Wilkinson and Pickett (2011) thus demonstrated that countries with less income inequality, among other things, are characterized by longer life expectancy, better physical and mental health, and better child well-being.
If all beings have "no-self" or abiding essence, if all things are characterized by emptiness (śūnyatā) or the absence of any intrinsic nature basic teachings of both early and later Buddhist traditions and if we have been living the ignorance-biased lives of "sinners" rather than "saints", how is liberation ever possible?
The Buddha, blessings forever on his name, said the world and all things are characterized by suffering.
It was defined as a " information-technologically networked system of autonomously interacting things and processes, characterized by an increasing self-organization and leading to a merger of physical things with the digital world of the Internet" (Brand et al. 2009).
While it is difficult to be certain, Plato seems committed to the claim that each Form is good, that is, that each Form is a good thing or is characterized by goodness.[8] More doubts about the strict simplicity of Forms emerge from reflection on the nature of definition in Plato's middle period.
Among other things, this culture is characterized by a culinary preference for the Pacific rat, Rattus exulans, which are found everywhere the Polynesian voyagers landed.
Physical vulnerability in a natural hazards context is usually characterized by things like location and proximity of the human-built environment to a hazardous threat.
They're characterized by things that seem superficial, (the way their inhabitants dress, what they do with leisure time) but actually speak volumes about the nature of the area and what the people who have chosen it value.
Among other things, the disease is characterized by the action tremor of various body parts and, in later stages, by hyperreflexia, gait ataxia as well as other signs of cerebellar dysfunction and dementia.
Commerce players will need to keep in mind, though, that unlike the arrival of computers into the home, which slowly introduced consumers to the idea of digital commerce, or more recently smartphones, which introduced consumers to the idea of anytime, anywhere commerce, the "internet of things" ecosystem will not be characterized by the arrival of a single device or thing.
