8 sentences with 'states'
Example sentences and phrases with the word states and other words derived from it.
• « To reach these ideal states, drug addicts need to take higher and higher doses. This is the beginning of their path to total slavery, the forced passage through the darkest of tunnels: that of self-destruction. »
• « Viruses can be found in two states: in extracellular form they have no activity, and can even be crystallised and exist dormant for years; in this state they are called virions. The other form in which they can be found is inside the cell, when they have already infected it. »
• « Padma Sambhava, who introduced Buddhism to Tibet, transcribed "The Book of the Dead" in the 8th century. It is also known as the Bardo Thodol and is a guide to the intermediate states between death and rebirth. »
• « For example, the length of stay in different states of consciousness. Its aim is for the deceased to recognise the states he or she became familiar with during his or her practices as opportunities for liberation. »
• « A famous psychotherapist states that only if we harmonize our emotional and physical needs will we achieve sexual fulfillment. »
• « Following the Spanish and Portuguese conquest of Central and South America, the other major European states embarked on their own imperialist ventures in the following centuries. »
• « Europeans forced foreign states to concede their economic demands and political influence, as in China and the Ottoman Empire, or simply conquered and controlled regions outright, as in South Asia (i.e. India) and Africa. »
• « An inscription states that '5,400 soldiers ate daily in his palace', and there are graphic records not only of soldiers, but of siege weapons and mining (digging under the walls of enemy fortifications to make them collapse). »