She is also swimming against two currents in American life: petty puritanism and a pathological obsession with safety.
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Sequelae is a pathological condition resulting from a previous disease or injury.
My mother had been the proud owner of Cindy, a shepherd-collie mix with serious aggression issues and a pathological obsession with Ritz crackers.
Asset backed securities professionals have a pathological desire to relive the past while hoping that this time around things will turn out differently.
And some critics accused her of using the wrong word in her attack on Mr Abbott, pointing to the dictionary definition of ''misogyny'' as a pathological hatred of females.
Thus confirmed in his ideas, Dr Susser went on to trace the incidence of anti-social personality disorder (ie, a pathological tendency to behave badly towards one's fellow humans) in the two groups.
The report estimates that roughly 3m American adults have had a pathological gambling problem at some point in their lives, meaning that they have lied, stolen, gone broke, neglected jobs or family, or even committed suicide because of an uncontrollable desire to gamble.
Reams of research point to the same finding: physicians looking at the same thing will disagree with each other, or even with themselves, from 10 percent to 50 percent of the time during virtually every aspect of the medical-care process from taking a medical history to doing a physical examination, reading a laboratory test, performing a pathological diagnosis and recommending a treatment.
McNamee called Clemens a "pathological liar" in a story published Sunday in the Daily News.
During the inquest, Mr Webb was described as a "pathological liar" and a "sad man" by the coroner.
And how do you explain a near pathological obsession with trying to hang it up on there.
But in 2009, his conviction was ruled unsafe after fresh medical evidence revealed he had a "pathological need for attention".
One is a sort of pathological conservatism, where people forgo even feasible things with potentially large benefits for fear of losing the little they already possess.
He showed that just as the bad amyloid-42 sped the formation of amyloid clusters, so a small number of pathological prions could convert good prions to the dark side, at least in test-tube experiments.
Their third finding was that a low intake of omega-3s during pregnancy led to higher levels of pathological social interactions such as an inability to make friends as a child grew up.
This is particularly worrying in the light of work which shows that pathological behaviour in childhood is a good predictor of a lifetime of aberrant behaviour.
As much as we want Madoff to be some sort of evil monster so we can have some balance given the biblical scope of his crime, what I saw in the letters was not a man of gargantuan intellect and deeply pathological character.
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"I don't like the term 'binge, ' because it sounds almost pathological, " says Todd Yellin, a Netflix executive.
Again, there is currently not enough data to establish that pathological Internet overuse should be diagnosed as a behavioral addiction, like, for example, a gambling addiction.
The head of the Palestinian Pathological Institute also participated in the autopsy, a spokesman said.
The head of the Palestinian Pathological Institute also participated in the examination, a spokesman said.
Is there something exploitative about handing a megaphone and a fat wad of cash to someone who suffers from pathological impulsivity?
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Could any president, from George Washington on, come out with his reputation better than President Clinton's, had they encountered a Ken Starr, investigating their lives with the same pathological obsession?
Maybe, just maybe, pathological overusers are more like early moviegoers who fled theaters on first seeing moving images of a rapidly onrushing train than they are like drunks and junkies.
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