Blinded by misplaced patriotism and by their abhorrence of communism, they had voluntarily inoculated themselves against that sensitivity to danger which had saved Jews from their persecutors in other epochs, and which is - thankfully - very much alive in Israel today.
For example, variation in the gene encoding T2R38 modifies sensitivity to PTC, which correlates with sensitivity to bitter compounds in cabbage or Brussels sprouts4.
No 10 is restricting media coverage partly out of sensitivity to Saudi Arabia, which has been upset by Britain's response to the Arab spring.
The problems with the technology involve price and their sensitivity to moisture, which means they are generally encased in inflexible glass, mostly in mobile phones and televisions.
What's also interesting is that these drivers show less sensitivity to punishment, which means that simple punitive measures are unlikely to deter the most antisocial road users.
The Cultural Revolution, in which millions of Chinese were persecuted as Mao tried to consolidate his power and "purify" the Communist Party, remains a subject of extreme sensitivity to Beijing, which continues to restrict access to official archives of the period.
SeCT34 showed a pH-dependence and sensitivity to inhibitors, which is characteristic for semi-purified lepidopteran gut proteinases.
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More than a thousand people in the department would have had access to information of similar sensitivity to that which was released, a former department manager says, raising further concerns about its handling of personal information.
But that sensitivity to suffering, which did so much to soften the Bush image in the 2000 Presidential campaign, never really cohered into a politics; the Bush White House generally turned away from it after the 9/11 attacks.
