Sentence examples for present comfort from inspiring English sources
In asking them to "sacrifice something of your present comfort," Lincoln invoked George Washington's sacrifices during the American Revolution.
He told them: "For the sake of your race, you should sacrifice something of your present comfort for the purpose of being as grand in that respect as the white people".
For Scanlon, giving up present comfort for the sake of future health 'feels like a sacrifice'.
A case study is here presented in which the design perspective in the redevelopment of public spaces is overturned: instead of designing the area and then verifying the results in terms of effective liveability of the new spaces, the results of the analysis of the present comfort conditions become the tool to address the design operations.
The menu presents comfort food to people whose idea of a good time demands high levels of discomfort, with hopelessly out-of-date and therefore cool dishes like chop suey, beef stew and liver and onions.
The ENVIMET fluido-dynamics software is used to assess the present outdoor comfort conditions in the different times of the year and to identify the critical elements to be modified.
Organisational continuity when present provided comfort and reassurance, and a sense of control.
In the present investigation, comfort was not influenced by the type of interface, as already reported in the previous short term physiologic investigations comparing FM and HS over brief periods of time (20 to 30 minutes) [ 10, 12], which has been attributed to the longer time required for most of the major determinants of patient discomfort during NIV to take place [ 10, 12].
She finds that the virtue of planting for future generations presents little comfort.
Adding insult to injury, he also runs into Timmy Timmons, an overachieving classmate whose fastidious demeanor and present bourgeois comforts fill him with bristling resentment.
After all, the representatives are inherently focused on being elected every two years, while many responsible economic decisions involve trading a bit of present-day comfort for long-term gains.
