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disability

A disability is condition where a person's movements or senses are limited by any physical or mental disadvantage.

disability

(= impairment) the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness reading disability hearing impairment

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Simple sentences

Does Tom have a learning disability?
Tom receives disability pension.
The World Health Organization says alcohol abuse is the third leading cause of death and disability in the world.
Tom has a learning disability.
I have a disability.
Employers cannot refuse to hire workers because of their race, religion, ethnic origin, skin colour, sex, age, marital status, disability or sexual orientation.
Stupidity is not a disability!
The army rejected Tom because of a physical disability.

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A disability, even when hidden, often leaves a secret wound that can fester.
They make good salesmen, you know. Men who have suffered from some kind of disability.
No-one with your disability has.
You'd have your retired pay and no doubt a total disability pension.
Is it a permanent physical disability?
Rumors are flying about this wedding, about Nishi using my sister's disability to boost himself up the corporate ladder.
Under the present circumstances, i. i doubt very much whether we would be permitted to do anything but. transfer you to a communal group of people with your disability.
Especially one with a physical disability, isn't that what you mean?
Full disability pension, war wounds.
He had to go on disability because of an ulcerated liver.or was it kidneys?
Mr. Strauss went on disability, then lost his wife and child.
The indemnity for permanent disability.
Otherwise, they get sent stateside, and. and. one moment's failure on the battlefield becomes a lifetime disability.
And some disability pay from the army.
Taking advantage of a disability incurred in the defense of the country is beyond words.
And after me it was Miss Koch in Disability.
He has a physical disability.
He has his disability pension from the railway company and a pittance for his services from the Church Council, I suppose.
That's a regional and ethnic disability I inherit from my ancestors.
Does your physical disability preclude you from coming to the point?
The agreement was that you would provide an advance look at all the testimony against my client. With particular regard to any scars, deformity, or disability suffered by witnesses.
It's a disability of sorts.
Obsian is also allergic to direct sunlight, a disability alleviated by his obsession with the cinema which normally keeps him safely in the dark.
Maybe you got some kind of reading disability.
Hell, the good folks at the lab are paying me disability leave of indeterminate duration.
And now, wouldn't you know it the Army cut my disability pension because they said the plate in my head wasn't big enough. Shoo.
Men who have suffered from some kind of disability.
Sometimes it's a disability or an ordeal of some sort.
Occupational disability.
I brought your disability pension.
It means that there's a disability that impairs the sensory input. and how it's processed.
Wen-ching with his disability you have to look after him, brother.
We got a learning disability here?
Leo gets his disability as long as he stays out of prison.
I ain't getting no back pain disability retirement.
So as you can see, the results with this one human subject indicate unlimited applications in the area of mental disability alone.
I saved up my disability checks.

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Or even any serious and incurable illness or disability?
The ICD code also frames eligibility for related social goods like hospital care, medical retirement, claims for disability compensation, hospice care, and home health care, to name a few.
The range of expertise included general medicine, palliative care, neurology, disability studies, gerontology, psychiatry, psychology, law, philosophy, and bioethics.
Many Roma are sent to special schools even though they show no sign of mental disability.
And there are still too many disparities based on gender, location, wealth, disability, and other markers of marginalization.
To stem the dramatic rise in disability payments, the Dutch now require firms with high claim rates to pay more for disability insurance, thereby creating a strong incentive to ensure greater workplace safety.
But reducing disability claims (and thus payments) is only half of the equation.
Common-sense policy reforms that ought to be adopted for their own sake, like the Dutch disability and welfare reforms, will provide a second dividend by lowering the dependency ratio.
What greater morality exists than doing all we can do to help individuals whose lives are blighted by disease and disability?
Acupuncture was found to have no additional effect on motor recovery, but a small positive effect on disability, which may be due to a true placebo effect, or to the varied quality of the trials.
But the military pays disability benefits that are markedly lower than the value of lost earnings.
In 1994, Pakistan had roughly 25,000 cases of polio, many resulting in death or permanent disability.
For example, many in the deaf community have rejected cochlear implants, because they do not regard deafness as a disability that needs to be corrected, but as a part of their life and cultural identity.
Indeed, there is no market for other kinds of recession-related insurance provided by the government, such as unemployment insurance, old age insurance, or disability insurance.
Only when the disease goes untreated does the damage caused to the peripheral nerves lead to loss of sensation and invite ulceration and wounds. Unchecked, leprosy disfigures and can result in permanent disability.
Pain is the leading cause of disability, especially back pain among people under 45 years of age and joint pain in older individuals.
Most health problems linked to NCDs - problems such as chronic pain, disordered sleep, depression, disability, and premature death - are associated with late-stage or complicated disease, rather than with early-stage or uncomplicated disease.
This is the paradox of NCDs: objective measures of poor health (severe symptoms, disability, premature death) are declining, even as the prevalence of these diseases is increasing.
Cash accounting meant that the Bush administration focused on today's costs, not future costs, including disability and health care for returning veterans.
The size of the share would be calculated by assessing the contribution the drug has made to reducing death and disability.

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