almost folly to suggest, as does Thomas Berry in the quotation above, that our collective ills somehow stem from a flawed or incomplete "story".
Lives fraught with all reality hands us to stifle and squelch these two elements -- duty, deprivation, sacrifice, the collective ills of Mankind -- must allow for some justification for the desire to balance it out with a little sparkle, something to highlight our everyday.
Serum BAs correlated with bilirubin in our heterogenous collective of critically ill patients.
Our data demonstrated that an early increase of circulating BAs in a heterogeneous collective of critically ill patients is associated with increased 28-day mortality.
Therefore, the present study was performed to find out the frequencies of diagnostic categories of sepsis (sepsis, severe sepsis, septic shock) and ICU mortality rates within the same collective of critically ill postoperative/posttraumatic patients applying the 2003 definitions with increasing cut-offs for the general and inflammatory variables.
The 28-day survival rate of our hemato-oncological population was higher than survival rates reported in other collectives of critically ill hemato-oncological patients [ 26, 28, 33- 35].
(Honorable Mention: An Ambush of Tigers: A Wild Gathering of Collective Nouns by Betsy R. Rosenthal, ill.
When a community was to be purified, either from collective guilt or from the accumulated ill luck and ill-doing of a period of time, different processes were used from culture to culture.
But the disease I was most interested in addressing was apathy, a condition in which we express collective outrage over a societal ill and then eventually the anger dissipates as things return to "business as usual".
For both populations switching health insurer is related to collective offers, and being chronically ill or disabled has not been found to be related to switching behaviour.
