By the mid-16th century the physical faculties of Ngawang Tashi Drakpa began to decline.

He maintained a meditative pose upon the floor of the Pit, conserving his mental and physical faculties as much as possible.

Time wore down mental and physical faculties.

To develop the physical faculties of the students.

Chinese people's physical faculties drop sharply after they turned 40.

-perhaps it was true, horribly, that intelligence, like more gross physical faculties, declines as age comes on.

Moderate: involves field work requiring complete control of physical faculties and may include considerable walking, standing, and lifting 25-50 lbs.

In this way he was robbed of his physical faculties to continue with his musical work and confined over years to a wheel-chair.

As his mental and physical faculties decayed, he began to lose the battle he had fought for so long against the "black dog" of depression.

But the work is also a moving testament to the persistence of vision, or the visual imagination in the absence of the physical faculty of sight.