A child who repeatedly sees violence or insensitivity towards himself, other human beings or animals becomes desensitized himself. |
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This insensitivity must include disregarding the garbage that is thrown anywhere and everywhere on many a city street. |
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Mr Roth was immediately outraged at what he regarded as gross insensitivity and an attempt to create a false symmetry between the two deaths. |
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Incensed by his insensitivity and spurred onward by the events earlier in the evening, Lucy's eyes smoldered with resentment. |
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I could not even defend myself, because the charge of racism and racial insensitivity is ultimately unanswerable. |
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Properties include easy workability, adaptability and insensitivity to faulty manipulation possessed by mild steel. |
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The probable result of the insensitivity of TLC is an overestimation of the validity of self reported drug use. |
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With the emergence and spread of AIDS in Japan in the 1980s, insensitivity toward gay men heightened. |
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For all the insensitivity of this mistake, it represents the abysmal lack of knowledge about the Baltics in the minds of many a Westerner. |
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Euro-American stereotypes about native people arise from prejudice and insensitivity. |
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Through our bad parenting, which sets wrong examples, we have institutionalized insensitivity and indecency and made them virtues. |
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I am staggered by the insensitivity of this anonymous writer in raising this issue in a public forum where it was read by Tara's parents. |
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In other words, immunity against infectious agents is not a state of insensitivity, but rather a state of hypersensitiveness to constituents. |
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Our challenge is to be cautious not to take on a tone of self-righteousness and insensitivity to those whose policies we critique. |
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The degree of insensitivity to the two stereoisomers is different from that in wild type. |
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Because we are monitoring germination rates rather than a static time point, we could get a kinetic measurement of insensitivity. |
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Some of the alleles showed no significant difference in insensitivity to either isomer. |
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This single amino acid substitution has already been shown to confer such insensitivity in the monarch butterfly. |
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This relative insensitivity results from the balance of two countervailing factors. |
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His arrogance of manner and insensitivity on matters of social concern made him an unpredictable colleague in an era of populist politics. |
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Remarkably, the insensitivity to antibiotics exhibited by these cells is nonheritable. |
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We trace the evolution of this particular insensitivity in this group of beetles by analyzing a DNA sequence. |
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Their defense ministry is accused of cultural and environmental insensitivity. |
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In recent years, there has been no other court justice with a personal history so loaded with insensitivity to racial discrimination. |
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The officers have shown insensitivity towards the prisoners, who all share a common faith. |
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This player could not get away with such insensitivity, nor should his team. |
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Too often what one has regarded as necessary plain speaking, the other has seen has offensive insensitivity. |
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The racial offensiveness and insensitivity of his remarks and actions must be acknowledged, criticized, and vigorously resisted. |
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Could we ever break free from these shackles of social insensitivity and ignorance? |
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Its failure to delve properly into the past also explains its insensitivity to certain kinds of censorship and to the continued, heavy presence of secret police. |
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It indicates a critical insensitivity to the meaning of Hawthorne's text. |
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This is just another example of our insensitivity to cultural diversity. |
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The government made a historic error in the form of a terrible insensitivity. |
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We were the victims, and others acted with outrageous insensitivity to us. |
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A media firestorm ensued, with critics accusing the newspaper of sensationalism, poor journalistic judgment, and insensitivity to the victim's family. |
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These strains provided essential controls demonstrating the reproducibility of the quantitative assay and its insensitivity to general growth defects. |
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If such insensitivity was an inevitable property of multienzyme systems, then dominance in metabolism did not require an evolutionary explanation. |
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The indifference and insensitivity to democratic principles start here. |
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One side accuses the other of insensitivity to cultural losses. |
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Making the comments showed a great deal of insensitivity to your fellow countrymen, and a lack of foresight of the repercussions of such statements. |
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Fortunately, I've been blessed with a sufficient amount of social insensitivity not to worry too much. |
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Some have suggested catalepsy, a nervous condition that causes muscular rigidity, insensitivity to external stimuli and weak respiration. |
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We cannot remain impassive nor turn away with insensitivity and thoughtlessness. |
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Today more than ever, people will not tolerate a truth that might indeed be absolute, but is presented with insensitivity and without mercy. |
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The particular advantages of this type of sensor are good linearity, insensitivity to temperature variations, brief response time and long life. |
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The egregious situation that is Iraq was created by insensitivity toward, and lack of understanding of, Middle Eastern culture. |
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I know that any opposition to this fund may be interpreted as insensitivity to the negative effects of globalisation-related relocations. |
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Mr. Speaker, this government has just provided another example of its contempt for and insensitivity towards aboriginal peoples. |
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Also important is their resistance to seawater and their insensitivity to stress corrosion cracking. |
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To believe so would be to attribute to Me hardness, insensitivity, indifference, and selfishness. |
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However, the trial judge by his rulings may well have inadvertently created the impression of an insensitivity to the rights of minority groups. |
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Many voters, distressed by evidence of an economic slump and Liberal insensitivity to it, turned against the government. |
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The advantages of this series are ruggedness as well as insensitivity to buildup. |
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Communications also included one instance of racial insensitivity and comments expressing a desire to use improper force, and to work less. |
