Sentence examples for dependent lives from inspiring English sources

I can't worry about those people — those people who have never even tried to feel the techno beat rise in their chest like a second heartbeat, realizing that a lit torch doesn't have to hurt to the touch, depending on your mind state — going about their droll, dependent lives, picking up their son from his Head Start program.

Tonight two 30-year-olds leave their technology- dependent lives to spend a month without modern conveniences at an eco-village in Missouri.

To focus on survivability rates while ignoring the pain-filled, isolated and dependent lives typical for most micro-preemies misleads future parents into believing there's a technological solution for every insufficiency of physiology.

This fractured FaceTime episode exposes three disturbing problems in our increasingly Wi-Fi dependent lives: our underwhelming and non-competitive national broadband infrastructure controlled by local monopolistic cable companies, none of which we can do much about, and the lies your Wi-Fi router tells you, which you can certainly do something about.

Remember that you will probably have to deal with your ex for the rest of their dependent lives.

To gain further insight into the dynamic nature of active ageing, future research could consider four phases of old age: pre-retirement (with an additional distinction between those in good and those in poor health); independent living as a retiree; early dependent living (characterised by increasing limitations); dependent living up until death (Malanowski 2009).

A score ≥ 60 represents independent living, with lower scores representing assisted or totally dependent living.

One admirable goal of these institutions is to ease the inevitable transition from active, contributing citizen to dependent, living off the financial and emotional acorns stored over a lifetime.

Institutionalisation was divided into two groups including, independent (living alone or in a warden controlled flat) or dependent (living in a residential home, nursing home or hospital).

Steverink [ 28] found that loss of comfort and affection (among the five instrumental goals to maintain well-being) were the main predictors of dependent living.

The importance of supporting older people in neighborhoods in realizing these instrumental goals to achieve well-being is even more evident in light of research showing that loss of comfort and affection are the main predictors of dependent living [ 28].