These 200 Best Small Companies in America ( the list) are far from invulnerable.
Last year's question of whether Google might be invulnerable to a recession has officially been answered.
First of all, while far from invulnerable, enemies on mounts do tip the scales.
The Tories are not invulnerable, of course, despite their continuing lead in the polls.
In contrast, Watson has an insatiable appetite for new knowledge and is invulnerable to our decision-making fallibilities.
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As a result of the rapid military victory America once again looks invulnerable.
His death denies the group its most unifying figure and the effective pitch of an elusive and seemingly invulnerable leader.
With a successful test, Pyongyang could in effect proclaim itself invulnerable, above the law, a nuclear-weapon state immune from international action.
Most encouraging for the Big 3 is that their Asian rivals, while on a relative roll in recent years, are hardly invulnerable.
This indulgence let Pussi Riots to believe themselves to be immune, invulnerable, universally permitted to do whatever their sick fantasies could come up with.
But, Nowinski says, the better helmets have become and the more invulnerable they have made the player seem the more athletes have been inclined to play recklessly.
Though their size would make them an easy mouthful for a shark or a grouper, their poisonous spines mean they are more or less invulnerable.
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Stealth does not make an aircraft completely invulnerable to enemy forces.
While the SR-71 cannot be said to be invulnerable as a practical matter, nothing is its survivability in most theaters of operation is substantial.
Even when a tumor is all but eliminated by Taxol, a few cells with mutated microtubules that are invulnerable to the drug can remain, growing into more deadly tumors.
Some Russians speculate that Putin agreed to the US withdrawal of the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty because Moscow had developed countermeasures, making its MIRVed ICBMs invulnerable.
It must have low transaction costs, avoid significant income transfers among countries, be practically invulnerable to fraud and corruption and lend itself to easy verification of compliance.
The first is that Iran is rapidly moving centrifuges to its once-secret site at Fordow, buried deep inside a mountain and possibly invulnerable to attack by conventional weapons.
They welcome Britain's first-past-the-post electoral system precisely because it creates stable, democratic government invulnerable to the uncertain coalitions that "fairer" voting systems have inflicted on countries like Holland.
Around the world numerous countries are moving up the economic food chain, pressuring U.S. manufacturers--not to mention the once seemingly invulnerable service providers, including architecture and medicine--as never before.
For example, the difference between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait in the recent war with Iraq was not that one was invulnerable to ballistic missile attack and the other was not.
Washington portrays Microsoft as a juggernaut, but the software giant is hardly invulnerable, a case in point being its blindness to the significance of the Internet a few years ago.
They are not invulnerable to ordnance Israel already possesses.
And incumbents often look invulnerable until they suddenly fall.
Mr Netanyahu's experience proved that under the current Israeli system of government, which came into effect in 1996, even unpopular prime ministers are invulnerable, at least for the first half of their term.
In his career he'd made a decades-old drug invulnerable to generic rivals, made Pharmacia so desirable Pfizer had to buy it and had turned Schering-Plough from a cash-hemorrhaging criminal into a jewel of a stock.
With FDA approval of new drugs like Kadcyla, and human trials of nanoparticle cancer therapy in the offing, it is possible that humanity is finally gaining the upper hand on a disease that once seemed invulnerable.
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