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Additionally, Greek attempts at restoration during the twentieth century have been equally criticised for their insensitivity and heavy-handedness. |
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At which point you might be baffled by the laughable insensitivity, or unsettled and disgusted by this appropriation. |
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It is a particularly sensitive time for advertising, an industry so inherently trivial that it is wide open to accusations of insensitivity and crassness. |
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His subsequent horror at his own insensitivity, of course, provided fodder for a column! |
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Somehow, the Virginia bill became a symbol of right-wing prurience, invasiveness, and insensitivity. |
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As Romney fends off attacks on his Mormon faith, he may soon face allegations of insensitivity toward Muslims. |
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There was relish in her voice, as she enjoyed defying the doctor for his insensitivity. |
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The work of Henry Reynolds has come under criticism for its universalist approach, bipolar categorisation, insensitivity to gender, and uncomplicated morality. |
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The insensitivity to dim stimuli is accompanied by a mild nyctalopia. |
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That paean to one man's oafishness and insensitivity, Curb Your Enthusiasm, is built around a comedian who couldn't make it in stand-up because he was too abrasive. |
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Whether intentional or not, the racial offensiveness and insensitivity of Summers' remarks and actions must be acknowledged, criticized, and vigorously resisted. |
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Washington should reciprocate and make amends for its past insensitivity. |
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Errant drivers simply have too much to lose as do the victims of their insensitivity and inattentiveness. |
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Reports described different aspects of the problems that migrants can face regarding health care, whether these are problems of exclusion, discrimination, or cultural insensitivity. |
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Without a pattern of racial insensitivity over time, probably not. |
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It is because globalisation will soon be complete that our insensitivity to unfair terms of trade and to the predictable, but unforeseeable, reactions of those concerned is untenable. |
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Inhibin-alpha CD99, HEA125, PLAP, and chromogranin immunoreactivity in testicular neoplasms and the androgen insensitivity syndrome. |
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Reasons cited for these negative perceptions included band council indifference and insensitivity to the participants' predicament and its preferential treatment to relatives of band council members. |
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There was also growing outrage at the king's insensitivity to social differences. |
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The benefits derived from this compared with traditional designs include enhanced operational reliability and a greater insensitivity to misalignment. |
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Just the insensitivity of having the murderers and the victims all being dealt with in the same process and the families mixing together. |
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Six Flags is meant to be a place for family fun, not a place to teach children insensitivity to animals. |
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Craig's parents and little sister are supportive, but the insensitivity of his so-called friends reveals his isolation as an adolescent. |
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The court found the evidence amounted to a difficult relationship, with some insensitivity on the part of the mother and the stepfather, and from time to time some inappropriate chastisement. |
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The supposedly troublesome characteristics of the pit-bull type — its gameness, its determination, its insensitivity to pain — are chiefly directed toward other dogs. |
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Both the abnormalcy of the conditions and the subject's insensitivity to their abnormalcy are understandable. |
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The director's insensitivity to actors made Gielgud nervous and further increased his dislike of filming. |
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Media coverage of Bruno's problems raised controversy, the principal accusations being gross intrusion and insensitivity. |
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That kind of insensitivity and lack of lateral thinking on the part of the government is exactly presented in the comments that we have heard lately by the minister. |
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The insensitivity, not to say incredible hardheartedness of the past two decades has such an impact on us that we have to belabour the point, in order to make this change in ideas and attitudes more apparent. |
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Full color blindness and insensitivity to blue light are relatively rare. |
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And it's a sobering lesson about the real world. The no-holds-barred atmosphere of divorce promotes greed, insensitivity, anger, hatred, mistrust, violence, and threats. |
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The CBSC has explained that in order for a program to constitute a breach of the Code, it would have to contain harsh language or imagery, nastiness, utter insensitivity or the like. |
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Their insatiable appetite for massive wealth at any cost has pushed them to the point of blindness, insensitivity to human suffering and the loss of human life in the developing world, especially in Africa. |
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The legislation was introduced to appease resentment of the central government's control of natural resource revenues and its insensitivity to regional differences. |
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This effect is of particular importance in diabetes care and prevention: abdominal adiposity is strongly associated with the metabolic syndrome, insensitivity to insulin and the development of type 2 diabetes. |
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Sensitivity to human rights did not imply insensitivity to other rights and, as a requirement for appointment, it would exclude only people with closed minds on human rights issues. |
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Smoke detectors to be installed in other spaces shall operate within sensitivity limits to the satisfaction of the Administration of the flag State, having regard to the avoidance of detector insensitivity or oversensitivity. |
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Since this government was elected we've seen nothing but insensitivity, disrespect and broken promises for First Nations and Metis people of Saskatchewan. |
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Recalcitrants who violate the PC taboo are likely to be subjected to a media keelhauling and accused of intolerance, racism, bigotry, and insensitivity. |
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Many people who have tried out Windows 8 on devices that support touchscreenhave been disappointedby its balkiness and seeming insensitivity to finger swipes. |
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Singhvi recently wrote an opinion piece in an English daily criticising Ramakrishnan for his insensitivity to the compatriotic feelings of Indians. |
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Since mastication time and total mixing time are approximately linearly dependent on the two unit work variables, insensitivity to mixing time can also be inferred. |
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For related phenomena, see Androgen insensitivity syndrome and Intersex. |
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This was necessary because of the relative insensitivity of the commonly used pregnancy tests that required levels of 1,000 IU hCG or more to show a positive result. |
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