The constant drip-feed of bad news on the environment has inured us to the litany of loss.
As air travelers become inured to baggage fees, airlines are betting they'll accept additional extra charges.
They were ready to accept a difficult transition and were inured to a certain level of violence.
But the increasing physical separation of Palestinians from Israel makes it easier to become inured to their plight.
By that time I had not seen Lajos for twenty years, and I thought myself inured against my memories.
Now several billion ads run every month, and Web surfers have, with disturbing rapidity, grown inured to the overkill.
The public became inured to what had, only months earlier, been alarming revelations.
It seems Wall Street, long inured to Web losses, suddenly cares about profits.
Once again, worryingly, it shows how Indians are becoming inured to frequent assaults on free speech and an ineffectual state.
People are stuck on a treadmill: as they achieve a better standard of living, they become inured to its pleasures.
The capital's citizens, inured to fighting in Chad's hinterland, remain shocked by the speed with which the rebels reached them.
Other regulations are developed by power hungry bureaucrats inured to marketplace realities, all while resting under the cloak of civil service tenure.
The guilty, then, either sought pain out or were inured to it.
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Most people are inured to authoritarian rule as a fact of life.
Popular culture has grown so inured to government proffered solutions for every perceived problem that people attribute any stated preference as seeking an imposition of state.
Even in a country inured to sleazy politics, the revelation that the fiscal gamekeeper had been a poacher all along has taken outrage to new heights.
Voller, though, may have to be without Bayer skipper and sweeper Jens Nowotny, who inured his knee in the Champions League semi-final second-leg against Manchester United.
The sight of such unusually open dispute encouraged an outburst of enthusiasm from a public that had grown inured, under Mr Ahmadinejad, to a bland, adulatory media diet.
Peruvians are inured to scandal: for months, television has shown excerpts from some 4, 000 videos secretly recorded by Mr Montesinos as part of his huge racket of bribery and political manipulation.
Beijing's Sina and other major news portals report that an earthquake in Taiwan's central Nantou county at around 10:00 local time inured several people and even shook buildings further north in Taipei.
Rather, it was another aggressive Korean icon, the Young General Kim Jong-un, whose latest saber rattling got the attention of a lot of people inured to the belligerent bleating of his DPRK state.
But to the extent that the massive price tag of ObamaCare has inured the public to big deficit numbers, such measures, which will be nearly not as expensive, will be a far easier sell now.
He explained that "whereas you might get frustrated when the waitress at the counter gives you the wrong coffee, " after a recent trek he was so inured to adversity that he spent a couple of hours outdoors without even noticing it was pouring.
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