Although these difficulties might be fatal to the survival of many supranational organizations, they are not in fact totally debilitating for the United Nations.
The discriminative ability of the Participation scale may possibly have been debilitated by the fact that it comprised relatively few items (3 items) and that these items had comparatively poor internal consistency, as reflected by a low Cronbach's alpha (0.62).
But he was surprised to get the job, for two reasons: a "professionally debilitating" surname (his words) and the fact that he could work only six days a week.
And there's been a bit of a cultural shift at the grass-roots, minor level as well, with people being serious about the fact that head trauma can be debilitating.
In fact, Fletcher has ulcerative colitis, a chronically debilitating bowel condition that will need a lifetime of medication, which FIFA rules allow.
"Models" offers some familiar observations about a career path that can be strewn with perils -- among them loneliness, debilitating fatigue and drugs -- but it is matter-of-fact, not prurient.
As Dickens wrote of Mr. Gradgrind's school in Hard Times, cramming kids with facts at the expense of their spirits was dehumanizing and debilitating.
What I am proposing is that we become honest with ourselves as a society about the fact that mass incarceration, and many common practices within houses of detention are debilitating.
In fact, older literature abounds with observations on severe pathologic findings associated with tungiasis and mentions debilitating sequelae such as phagedenic ulcers, gangrene, auto-amputations of digits, and the loss of entire limbs (19, 29, 30 ).
"Just the mere fact if OPEC tightens supply and the price of oil jumps by $5 a barrel could be debilitating for consumers and investors reeling with lots of other worries".
