Much of our existence consists of efforts aimed at making sure that things don't go wrong, fall apart, break down or stop running until a decent interval has elapsed after their manufacture or installation.
It was enough to realize that normal existence consists of a process of continual birth, death, and rebirth, a process from which, by following the path the Buddha discovered, one might achieve release.
The proof of the existence consists of four steps.
Metalocalypse: The animated adventures of the world's most popular rock band, Dethklok, as they weave through a sordid existence consisting of recording music, playing music, drinking and being watched by a dark consortium of shadowy world leaders who feel the band has a seminal role in some type of new world order or destruction.
Study of the nuclear reactions that provide the energy radiated by stars has shown how the diversity of atoms found in nature can be derived from a universe that, following the first few minutes of its existence, consisted only of hydrogen, helium, and a trace of lithium.
He chose for the subject of his thesis the mammals of the Mesozoic Era, which are important for the understanding of mammalian evolution, although evidence of their existence consists mainly of tantalizing fragments of jaws and teeth.
I suffer from anxiety, and for the first few months of this year my existence basically consisted of me curled up in the fetal position, weeping, glancing at job boards, weeping again, and posting statuses on Facebook (about weeping).
They share the guiding idea that natural existence consists in modes of becoming and types of occurrences.
The project of which existence consists is not the result of an arbitrary choice (as Sartre had previously maintained); it is, instead, that of a conditioning by the objective possibilities that Sartre identifies (as does Marx) with "the material conditions of existence".
The business plan I'd cooked up wasn't worth the paper it was written on and for the first eight years of our existence, Mumsnet Towers consisted of a back room shared with a washer and dryer.
