Sentence examples for disabling illnesses from inspiring English sources

Parkinson's, like many other disabling illnesses, can be said to be a form of imprisonment, in which one's shaking limbs are the bars through which one gazes, in Oscar Wilde's words, "with such a wistful eye upon that little tent of blue which prisoners call the sky".

The World Health Organization has classified headache as the 14th cause of disabling illnesses.

More than twenty thousand people died as the result of the 1984 gas leak at a plant in Bhopal, India, in addition to many serious disabling illnesses.

This is particularly true for chronic and disabling illnesses, which do not completely respond to medication and treatment.

9 Moreover, a significant negative impact on quality of life (QoL) is seen with CD and is comparable to that seen with other serious disabling illnesses, such as multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease and stroke.

Bipolar disorders rank as one of the most disabling illnesses in working age adults worldwide.

Public health campaigns call depression a disabling illness.

A wonderful friend who lost a courageous battle against a disabling illness.

But we don't live on the savanna any longer, and what once may have provided a survival edge is now at best a nuisance and at worst a disabling illness.

She said that the videotape was a thank-you to South Carolina, to be shown in the event of a disabling illness or death, and that she had helped him prepare it without the knowledge of his staff.

And while it's true that Jim comes to know about pride, competition, racial tension and disabling illness during the course of the story, nothing looms larger for him than the terrifying specter of that mean old man.