Sentences with phrase «highly insensitive»

The editorial was also criticized by state Sen. Spencer Coggs, D - Milwaukee, who said the headline «harkens back to an antiquated stereotype,» and by former state Supreme Court Justice William Bablitch, who said, «At the very least, it's highly insensitive.

Additionally, it would be useful to discuss the teacher attitudes and frustrations expressed in the teacher lounge — some are highly insensitive to the realities of these kids, and many are just frustrated, not knowing how best to reach them.

The system is also highly insensitive to input pupil variations, isolating the spectrograph from telescope illumination variations and seeing changes.

ULC described honouring of Zuma by the governor as highly insensitive and contemptuous of not only the people of Imo State but also possessed the dangers to Nigeria if not roundly condemned and excoriated by well - meaning Nigerians.

Here in Santa Fe, in the heart of the tricultural Southwest (Indian, Hispanic and Anglo), an attitude such as Thompson's appears outmoded and highly insensitive to Native Americans, their heritage and their religious beliefs.

Linton subsequently apologized for her statement, calling her comments «inappropriate and highly insensitive.»

Not exact matches

While the market value of a floater under normal circumstances is relatively insensitive to changes in interest rates, the income received is, of course, highly dependent upon the level of the reference rate over the life of the investment.

But it's the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network that is squawking over J.Lo's «Monster - in - Law,» saying it is insensitive to people with food allergies because of a scene in which Jane Fonda's character sneaks nuts into the food of her hated and highly allergic daughter - in - law, played by Lopez.

Both extreme positions are highly provocative and insensitive — at least to the still extant reasoning lobby, clustered mid of the two extremes.

«It would have been insensitive on our part to default paying our highly respected and understanding civil servants on the excuse of having enough funds.

In a 2007 evaluation, WHO, along with UNICEF, the United Nations Development Programme, and the World Bank, concluded that the 19 commercially available blood tests were highly unspecific and insensitive.

To obtain good performance with a simple process and reduced cost, we designed a modulus - gradient structure to use graphene as both the highly sensitive strain - sensing element and the insensitive stretchable electrode of the ECD layer.

It's also highly desirable to find a energetic materials that require less quantity, maintains high performance, are insensitive and aren't adversely affected by large temperature changes.»

Cash is held by highly risk - averse investors who are, by and large, price - insensitive.

Last year's Berlin Biennale, curated by the artist collective DIS, was highly contested (critics called it an «ultra-sarcastic,» politically insensitive show that ignored prescient issues like the European immigration crises in favor of the «ultra-slick» commercial aesthetics of post-internet art).

But in these highly charged times, it went from being almost universally well received for its political engagement to being the center of protests when an abstracted painting by the white artist Dana Schutz of the body of Emmett Till was condemned as an example of insensitive cultural appropriation.

In that context, industrials will have to compete aggressively for volumes with highly price insensitive utilities which can easily pass on the carbon cost to consumers.

In humans, both the HPA system and the autonomic nervous system show developmental changes in infancy, with the HPA axis becoming organized between 2 and 6 months of age and the autonomic nervous system demonstrating relative stability by 6 to 12 months of age.63 The HPA axis in particular has been shown to be highly responsive to child - caregiver interactions, with sensitive caregiving programming the HPA axis to become an effective physiological regulator of stress and insensitive caregiving promoting hyperreactive or hyporeactive HPA systems.17 Several animal models as well as human studies also support the connection between caregiver experiences in early postnatal life and alterations of autonomic nervous system balance.63 - 65 Furthermore, children who have a history of sensitive caregiving are more likely to demonstrate optimal affective and behavioral strategies for coping with stress.66, 67 Therefore, children with histories of supportive, sensitive caregiving in early development may be better able to self - regulate their physiological, affective, and behavioral responses to environmental stressors and, consequently, less likely to manifest disturbed HPA and autonomic reactivity that put them at risk for stress - related illnesses such as asthma.

The videos, highly suspect because of how they were produced, contain callous, even insensitive, discussion of medical procedures and aborted fetal tissue, but there is no instance of any Planned Parenthood official discussing the sale of fetal tissue for profit.

Based on the finding that a certain extent of insensitive and negative parenting reduces behavioral inhibition (Park et al. 1997), Belsky et al. (1996) argue that moderate levels of coparental undermining may toughen up highly reactive children who are at risk for behavioral inhibition and anxiety.