This is unfortunate, since he has usually been immune to such literary affectations. |
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Claims that cannot be tested, assertions immune to disproof are veridically worthless. |
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Are the other political parties immune to this disease and therefore as clean as a whistle in this regard? |
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The easiest people to deceive are those who think that they are immune to deception. |
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Aldeburgh is the next coastal town south of Southwold but it remains partially immune to characterful paintwork and prettification. |
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They cost the same as hammerers, have the same stats but get a shield and are immune to panic instead of stubborn. |
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Like Virender Sehwag, Afridi is immune to vagaries such as the condition of the pitch and the state of play. |
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She's widely regarded as one of the most beautiful women in the world, but even she's not immune to the pain of a broken heart. |
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Even the Buena Vista camp, for all its carefully maintained old-world charm, has not been immune to outside influences. |
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With my flattops and buzz cuts, I'm fairly immune to hat hair but I wear baseball caps practically everywhere. |
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Although no facility can be considered immune to attack, some are less likely targets than others. |
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And gay people are no more immune to this accusation than are straight people. |
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Even the police detective, who leads the enquiry into multiple murders on the property, is not immune to a touch of the heebie-jeebies. |
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Whether they admit it or not, no celebrity is immune to the orange-peel effect we call cellulite. |
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Fitzgerald believes the group should be relatively immune to economic slowdown. |
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Because it has diversified from gaming and tourism, Las Vegas is no longer immune to U.S. recessional trends, he said. |
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The monsters you'll face are often immune to at least one style, so an overspecialized character is going to find himself in a lot of trouble. |
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There are reports that hog-nosed skunks in the Andes are immune to the venom of pit vipers. |
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If you are thinking about becoming pregnant, make sure that you are immune to rubella through a blood test or proof of immunization. |
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Contracting the disease once does not render a person immune to future infections, which is why getting routine boosters is so important. |
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All of this is narrated by Michael, the only one of the quartet immune to the infection. |
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Most women of childbearing age are immune to rubella because they either were vaccinated or had the illness during childhood. |
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In this way, vaccinations allow you to become immune to an infection without having the illness first. |
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Those who were born before 1956 are considered to be immune to measles and mumps and don't require these vaccines. |
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Birds that exhibit no infection may be immune to parasites or susceptible but not yet exposed. |
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And in case anybody at home thinks allergists are immune to getting allergies themselves, you yourself get shots. |
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When a human being becomes immune to an infection, the immunity is usually due to blood cells, lymphocytes, that produce antibodies. |
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Because dead wood is immune to termites and wood-rotting fungi, large trees can take a millennium to weather away after dying. |
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This is an inactive version of the infection and the body produces antibodies to fight it so that you are then immune to it. |
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Even those at the top were not immune to the stress created by 70-hour workweeks. |
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Zorses are also almost immune to hot weather, and zorses do not seem to tire. |
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As every flu season tells us, developed nations are far from immune to communicable disease. |
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Cows and newly calved heifers are immune to gutworms and very rarely show any signs of infection. |
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But even you, with your morning cardio and your power breakfast, are not immune to the black hole known as afternoon. |
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Surprisingly, virtually all domesticated animals are naturally immune to funnel-web spider venoms. |
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Judging by recent films, things may not be quite rotten in Denmark, but Scandinavians seem no more immune to family horrors than we do. |
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At speed the car is notably refined and proved all but immune to the violent crosswinds we encountered on the launch. |
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This makes wireless networks more immune to interference from other radio signals than if they transmitted on a single frequency. |
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Sitting at a nearby table, under a revolving mirror ball, Steve seems immune to such louche diversions. |
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Death investigation and forensic pathology are also not immune to misinterpretation. |
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She is far from immune to the lovable Raymond, but she really carries a torch for his big lug of a brother. |
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The sheep lack the wool and the folds of skin between the legs found on normal Merinos, and so are relatively immune to fly strike. |
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Regardless of the rules of a scheme, no pension fund is immune to financial disaster. |
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The parakeets seem to be immune to scarecrows, things that go bang and all the other bird-scaring devices. |
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The court proved immune to these piteous cries and upheld the sentence, anyway. |
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The system, while certainly not immune to boom and busts, at least had a mechanism of self-regulation and correction. |
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Will we become immune to it and eventually need a whole pill to get the same results? |
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She'd like more control over her emotions so as to appear immune to perceived insults and snubs. |
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Most paralysis ticks lodge onto passing indigenous species that are immune to their toxins. |
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Only this time you are older, less immune to the noise and you want to get on with enjoying your own second childhood. |
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Absorbed in the intricacies of artful expression, the young participants seem immune to the heat. |
