Sentences with phrase «'m impervious»

The cost of health insurance premiums has skyrocketed by more than 130 percent over the past decade, and it is possible they will be impervious to reform efforts.

It's rainy and cold, and Smith is wearing only a tank top and jeans, but he's impervious to the chill.

Believing that blockchain will be impervious to greed ignores the fact that anything created by a human can be manipulated by a human — especially if there is a financial incentive.

Unlike fire, the written word, gunpowder, the wheel, modern monetary systems, political parties, nuclear energy, television, the internet, Facebook, and Twitter, blockchain will be unique among all the other things human beings have invented and will be impervious to corruption, greed, and the lust for power.

As I've noted before, since the start of 2013 — when the «fiscal cliff» calamity was averted at the very last minute with a deal struck between Vice President Joe Biden and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R - KY)-- investors have been impervious to the sorts of anxiety attacks that caused significant corrections during the first four years of the bull market.

It is reasonable to bet that Poloz was never tempted by disco because he has proven himself to be impervious to fads.

The savviest negotiators take nothing personally; they are impervious to criticism and impossible to fluster.

As an entrepreneur, what I seek, and what I suppose most people seek, is inner peace, a state of tranquility that's impervious to external factors, good or bad.

In the weeks after the deadly Parkland, Florida, school shooting, Trump has, at turns, been sympathetic to student survivors who are demanding action to address gun violence, and he has sought to appease gun - rights proponents who are impervious to calls for reform.

Some people are impervious to sickness.»

It is difficult to understand why the record burden of consumer debt will be impervious to a rising unemployment rate, particularly when companies are facing a substantial acceleration in wage inflation in recent months as they try to shore up profit margins - making substantial new layoffs inevitable.

Markets appear to be impervious to any news that may be negative.

This virus is impervious to almost all kinds of treatment.

An inevitable temptation of Christian theology, and particularly so in our own time, has been to think that the idea or symbol of an actual end of the world was no part of the original proclamation of Jesus, and rather derived either from the apocalyptic religious world that so dominated Jesus» disciples or from the all - too - human or fleshy component of their minds and hearts, which was impervious to the higher call of the Spirit.

I need hardly say that this is no brief for the traditional sanctimonious patter of the churches that have retreated into their piety, or for the mediocre, musty, introverted, and highly moral lives of many Christians, who are impervious to the violence of love and the power of the Spirit.

«Much to our dismay then, we will find that the text is impervious to many of the questions that consume us in today's dialogues.

The «Christ without culture» model would seem to produce a circumstance in which religion is impervious to culture and culture is impervious to religion.

Anxiety and depression are impervious to accolades or achievements.

And while we are on the subject of being cognitive: a feature of normal cognition is a confirmation bias that allows us to be impervious to contradictory evidence and only notice information that confirms our pre-existing beliefs, hence the cherry picking, reinterpreting and mixing of what is convenient which has led to the approximately 40,000 Christian denominations and organizations in the world (Center for the Study of Global Christianity (CSGC) at Gordon - Conwell Theological Seminary).

Some Catholics seem to be impervious to Catholic - bashing.

Cliches are false typifications of persons, movements, or events that are impervious to qualification by complicating knowledge.

But a philosophy that does not recognize a distinct physical component in food and atomic explosions, one that is impervious to how humans think about them, is inadequate.

Fanatics are impervious to reasoning and will stop at nothing to achieve their ends, passionately believing them to be not their own ends but God's.

Once a True Believer assumes that a sacred text is infallible or the direct word of a god or gods, he or she is impervious to evidence to the contrary.

I know that his isn't what you're talking about but I'm amazed that the people who criticize you — the same ones that have accepted comfort and encouragement from you when times were tough — think you're impervious to their cutting remarks.

A Court majority is impervious to arguments about its proper behavior.

Without this stance of openness the lower would be impervious to any integration into the higher, and so there would be no possibility of creative advance in the universe.

This instant LED curing ink is impervious to environmental factors such as sunlight, water, moisture, temperature, and contains virtually no VOC's, making it ideal for bakery applications.

It is only an opinion, but one that is held by an ever growing number of Arsenal fans, that the reason why Arsene Wenger seems to be impervious to the sort of sackings that we see in football all the time is because he runs the club on a sound financial footing.

Let's institute a special rule: The baskets are impervious to high wind and there is a force field around the court so we don't have foreign objects (other than the ball and, uh, Spartans) flying around.

Cold, callus, and calculating, they stop at nothing to get what they want, and they are impervious to consequences and punishment.

They talked about how Masters week was an economy unto itself, that the high - rolling trip to Augusta had become central to American corporate life and was impervious to economic gyrations.

Why you should care: Okay so also Roman Reigns is friends with former Shield member Seth Rollins again because The Authority turned on their golden boy and made him realize that, hey, teaming with Reigns wasn't so bad, sure he's impervious to damage and people boo him sometimes but at least you can trust him.

If eggs are laid onto a clean dry surface, then when they cool they remain clean and are impervious to bacterial penetration.

So are you impervious to that pressure?

Some of our own comrades chose to be impervious to reality and we experienced a crushing defeat that haunts many till today.

He is impervious to the hardships Ghanaians are going through on a daily basis, in their efforts to make ends meet.

Clegg has shown himself to be impervious to criticism.

Creating a funding regime that is impervious to unfair access may be beyond these or any other reforms but we can, at the very least, aspire to something better for both parties and voters.

The handle forms around the Santoku knives tang and is impervious to heat, cold and moisture.

Mice that were genetically altered to lack Nppb or in which the receptor for the chemical was damaged were impervious to itch - inducing chemicals — but still sensed pain and heat.

To hunt for drugs that target these cells, Piyush Gupta, a molecular biologist at the Broad Institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and colleagues genetically engineered ordinary human cells so that they acquired some of the properties of cancer stem cells, including being impervious to chemotherapy.

Dubbed the sterile neutrino, this phantom particle would carry no charge of any kind and would be impervious to all forces other than gravity.

But after that, you'll have decades of professional life left in which you'll be able to go to work every day believing in what you're doing, knowing that your research is impervious to the criticism of your backwards uncle.

Birds, by contrast, seem to be impervious to capsaicin, apparently because they lack the right shape of a receptor — an ion channel — on their mucous membranes.

Profligate use of Roundup, once billed as a miracle herbicide, has generated a large and growing wave of weeds that are impervious to it.

Biotechnologist James Dale and colleagues at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, cloned a resistance gene named RGA2 from a type of wild banana that's impervious to TR4 and inserted it into the Cavendish, creating six lines with varying numbers of RGA2 copies.

Machines with the patch were impervious.

To water their orchards and fields, they dug lengthy canals to channel glacier - fed rivers that were impervious to drought.

The spin of an electron — like a perpetually spinning quantum top — can only be described as either up or down, and it is impervious to simple imperfections in the material.