He needs dialysis twice a week.

My conjunctivitis is chronic.

I have chronic dermatitis.

It's like this chronic, late defense mechanism.

Sort of like doing dialysis, but for relieving the parasite load.

The thoughts may likely be of an aggressive or sexual nature.

Japan's chronic slump is a case in point.

Chronic shortages of power such as these affect the whole of sub Saharan Africa.

What was a chronic illness is becoming a critical one.

Chronic stagnation is too high a price to pay for adopting the euro.

The adverse effects of sanctions are gradually becoming chronic and long term.

The Board found that delays in the signing of agreements was an endemic feature.

The global economic crisis has merely helped to mask chronic structural imbalances within the region.

True, a steep and persistent collapse in earnings will erode wealth invested in stocks.

For example, the immune system is enhanced by acute stress but suppressed by chronic stress.

Arbitrary arrest, detention and torture were all too common, for example, in Turkmenistan, and in Nepal, the Government's response to the ongoing insurgency had resulted in alarming human rights violations.

(b) Chronic respiratory diseases such as chronic bronchitis and lung cancer

I was facing basically a lifetime of dialysis, and I don't even like to think about what my life would be like if I was on that.

And this is one of the reasons that chronic stress is sometimes associated with cardiovascular disease.

Many have persisted for long periods of time and have become self perpetuating.

Chronic fiscal Imbalance A crisis in one area will quickly lead to a crisis in other areas.

I just heard that some Bahraini kidney patients were not able to attend their dialysis appointments because the roads were blocked.

Chronic stress inhibits neurogenesis and also causes many hippocampal neurons to shrink a process called remodeling.

The persistence of poverty and extreme poverty among indigenous people reflects a history of denial of their human rights.

If that country had its own currency, the exchange rate would decline, benefiting exports and impeding imports.

In the 1980 s, Scandinavian countries stood for chronic budget deficits, high inflation, and repeated devaluations.

i In 1998 referred to as chronic or unspecified bronchitis and emphysema.

Some, like AIDS, are chronic others, like earthquakes or hurricane Katrina, are sudden displays of natural force.

But a chronic current account deficit is unsound, unfair, and unsustainable in the long run.

The usual suspects, like saturated fat and sugar, nicotine, opiates, cocaine, too much alcohol and chronic stress.

Tsipras needs to assure Merkel that Greece will live within its means, not as a chronic ward of Europe.

In 80 of people infected, the disease is chronic, and without treatment, they are infected for the remainder of their lives.

The continued strong rise in domestic demand led to a further rise in the current account deficit to some 665 billion, corresponding to 5.7 of GDP. The general government budget deficit, relative to GDP, fell slightly, to 4.3 , reflecting favourable growth in revenues on account of the dynamic economic growth.

But chronic stalemate has confronted many Asian democracies with the threat of being discredited, a potential for violence, and the prospect of economic decline.

Naturally, politicians are reluctant to face up to choices between the unacceptable (permanent stagnation), the unthinkable (leaving the euro), and the hard to do (reform).

A new global development agenda was emerging which focused on the attainment of a set of internationally agreed development goals (in particular the Millennium Development Goals), and moreover the daunting situation of countries in a state of chronic crisis called for the convergence of security and development perspectives.

The region s chronic under investment in education, particularly in science and technology, is partly responsible for its economic stagnation during the past quarter century.

Increasingly we recognize that chronic stress is an important influence on health. But the most important sources of stress are the quality of social relations.

Because America s economy is so large, and the dollar so central to global finance, chronic US budget deficits mean huge global repercussions. The dollar is weakening, as financial markets understand that the US will need to borrow huge sums from abroad for years to come.

Because America s economy is so large, and the dollar so central to global finance, chronic US budget deficits mean huge global repercussions.

The main factors impeding the sustainable development of water resources are chronic scarcity, deteriorating quality and unsustainable water utilization, especially in agriculture.

Germany might rightly argue that it has followed a relatively laissez faire attitude towards trade, and that it should not be punished, despite its chronic surpluses.

U.S. attorney Charles H. Hunter described this as a complete fiction others suggested the symptoms were caused by HIV infection, diabetes or chronic stress.

But chronic hunger remains pervasive, particularly in developing countries, which are affected most by crop shortages and food price volatility.

America runs a chronic current account deficit approaching an astonishing 5 of GDP 242 billion in the first half of this year.