Sentences with phrase «insensitive in»

His departure comes on the heels of a racially - charged debate over a Kelley Walker exhibition that many found insensitive in the context of a city with so much recent race - based unrest.

Blood cultures may be particularly insensitive in small dogs and cats as it may not be possible to obtain adequate sample volume.

Because of their buying power, government - related purchasers of health care also tend to be price - sensitive purchasers of health care, leading health care providers to shift costs to private purchasers that are price - insensitive in the short run.

Commenting on the matter, the failed National Youth Organiser aspirant of the NPP said reverend Osei Bonsu has been very insensitive in his comments on the matter.

In places where Mark has been insensitive in the past, he seems to have softened a bit.

Lol David — I don't intend to be insensitive in laughing, rather, to laugh at the silliness of it, a comedy tutor once said to me that comedy is about alchemising what has been pain into passages of great beauty.

The event was seen as hugely insensitive in the wake of the Parkland shootings, in which a gunman used a weapon similar to the AR - 15 rifle to take 17 lives and was protested by members of the community.

It was particularly insensitive in that last week coincided with Holocaust Memorial Day.

To Wells Fargo analysts however, the bonuses seem insensitive in light of the company's recent history with drug price gouging allegations.

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Though she never took an active role in running the superstore like her brothers, she's become the target of pushback from minimum - wage Walmart employees who view her highfalutin lifestyle as insensitive and ignorant to the plights of many workers.

Far from offering the sort of insightful, well - informed take that has brought the site as many as 35 million monthly uniques and won kudos from everyone from Nas to Junot D?az, they were more akin to the sort of juvenile remark one might find buried in the comments thread on a low - budget news aggregator: cruel, idiotic, shockingly insensitive, and misogynistic.

«More than two decades ago, I co-wrote a book with several insensitive, crudely argued statements,» he said in a statement.

At the root of the issue are so - called systematic investors, which are forced to reduced positions during times of turbulence and frequently trade in price - insensitive fashion.

Last week, Royal London Asset Management branded the proposed increase in Dudley's pay as «unreasonable and insensitive» and said it would vote against the report.

«It was not our intent to be insensitive to issues of authenticity and ethnicity, and we will look to recast the part with an actor more consistent with the character in the source material.»

In my experience, 100 percent of the time that I've made the decision to let chronically insensitive staff go, it's been the right choice for the business.

«I mistakenly used an inappropriate and insensitive reference to the Holocaust, for which, frankly, there is no comparison,» Spicer said in an interview with CNN host Wolf Blitzer.

Much like Dove, Pepsi, and Kellogs, brands that recently found themselves in similar public relations debacles due to culturally insensitive promotional materials, H&M issued an apology.

He went further in Sunday's column: «If you look at the intraday chart on Friday you can see where the market was trying to rally and then Bullard came out with his incredibly insensitive comments....

They were bought by a cash - rich giant who already invested in previous rounds and is relatively price insensitive.

«This subject matter, in the wake of the state's deadliest wildfires in history, is incredibly insensitive, dangerous, and most definitely not funny.

First Call is tailor made for aggressive, risk - insensitive investors who have one goal in mind: wealth creation.

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.

«The later stages of the 2009 — 2017 bull market are a valuation illusion built on share buyback alchemy... The technique optically reduces the price - to - earnings multiple because the denominator doesn't adjust for the reduced share count... Share buybacks are a major contributor to the low volatility regime because a large price insensitive buyer is always ready to purchase the market on weakness... Share buybacks result in a lower volatility, lower liquidity, which in turn incentivizes more share buybacks, further incentivizing passive and systematic strategies that are short volatility in all their forms... Like a snake eating its own tail, the market can not rely on share buybacks indefinitely to nourish the illusion of growth.

We have christians fighting to make public school give them time to pray and have church clubs, but when jews or muslims do it in a public place it requires a call to the FBI and they claim the jews are being insensitive?

The preist was in the wrong, and his actions are insensitive and off base.

It's especially insensitive given the timing of the article and the situation today for Christians in parts of Africa and the middle East.

I hope that pious, insensitive professor does not have any contact someone who is dying or in need of spiritual uplifting.

If this article had the Playboy sitting in the Muslim version of the Bible or it showed a Muslim man looking at it, Americans would be crying about how insensitive it is...

Perhaps once or twice a year I may react in an insensitive manner.

This has nothing to do with Muslims... It is called economy... in free market I can sell my goods to anybody I like to or not... If you think not selling goods to another nation is being insensitive than I have news for you... so called EU christian countrys are guilty beyond your imagination for not selling certein things to Muslim countries..