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Australians are not immune to the financial illiteracy problem and symptoms here, just as elsewhere, abound. |
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This puffin seemed immune to the wind, as it contemplated the black sand beaches below, and completely ignored us. |
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Behind racism is a sort of double-think that renders belief in the determining importance of race immune to contrary evidence. |
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Of course rap is immune to criticism, since it's supposed to offend our sensibilities, not flatter them. |
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So long has he is steeped in his loneliness, he's immune to friendly overtures. |
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The delight he takes in besting his father at ping pong suggests that even he has not been immune to the old man's poison. |
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Graceful and outgoing to others, they seem almost immune to tension and anxiety. |
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These organizations are supposedly immune to quackery, pseudoscience, and plain swindles. |
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And we have become almost immune to those harbingers of doom who foretell the end of the world. |
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The BBC is not immune to this, with programmes and presenters behaving exactly as their commercial counterparts. |
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I guess there are only so many classics and back home you almost become immune to their charms. |
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At the same time, the hype notwithstanding, large parts of the country remain immune to media influence. |
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The murkiness and chaos that attend armed conflict mean military actions are hardly immune to mistake. |
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His ambition fueled him onward, rendering him immune to pain or trivial distractions. |
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A blood test will show whether you are already immune to the hepatitis A virus, due to previous infection. |
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If you are not sure whether you are immune to rubella, you can see your GP or practice nurse for a blood test to find out. |
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A horse with a hard mouth is basically immune to the amount of pressure given by the bit. |
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Even if nations vaccinate their entire populations, they will not remain immune to the pandemic shock. |
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Foreign policy coordination is mostly immune to specific goals or timetables. |
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Of course, the market is not immune to the domestic economy and its recent rally is partly explained by a brighter outlook for interest rates. |
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I am the most powerful of the Vampire race and have become immune to all weaknesses, making me unkillable and everlasting. |
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As Wimbledon go under, we are immune to their pain, unmoved by their plight. |
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Even though men are often centralised in these knowledge systems, it does not mean that they are immune to their influence. |
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The trend has surprised industry observers, who say soju has been immune to the effects of economic recessions in the past. |
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Shoppers are becoming immune to the annual invitation to spend all their cash before the first window on the Advent calendar has been opened. |
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Consumer electronics has so far appeared relatively immune to the economic downturn. |
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As a non-science, psychology is immune to disproof of its claims. |
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As a Washington attorney, he took on companies that seemed immune to change, even when they were ineffective. |
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Their captors wore palm leaves, leopard skins, and magical relics to make themselves immune to bullets. |
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Unconventional warfighters like terrorists are by definition immune to the massive concentrations of power that are the traditional object of a mobilization. |
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They're even immune to the venom of rattlesnakes and other pit vipers. |
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Younger women are also not immune to the ravages of this disease. |
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The hills of Ibiza are covered in savine pine trees which are prized for their wood because it is immune to woodworm and therefore excellent in the construction of interiors. |
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Camels obviously evolved in an extremely harsh environment and are immune to diseases such as rinderpest and foot-and-mouth that afflict other mammals. |
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Watching them frolicking on Cape Cod with their cousins, I sometimes assumed they must be immune to such feelings. |
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We act as if we lived in a gated community, immune to history, as if everything were happening for the first time. |
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Now, though, the boffins have seemingly invented a super salmon which is immune to diseases such as ISA and grows six times faster than the rate of normal farmed fish. |
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Few of us are immune to the lure of a stylish piece of furniture or accessory for the home, but all too often the choice can be small for buyers on a limited budget. |
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The Schick test, in which a tiny quantity of diphtheria toxin protein is injected into the skin of the forearm, can show whether an individual is immune to diphtheria. |
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But it is worrying that not even Congress is immune to this type of behavior. |
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The jibe is off-key too because Wilde himself was hardly immune to the sentimental and even the mawkish. |
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But no political parties are immune to the infection of kleptocracy in Ukraine. |
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There are no real, long-term safe havens that are immune to synchronous shocks. |
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But the traditional ice skating establishment was immune to her tomboy charms. |
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Even so, he is not totally immune to the trappings of success. |
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Experience has shown that attempting to produce audio disks that are compatible with existing players but which are immune to ripping or burning is fraught with problems. |
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The multilateral governance system remains largely unreformed and apparently immune to changes in business practice. |
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Is it likely that those faced with such great and glittering prizes will be wholly immune to their attractions, or that their objectivity will be unimpaired? |
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Since no Pigs are immune to PEDv, the virus has spread quickly, with high death rates in its path. |
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It's been spouted by so many generations of professional speechifiers that it's easy to be immune to its propagandist agenda of cultural nationalism. |
