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-- Therefore it is urged that during the period of utero-gestation, especial pains should be taken to render the life of the female as harmonious as possible, that her surroundings should all be of a nature calculated to inspire the mind with thoughts of physical and mental beauties and perfections, and that she should be guarded against all influences, of whatever character, having a deteriorative tendency.

Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics B. G. Jefferis

Lecture [2] sets forth the view that the influence of war on the race, both directly and indirectly, is injurious; he admits that there may be beneficial as well as deteriorative influences, but the former merely affect the moral atmosphere, not the hereditary germ plasm; biologically, war means wastage and a reversal of rational selection, since it prunes off a disproportionally large number of those whom the race can least afford to lose.

Essays in War-Time Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene Havelock Ellis 1899

Beyond this positive deteriorative effect on women through man's arbitrary choice comes the negative effect of woman's lack of choice.

The Man-Made World; or, Our Androcentric Culture Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1897

Training the reflective function is the training of character, while the training of the purely physical side often, and the training of the intellectual side not uncommonly, have a distinctly deteriorative effect.

Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge Extracted From His Letters And Diaries, With Reminiscences Of His Conversation By His Friend Christopher Carr Of The Same College Arthur Christopher Benson 1893

Training the reflective function is the training of character, while the training of the purely physical side often, and the training of the intellectual side not uncommonly, have a distinctly deteriorative effect.

Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton B A Of Trinity College Cambridge Benson, Arthur C. 1886

But once the ominous earmarks of the addictive process begin to appear, a trained counselor can identify the condition years before the final accelerating deteriorative spiral.

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The central bank is expected to raise rates to 0.50%, and it will be interesting to see whether they indeed to move on rates in the face of the current deteriorative global macro environment which needs to be a consideration for policy.

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Upon seeing the deteriorative state of their medical and dental condition, I then realized that socialism and communism were not forms of government that protected its people or valued their freedom of choice.

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The major deteriorative reaction in wines is caused by oxidation, the oxygen gradually changing the wine character, leading to development of browning and undesirable flavours.

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Its interaction with glitchery, such as on the opening folk guitar of otherwise electrolytic single "Bootstrap" or on the Italo-western twang of opener "Transient" (the rare attempt at this style within electronica that doesn't tumble Jenga-style into self-parody) where the cigarette burns of the John Ford reel meld with the acetate and celluloid to make Brakhage collage, is oddly interactive, rather than deteriorative.

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