The Tzar lent an attentive ear to those zealous governors and governors-general, who in their "most humble reports" propounded the new-fangled theory of the "injuriousness" of the Jews; the marginal remarks frequently attached by him to these reports assumed the force of binding resolutions. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894)] Reference
The injuriousness of fogs and low temperatures will be presently dwelt upon at greater length. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884] Reference
It is time that parents and physicians learn that the injuriousness of the habit has been greatly, grossly exaggerated. From Wordnik.com. [Woman Her Sex and Love Life] Reference
The ancient idea of the injuriousness of the relations during menstruation and the disastrous results likely to follow them have only a very slender foundation. From Wordnik.com. [Woman Her Sex and Love Life] Reference
We shall accomplish a good deal more with our youthful and older patients if we leave alone, altogether, the moral side of the question -- if there be any moral side to it -- and emphasize the physical injuriousness of the habit. From Wordnik.com. [Woman Her Sex and Love Life] Reference
Determined in respect of character by either injuriousness or peacefulness, mildness or fierceness, righteousness or unrighteousness, truthfulness or untruthfulness, each creature, at every new creation, obtains that particular attribute which it had cherished before. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
Imbued with the medieval idea of the "sinfulness" of the habit, as well as its injuriousness, they begin to scold the child, to frighten it, to make it believe that it is doing something terrible, that it has disgraced them and itself; and they try to persuade it that, unless it stops immediately, the most direful consequences are awaiting it. From Wordnik.com. [Woman Her Sex and Love Life] Reference
That circumstance, therefore, is probably the cause of its injuriousness. From Wordnik.com. [Logic Deductive and Inductive] Reference
To admit, of course, in the first place, the injuriousness to the 'popularity,' of the scriptural tone. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)] Reference
Illustrating the folly and injuriousness of the fool's words; last clause of Ec 10: 12. 14. full of words -- (Ec 5: 2). From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
I ought to have recognized that my indignation was less against the injuriousness of his opinions than against him for holding them. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The judgment thus formed is immediate, and has no relation to the usefulness or injuriousness to human happiness, of the objects contemplated. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of Moral Science.] Reference
Do you know he has helped/me/to get better sleep, by what he said when I was at Thornhill, about the injuriousness of Morphia, and such things. From Wordnik.com. [New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference
It is clear that some form of selection must always co-operate in degeneration, such as economy of growth, which he hardly notices except as a possible but not a necessary factor, or actual injuriousness. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences]
So that, to put it roughly, all that would be necessary practically to neutralize the injuriousness of the bacillus would be to prevent about one-twentieth of the exposures to its invasion which actually occurred. From Wordnik.com. [Preventable Diseases] Reference
The injuriousness of "false facts" to science is illustrated by a remark which occurs in the great work on the natives of South Africa by Dr. Fritsch, who is justly regarded as one of the leading authorities on that subject. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Love and Love-Stories] Reference
Treatment of irritability associated with Autistic Disorder in pediatric patients (aged 6 to 17 years), including symptoms of aggression towards others, deliberate self-injuriousness, temper tantrums, and quickly changing moods. From Wordnik.com. [Health News from Medical News Today] Reference
The ABC-Irritability (ABC-I) Subscale, which was the primary outcome measure in both trials, contains 15 items that measure symptoms of irritability, including aggression towards others, deliberate self-injuriousness, temper tantrums and quickly changing moods. From Wordnik.com. [Health News from Medical News Today] Reference
When people learned, as they could hardly help doing from Mrs. Savor's volubility, what his plan with regard to Idella had been, they instanced that in proof of the injuriousness of his idealism as applied to real life; and they held that she had been remanded in that strange way to Miss. From Wordnik.com. [Annie Kilburn : a Novel] Reference
A third and by far the most important intellectual influence which tended toward the destruction of the system of regulation was the development of a consistent body of economic teaching, which claimed to have discovered natural laws showing the futility and injuriousness of any such attempts. From Wordnik.com. [An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England] Reference
Its injuriousness during the stage of reaction. From Wordnik.com. [Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say] Reference
9. lying and injuriousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Devotions of Bishop Andrewes. Vol. I] Reference
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