Sentence examples for sensitive to global from inspiring English sources

The reef is exquisitely sensitive to global warming caused by greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide because it sits atop a shallow and very broad continental shelf.

Australia does not even make it into the list of top 20 steel-producing countries, making it particularly sensitive to global trends.

Scientists consider the Arctic highly sensitive to global warming and are particularly interested in closely monitoring its changes as possible harbingers.

After all, emerging markets are perceived to be riskier and more sensitive to global trade; they should be high-beta plays, rising more in rallies and falling more in slumps.In a research note headed "The Great Divergence", BNP Paribas suggests eight separate reasons for emerging market underperformance, ranging from poor profitability through higher inflation to a fall in commodity prices.

A study by Valentina Bruno of American University in Washington and Hyun Song Shin, a Princeton professor who advised South Korea on its capital controls (mainly in the form of a tax on certain foreign-currency deposits), says they made the country "less sensitive to global factors".

Because temperature plays such a big role, the index is sensitive to global warming.The trouble is, argue the authors of the study, Justin Sheffield and Eric Wood of Princeton University, and Michael Roderick of the Australian National University, in Canberra, "evaporation is a function of more than just temperature".

Figure  2 shows the parameters values for which the model was most sensitive to the global costs of the strategies' global costs.

It should be noted that this represents types of sequences in the genome that are normally highly methylated [ 100], so the test is more sensitive to a global loss of DNA methylation than its global acquisition.

INDUSTRIALS While it's true that the industrial sector is economically sensitive, it is now sensitive to the global economy.

SOME companies, it seems, are less sensitive to the global downturn than others.

"Stocks that are less sensitive to the global economy and that target local consumer demand have performed better, but as a result they've gotten more expensive," said Jeffrey A. Urbina, co-portfolio manager of the William Blair Emerging Markets Growth fund.