fact of life

Darwin would later say that this work caused him to realize the struggle for limited resources was a fact of life.

Too often this joke has been used to express some dark fact of life with which those in the real world must contend.

To experience conflict is not to deal with an aberration, but a permanent fact of life we often do a good job of conveniently ignoring.

It's been a fact of life for African Americans since the beginning.

Networks sometimes fail -- it's just a fact of life that you, as a Web user, have come to live with.

"We are bound into contracts and that's just a fact of life, " he said.

For some it's temporary, perhaps triggered by particular events or transitions, while for others, it seems to be a permanent fact of life.

Well, it might not be a fact of life to us, but it is to her so give her a break.

Still, "It's just a fact of life that we can only milk a cow for so long, " analyst David Cappuccio told a recent conference.

It's a simple fact of life that you've got to take care of the low end of the market.

"Teenagers don't come to the store, " he said. "They don't read in Polish if they live here. They forget. That's the fact of life. "

Such a scenario of war with China is inconceivable and its a fact of life that they are destined to dominate our region of the world.

Whether you choose to keep this frightening truth in the forefront of your awareness or not, impermanence is a fact of life.

It has been a fact of life for much of our history.

It's a simple fact of life that change is all around us.

Once you consider death as a fact of life, then it will be easier for you to bear the loss.

Do not misunderstand. I'm not suggesting that documentation and signoff are unnecessary -- they are a fact of life in the world of business.

While some of us may know more about this than others, it is a fact of life, and there is no way around it.

And the existence of that range of maneuver is a fact of life under modern procedure.

Gradually she had come to accept it as a fact of life, though the grief was still sometimes there.

For the couch-potatoes who sit on their sofas all day playing Space Force or Galactic Civilisations, this is a sad fact of life.

Water shortage is already a fact of life for people right here in Beijing and across a growing number of provinces across the country.

The pollution and its accompanying health risks are a fact of life for these people, reports James Reynolds for the BBC.

It is just a fact of life. It is not anyone else's fault bar our own.

I said, Modern science has confirmed what ancient faiths have always taught: the most important fact of life is our common humanity.

It's a sad fact of life: Lies are lies, and sometimes the truth can lie as well.

Allstate, an American insurance company, noted that insurers had come to accept widespread customer dissatisfaction as a fact of life.

School is a fact of life and getting an education can help you build the kind of future life you want.

I'm not pretending it's classy , and I'm not saying you emerge with extra points for dignity. I'm just saying it's a fact of life.

Importing the bulk of their energy requirements is now a fact of life for the world's two most populous nations.

We wish to build on this basic fact of life and show that advanced technology can help man to realize his fuller potential.

Moreover, I firmly stand by the male "sexual reflex" phenomenon as a very real fact of life.

When I was old enough to notice that girls were pleasantly different from boys, my mother told me the fact of life.

Going bald is a fact of life for millions of men.

Teenage pregnancies aren't just another fact of life in a difficult upbringing.

But it doesn't have to be a fact of life, having advertising everywhere.

Lawbreaking companies and marauding journalists are a fact of life: they should be punished.

Mr. Schmidt said it is 'a fact of life' that some Google employees will ultimately choose the risk and reward of a start-up.

People want to be with attractive people. It's a fact of life. We're not afraid to say so.

It's just a fact of life that "bosses will be bosses. "

In a city where nobody cooks, rising prices at New York restaurants have become a fact of life.

Slippage is a fact of life in trading and should be worked into the equation.

The stellar astronomers have to accept low intensity reciprocity failure as a significant fact of life.

It's an everyday fact of life in India - but campaigners are now fighting back, using people power and the internet.

Nowadays, people wouldn't put up with those terrible circumstances but in those days it was accepted as a fact of life.

Gradually she had come to accept it as a fact of life .

it would mean in effect accepting mass unemployment as a permanent fact of life.

IN MANY parts of the world, greasing the palms of corrupt officials is a fact of life.

Dense air pollution blanketed cities like Los Angeles, where smog alerts were a fact of life.

I ponited out that whatever the more convenient decision-making procedures of Hanoi, our legislative procedures was a fact of life.

This experimentation is a fact of life and should not be considered a reflection of poor parenting.

John Gibbon called time the "primordial context" : a fact of life that has been felt by all organisms in every era.

We must all die some time that's just a fact of life.

It is now so common that it is seen as a normal fact of life.

Trade-offs are a fact of life; how to balance them is a matter for democratic politics, not statistical calculation.

For all the outrage in the US over dangerous toys imported from China, economic interdependence is a fact of life.

It is a strange fact of life that we often talk to strangers more politely than we do those we are close to.

For much of the past two millennia, he notes, Asians took Chinese dominance as a fact of life.

Climate change is now a fact of life on this planet.

The face pack for preventing and resisting wrinkles has come into the world, challenging aging -- a fact of life.

Accelerating business change is a fact of life for today's global commercial and institutional entities.

sorcery, both for good and evil, is a fact of life in the island province of Siquijor.

Society has come to accept most of these implants as a fact of life.

That these systems are too complex to test easily, and that its an unfortunate fact of life.

