Sentence examples for becomes impervious from inspiring English sources

The idea is that if an insect becomes impervious to the BT toxin, it is likely to mate with a nonresistant insect from the refuge, and the offspring would not be resistant.

Tremendous performances from Richard Croft as Nero and Patricia Schuman as Poppea capture both the physicality and the delirium of a passion that gradually becomes impervious to reason, and makes casualties of Kathleen Kuhlman's proud Ottavia and Jeffrey Gall's hapless, handsome Ottone.

Thus, Parker's life becomes impervious to time, a subject friends and business partners acknowledge with a defeated laugh.

He had become impervious to pain.

The trashing of GM crops during field trials showed that the campaign against them had become a crusade and that Greenpeace has become impervious to evidence.

And a serious problem is emerging: some are rebelling or asserting independence by skipping or stopping medication, which can make H.I.V. spiral out of control and become impervious to previously effective therapies.

I think that in order to break through any kind of glass ceiling, or simply to get through the day, you have to become impervious to the daily gruffness that's a part of any job.

Thetis dips her son Achilles in the waters of the Styx so that he might become impervious to all things that harm mortal creatures (but she holds him by his heel, and that, as we know, stays vulnerable).

"We've been so good at our job that our herds never became impervious to the tick," Edwin Bowers, administrator of the tick eradication program at the Agriculture Department's office here, said in an interview under a sign reading, "Saddle Your Hoss Before Cussin' the Boss".

Besides the improvement in the propagation loss, a significant change to the DUTs after annealing was that it became impervious to wavelength change, hence making the DUTs less sensitive to wavelength variation.

See how we've become impervious to these cemented-in eyesores?