The economy is now diversified enough to be immune from future downturns in the oil industry.
But if real wages go down, you can't expect the elderly to be immune from all the problems facing the economy.
Yet somehow Gingrich believes himself to be immune from any blame.
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Current high security cylinder locks that protect government and high value commercial facilities are rated to be immune from attack for a minimum of up to fifteen minutes against covert methods of entry.
The Flashback Trojan that infected 700, 000 Macs at its peak earlier this month represents a rude awakening for Apple users who long believed their computers to be immune from the kind of malicious software that infects PCs.
The euro itself, which in principle ought to be immune from these contractual disputes, might soon enter a real currency crisis, either from the sovereign debt the European Central Bank is buying with freshly printed money or from general negligence.
But even then, could Britain and France expect to be immune from the disastrous longer-term repercussions of what they are doing repercussions that include an upsurge of Asian and African mistrust, as well as a loss of American and Commonwealth goodwill?
The notion that somehow that Senator Clinton is going to be immune from attack or that there's not a whole dump truck that they can back up in a match-up between her and John McCain, I think is just not true.
Financial institutions that were too big to fail should not be immune from prosecution.
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You'd think that export-heavy aerospace, of all U.S. industries, would be immune to problems radiating from the U.S. subprime mess.
Even Europe's economies, tempted briefly at the beginning of 2001 to assume that they could be immune from an American slowdown, learned a painful lesson.
In MS patients, the dose eliminates the immune cells entirely, forcing a new immune system to be built from scratch which should not attack the nerves.
But when the investigation was turned over to the Justice Department to examine possible criminal activity, FBI agents discovered some guards believed they were immune from prosecution and therefore refused to be interviewed again, complicating the FBI probe.
The population has recovered, but the genetic diversity has not recovered so that all the Tasmanian devils that exist are so similar to one another genetically that their immune systems don't seem to be able to tell one from another.
But if Obama tackles the long-term federal deficit, as he often promises, it is hard to see how Medicaid long-term care would be immune from any cuts.
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On top of never having to remember a password again, Pico users would be theoretically immune from phishing attacks, choosing weak passwords, or even having their password stolen by an over-the-shoulder snoop.
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Yet Argentina's experience provides clear evidence that even currency boards, where the rate is fixed by law, and where the domestic currency has to be backed by hard-currency reserves, are not immune from crises.
Whatever their stations, whether petty thieves or governors, those who break the law must not be immune from the consequences and must be held to account for their actions.
If China made itself immune from outside attack, it could still be vulnerable to botnets run from within the country, says Allan Paller, director of research at the SANS Institute.
Without assurances that her husband would be immune from prosecution, Ms Purdy insisted her only option was to die in Switzerland while still physically able to travel alone.
In each of these cases, the White House argued that Mr Clinton's entourage should be immune from Mr Starr's subpoenas, lest their service to the president be impeded by the knowledge that they might later be compelled to testify against him.
America may be more efficient than it was, but it is far from immune to higher prices.
One study even suggested that people whose mother and father were both descended from ancestors who survived the bubonic plague in the seventeenth century appeared to be immune to HIV.
The idea is that when a critical proportion of a group is immune to a disease, too few individuals are susceptible for that disease to be passed from one to another.
Governments have also realised that although a sluggish and half-hearted approach to e-government will not put them out of business, they may not be as immune from competition as they thought.
Dr Hertig speculates that some of these genes may have been picked up from retroviruses and that they could be important in persuading animal immune systems to leave the pox virus alone.
"If we can make it a little bit more difficult for teenagers to start smoking then hopefully by the time they get to be a bit older they will be more aware that they are not immune to the effects of smoking, " said Dr Sarah Jarvis from the Royal College of GPs.
In most people, this would only be of passing interest, but the woman suffers from inflammatory bowel disease and takes powerful drugs to suppress her immune system.
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Provenge is a cell therapy that must be manufactured on a case-by-case basis from each patients immune cells, requiring Dendreon to obtain and process patient samples with FedEx-like acumen.
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On occasion, the immune system is primed to attack the embryo because it contains genetic material from the father, which can be interpreted as foreign.
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