Sentence examples for american sensitivity from inspiring English sources

But a widening gap between Europe and the United States over how broad an agreement is needed to combat the spread of weapons -- along with charges from officials and private groups represented here that plenty of legal American guns are finding their way into crime and combat around the world -- has heightened American sensitivity.

They are acutely aware of American sensitivity to any talk suggesting the emergence of a rival power and ideology and conflict with America could wreck China's economic growth.In 2003 Chinese officials began talking of the country's "peaceful rise", only to drop the term a few months later amid worries that even the word "rise" would upset the flighty Americans.

I can understand American sensitivities to accusations of pillaging.

Megrahi's return had severely offended American sensitivities and renewed tensions that set the relationship back.

This may not have been calculated rudeness, but it certainly shows a lack of concern for American sensitivities.

In an example of how it can be deaf to American sensitivities, its government has filed a lawsuit with the International Court of Justice to recover $2 billion worth of frozen assets the U.S. Supreme Court awarded to victims of a 1983 bombing in Lebanon and other attacks linked to Iran.

"A great percentage of the insider attacks have the enemy narrative — the narrative that the infidels have to be driven out — somewhere inside of them, but they aren't directed by the enemy," said a senior coalition officer, who asked not to be identified because of Afghan and American sensitivities about the attacks.

Farideh Farhi, an Iran expert at the University of Hawaii, said, "Apparently now he has decided that by going to the core of American sensitivities — in the same way he did with Israel by questioning the legitimacy of that country's existence — he can continue to keep himself at the center of global attention while deflecting attention away from his dismal domestic record".

"Iran doesn't want to provoke American sensitivities," said Abbas Maleki, who was deputy foreign minister under former President Hashemi Rafsanjani.

Black Republicans, on voter ID and other issues largely drawn along partisan and racial lines, may play a pivotal role in shaping the party's understanding of African American sensitivities to voting rights issues.

That's interesting, because a psychological look at American sensitivities reveals just the opposite when it comes to privacy; we are upset by those invasions contextualized by closeness, yet somewhat apathetic when it comes to more distant ones.