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insensitivities

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  • [T] he column was filled with racial and political insensitivities that, even in the relatively homogenous Alaska, were bound (perhaps designed) to stir the pot.

    Palin's Personnel Choices 2009

  • Such an observer would admit to certain mistakes and insensitivities in Western policy.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • The more spending on issues that are not for jobs and on other irrelevant (at this point) issues, combined with failure to do anything for the people, and other continued insensitivities at the WH (Bush third term ongoing, as it is now) the more likely the 41 seems doable for Republicans.

    41 is the crucial number in 2010 battle for the House 2009

  • Such an observer would admit to certain mistakes and insensitivities in Western policy.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • Such an observer would admit to certain mistakes and insensitivities in Western policy.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • Erbe jumps onto her high horse and vents about the "the complete insensitivity, even provocation, of the pope's actions" and angrily proclaims that "Pope Benedict should apologize for his insensitivities," as though Pope Benedict actually wants to insult Jews, damage Catholic-Jewish relations, and flirt with being labelled anti-Semitic.

    Interreligious Dialogue 2009

  • The process of disillusionment was rapid, a succession of slights, slayings and cultural insensitivities turning him into a rebel.

    9/11 books round-up – review 2011

  • Such an observer would admit to certain mistakes and insensitivities in Western policy.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • As cultural insensitivities have meaning that can be traced back to slavery times and Jim Crow laws, Baylor must carefully monitor such cases, and quickly.

    Racism in Baylor University 2009

  • When do such insensitivities as ordering still another $50 million corporate jet with bailout money cross that line between stupidity and conduct that deserves punishment?

    Bob Franken: The China Sin Drone 2009

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