That is a fact of life that much of Europe, with its underclass of permanently idle workers, knows all too well.

It's a fact of life that if you're in any way well known, then you're going to come in for criticism.

And there's another nagging fact of life in China's luxury market: Chinese consumers make more luxury purchases abroad than at home.

For pharmaceutical companies, product-related litigation is a fact of life, and there will always be factors beyond their control.

As to changing requirements, in some fast-changing business environments, continuously modified requirements are a fact of life.

Quiet fact of life in a beautiful landscape.

Unfortunately, it appears patent infringement and suchlike is a fact of life for inventors.

There, drought was a fact of life. One year they had lost almost half their sheep.

We all make mistakes. It's a fact of life. What matters is what you do afterwards.

You need these people, so we just take it as a fact of life. You can't hedge labor.

But the logic of public consciousness is a fact of life. One has to reckon with it.

Job losses in the developed world are a fact of life and those losses are going to increase.

Stressful events are a fact of life. And you may not be able to change your current situation.

A fact of life for the conference interpreter in China, however, is the omnipresent mobile phone and its nerve-racking disturbances.

Cell phones, both legal and illegal, have become a fact of life only during the past five years.

Public opinion has accepted nuclear reactors as a fact of life.

I think people should be aware that mortality events in wildlife are normal. They are a fact of life.

She says such discrimination is a fact of life in Vietnam.

In Caracas, gang murders and kidnappings are a fact of life, and al Qaeda terrorists hide in plain sight in Karachi.

Police and crowd brutality is a fact of life in Colombia.

"Publish or perish" is a fact of life in academic world now.

Cyber-skiving is a fact of life at all levels in all companies.

That economic fact of life applies to nations, companies and individuals.

Suffering is a normal fact of life, distress and suffering always with our daily life.

This is a useful metric because some garbage collection is (for the time being) an inevitable fact of life for most applications.

Make their work more interesting. It's a fact of life: Familiarity does breed contempt.

Most people are inured to authoritarian rule as a fact of life.

It happens, it's a fact of life, you accept it, but you can also say, I will not accept this forever and that's what drives me.

He wanted, perhaps, to write about Aids as a fact of life rather than a fact of death.

It's a fact of life now that the internet will continue to change virtually every aspect of our everyday life.

It's a fact of life: Most of us married someone who wants sex more often or less often than we do.

death should be accepted as a fact of life.

But tests and standards are a necessary fact of life.

You may hate sales, but it's a fact of life for freelance businesses.

'You have to realize that risk is a fact of life, ' says Richard Peterson, a psychiatrist and director at research firm MarketPsych Data.

It's so pervasive that we have come to accept it as a fact of life, and it cannot help but have an effect on our minds.

High cocoa prices are already a fact of life for smaller producers.

In this world constant changes are a fact of life.

Screenwriter William Goldman once famously declared that the most important fact of life in Hollywood is that "nobody knows anything. "

While rent is merely a fact of life, it also holds a bizarre link to ping time.

It is a fact of life that job and career can be stressful.

It's a basic fact of life that, unless you're Will Rogers, you can't get along with everyone.

Revision is a fact of life in design.

Now, food lines are an accepted, if not expected, fact of life.

It is a fact of life that every monumental work will likely be surpassed.

Mutation has been and always will be an essential fact of life.

Death is the greatest fact of life.

Your uniqueness is a scientific fact of life.

Certain types of people are well suited to this fact of life.

A hard fact of life in almost any large organization is that from time to time complaints are received.

Equipment maintenance is a fact of life.

The biological clock is a fact of life, but there's nothing magical about age 35.

There isn't a person among us who doesn't procrastinate, and that's a fact of life.

Stress is a fact of life. It is important to remember that everyone undergoes stress.

Corruption is a fact of life on the mainland.

One has to come into touch with this enormous fact of life.

In America the "war on terror" is a fact of life, constantly reiterated.

It was, put simply, a fact of life.

So driving, alas, is a fact of life for me.

This is a fact of life before us, and such concerns should be duly addressed.

It's a fact of life that downturns and recessions often lead to layoffs.

Stress is a fact of life. And that's OK. You can handle it.

But unfortunately, it's a fact of life.

people love flattery. It's a fact of life.

Unfortunately we live in a world where spam is a fact of life.

Living with HIV is a fact of life for millions of people.

It's a fact of life. The problem is that email lacks transparency and accountability.

Slowly the fact of life came back to him.

Pressure is a fact of life.

The real meaning behind this fact of life is that we should not expect anything from anyone without a cost.

Anxiety is a fact of life.

Fact of Life # 37 - Bad moods happen.

Vacation depression is a fact of life for many people.

This is a fact of life for every wireless phone.

That is a fact of life. Luck favors the prepared, and it also favors the persistent.

It's a fact of life.

But on the other hand, the fact that a lot of people want you to do things is a fact of life.

What a sad fact of life this is!

It is a fact of life that science and religion will always come into conflict. Is this true?

It doesn't matter whether I like it or not; it's a fact of life.

But it's been a fact of life since as far back as the Renaissance

It's just a simple fact of life

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It's a fact of life that we're all in the game

Love: An Annoying Fact of Life