Sentence examples for form of conversion from inspiring English sources

Warren had, it seemed, undergone a form of conversion.

But activists say some hospitals and doctors continue to prescribe drugs and use electroshock therapy as a bogus form of "conversion therapy".

"Rebirth" has often been identified with a definite, temporally datable form of "conversion," especially in the pietistic and revival type of Christianity.

But gays in Israel who contacted Jonah say they were referred to some of the 20 to 30 licenced psychologists and social workers, and 50 non-licensed therapists, who practice some form of conversion therapy in Israel.

Samantha Ames, staff attorney at the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), said research indicated that as many as a third of LGBT people have undergone some form of conversion therapy – from seeing licensed practitioners, talking with church leaders or visiting religious camps to extreme versions which can include nausea-inducing drugs, needles in fingers and "orgasmic reconditioning".

The task confronting people condemned to modernity is "not so much to escape this fate", Paz wrote, "as to discover a less inhuman form of conversion", that "does not bring duplicity and split personalities in its wake, as is the case today".

Its fear is that while converts from abroad are fairly few, tens of thousands of foreign workers living in Israel will line up for the supposedly easier (in fact, still quite demanding) forms of conversion, get their passports and stay permanently.

Shubb wrote, "Even if SB 1172 is characterized as primarily aimed at regulating conduct, it also extends to forms of (conversion therapy) that utilize speech and, at a minimum, regulates conduct that has an incidental effect on speech".

Ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC), form of energy conversion that makes use of the temperature differential between the warm surface waters of the oceans, heated by solar radiation, and the deeper cold waters to generate power in a conventional heat engine.

Instead, 75% of the null mice die at birth owing to cardiac abnormalities caused by defective endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition, a specific form of mesenchymal conversion that generates progenitors of the atrioventricular valves (Stephen et al., 2007).

Most engineers prefer "series hybrid," which means an electrically driven car that employs a second form of power conversion to supplement the battery's energy reserve.