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No region in the state is immune to a withering norther, but the odds of connecting with fishable conditions improve the farther south you are willing to travel. |
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Zine editors, we are told, feel they are immune to the restrictions of copyright, libel and obscenity laws, grammar, punctuation, spelling, and pagination. |
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While not completely immune to the rightward pull of his party, Graham has dared stick his nose outside the Republican tent. |
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Traditional societies in underdeveloped countries are no more immune to creeping moral decay than their more sophisticated cousins in rich, developed nations. |
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Once someone has had chickenpox, they are immune to further infection. |
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Even if you know you have had the rubella vaccination, your body may not have made enough antibodies to make you immune to the virus, so it is best to check. |
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Hidden behind ever-present sunglasses, he appeared immune to pressure. |
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The political class has become largely immune to the heartache of war. |
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Not some rude, ignorant, person who appears to have no respect for either his office or the people of Tasmania, and flouts our laws as if he is someone who is immune to them. |
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No one is immune to the dollar sign, but the top illuminati can get it from many places, so the writing has to be on the page as well as on the checks. |
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This well illustrates that even the best regulated national fisheries are not immune to improvident policies motivated by short-term social and political concerns. |
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We start to believe that police departments, with their honor, duty, and mission, are immune to the red tape that slows down progress in the rest of the world. |
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Once incorporated into the cortex of the hair, these traces of drug are permanently retained and substantially immune to any attempts to remove them. |
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Having been inoculated with cowpox, Phipps was now immune to smallpox. |
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There's no way that the players or management staff, or those who still man the offices and shop, are immune to the confusion crowding in on their place of work. |
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You probably think that I've just been prattling away aimlessly on these pages for the past three and a half years, immune to the vagaries of the wonderful world of weblogs. |
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A law of nature must be immune to such possible disconfirmation. |
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First, these results prove that drug use is prevalent among arrestees and discredits the notion that rural communities are immune to this particular problem. |
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They are, of course, immune to the notion of money as an end in itself. |
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By 1768, English physician John Fewster had realised that prior infection with cowpox rendered a person immune to smallpox. |
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Whelan said they were immune to poisons warfarin and bromadiolone and want permission to use new bait. |
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Popular belief at the time was that this scientific approach to cartography was immune to the social atmosphere. |
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Furthermore, supply bills passed by the House of Commons are immune to amendments in the House of Lords. |
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Roman roads were constructed to be immune to floods and other environmental hazards. |
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Cryokinetics are especially helpful around avalanches and icebergs. They are also immune to frostbite. |
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This was resolved by retrofitting bombs with Global Positioning System satellite guidance devices that are immune to bad weather. |
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Building the hall in stone did not necessarily make it immune to fire as it still had windows and a wooden door. |
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Today's remaining wild rabbits in Australia are largely immune to myxomatosis. |
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The Indigita chip also makes the Sony hard drive immune to video drop-outs, a common drawback of tape drives. |
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Gill also revealed he has not been immune to Fergie's famous hairdryer treatment. |
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That evergreen glacial depreciator, the Porsche Boxster, isn't immune to the credit crunch, with early R and S-plate tackle down to eight grand. |
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The patients would then develop a mild case of the disease and from then on were immune to it. |
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Seemingly immune to the onslaught of the digital age, Ceefax celebrates its 30th birthday today. |
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For a southerner, he is relatively immune to the cult of Bobby Lee. |
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Now caravanning has become another medium for people, now immune to cheap foreign holidays, to capture the nostalgia of their youth. |
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Prime ministers have not been immune to spreading alternative facts. |
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It grows up to 15cm and with no predators and an extra layer of protective slime making them immune to most products, it outcompetes all its fellow UK slugs. |
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Months later, the boy was immune to infection with Variola virus. |
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But flashbulb memories are neither always accurate nor immune to forgetting, report psychologist Michael McCloskey and his colleagues at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. |
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And this is worse, because to do this is to make yourself, in your own mind, immune to criticism, which will serve to make you even more infallibilist. |
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As a nation we seem to be callously indifferent to the misery of even our own compatriots, kith and kin, and stone-heartedly immune to the woes of others. |
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Even at a young age, John was not popular among the peers of the kingdom since he was immune to external influence and appeared to despise intrigue. |
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No longer immune to efforts at downsizing government, law enforcement agencies must reduce unnecessary, or outdated, programs or civilianize traditionally sworn positions. |
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By etching into the rock-like data layer, a permanent physical data record is created that is immune to data rot caused by light, heat, humidity and more. |
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In the first half of the novel, a dystopic vision, most of America's inhabitants fall ill and die, while Joy and a handful of others remain immune to the scourge. |
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Aren't you urban gothy types supposed to be immune to public opinion? |
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He expressed willingness to help prosecutors if immune to prosecution. |
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