We have also become aware that the anthropocentrism that characterizes much of the Judeo - Christian tradition has often fed a sensibility insensitive to our proper place in the universe.2 The ecological crisis, epitomized in the possibility of a nuclear holocaust, has brought home to many the need for a new mode of consciousness on the part of human beings, for what Rosemary Ruether calls a «conversion» to the earth, a cosmocentric sensibility (Ruether, 89).3

In the aftermath of the Religious Right's ascendancy, it is not an accident that «anti-homosexual» is the number one perception of Christians in America these days, followed closely by «judgmental» and «hypocritical» and «insensitive.&raquIn the aftermath of the Religious Right's ascendancy, it is not an accident that «anti-homosexual» is the number one perception of Christians in America these days, followed closely by «judgmental» and «hypocritical» and «insensitive.&raquin America these days, followed closely by «judgmental» and «hypocritical» and «insensitive.»

There is no decisive line of demarcation in the universe that segregates experience on the one side from insensitive objects on the other.

They failed to understand how Catholic practice actually worked; they were insensitive to the capacity of certain ritual acts to foster a sense of mystery and awe in the presence of God» that is, to put one in touch with the holy.

As an African American Christian who grew up in Robertson's neck of the woods with aunts and uncles who absolutely experienced racial discrimination in the 1950s and 60s, I find his comments about happy, singing Black people to be insensitive and unconscionable.

As an African American woman, it tells me that the Church is not interested in Calvary - like reconciliation; we'd rather stop short at empty words of «I'm with the blacks» and insensitive generalizations like «they were godly; they were happy» and uneducated assumptions that, because you have not heard, seen, or have been party to mistreatment, it doesn't exist.

«Early in development, we think these epi - marks are laid down so that girl fetuses will be relatively insensitive to testosterone and male fetuses will be relatively sensitive to testosterone,» Rice said.

In the typical Tarzan episode a young man or woman, weak or insensitive or greedy, is taught a lesson at the same time he or she is being saved from some terrible fate.

«15 In his «Notes on Virginia» of 1781 Jefferson foresaw a future «total emancipation» but was not insensitive to the irony of a people fighting for its own freedom keeping another in subjectioIn his «Notes on Virginia» of 1781 Jefferson foresaw a future «total emancipation» but was not insensitive to the irony of a people fighting for its own freedom keeping another in subjectioin subjection.

Though Monday's decision by the District Court of Cologne does not outlaw circumcision, it is still «outrageous and insensitive,» Dieter Graumann, head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, said in a statement issued Tuesday.

Among both Roman Catholics and Protestants in Germany there were those who, as the New Testament says about the apostle Paul's involvement in the martyrdom of Stephen, were «consenting to the death» of the Jews (Acts 8:1), and many more who were (as it seems now, by hindsight) blindly insensitive to the situation.

The Church of Scotland has condemned an insensitive act toward Muslims in Fife over the weekend.

Wow, that's pretty insensitive to even think about Blessed John Paul II not being in the blissful presence of the Almighty.

In addition to being insensitive and unfeeling toward non-homosexuals who are coping with sexuality and its discontents, the activist literature is typically cruel and slanderous in its explanation of why most people have negative views of homosexualitIn addition to being insensitive and unfeeling toward non-homosexuals who are coping with sexuality and its discontents, the activist literature is typically cruel and slanderous in its explanation of why most people have negative views of homosexualitin its explanation of why most people have negative views of homosexuality.

I can't imagine being that insensitive, but it was a long time ago and my memory isn't exact in these matters.

They were perfect examples of what it meant not to be aware of the realities of life, ignorant in the sense of being insensitive or of taking a partial experience and believing itto be the total experience of all human beings.

To be unaware of the true dimensions of life, to be insensitive to the realities beyond your narrow little swath of existence, to talk to no one save the people who mirror your own prejudices back to you, to be the victim of your own narrow insecurity in life, this is to bear false witness just as surely as if you testified to the truth of a lie under oath.

• 91 % anti-h0mosëxual • 87 % judgmental • 85 % hypocritical • 78 % old - fashioned • 75 % too involved in politics • 70 % out of touch with reality • 70 % insensitive to others

I said, «The truth is I just got through conducting a wedding, and I have been angry all day that anyone would be so insensitive as to schedule their wedding on the one Saturday in December when the Washington Redskins were playing the Dallas Cowboys in a return match, with a shot at the Super Bowl going to the winner.»