They were ready to accept a difficult transition and were inured to a certain level of violence.

ECONOMIST: By invitation: Iraq

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.

BBC: Magazine

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.

WSJ: This Is One That's for the Spartans

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.

ECONOMIST: Iran's election

Most people are inured to authoritarian rule as a fact of life.

ECONOMIST: Arab democracy

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.

FORBES: Asia's Week: The Bluster Blows From the North

People are stuck on a treadmill: as they achieve a better standard of living, they become inured to its pleasures.

ECONOMIST: Affluence

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.

FORBES: Uncommon Sense