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Never known for his sensivity – and already in trouble for telling a gag about Hitler – the Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi was today condemned for more 'deplorable' jokes.
Silvio Berlusconi condemned by Vatican newspaper for 'deplorable' jokes Tom Kington in Rome 2010
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But we can't expect the foreign media to present any of this stuff -- that requires knowledge of the terrain, some sensivity to the complexity of the issues, willingness to inform readers that it isn't easy to understand, and so on.
Mad Chen Is In The House! Michael Turton 2007
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Thus, the estimates of 1.5C to 6.2C sensivity ranges would have produced temperatures 420 million years ago of 6C to 25C warmer than today.
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Fujita has also endowed the robot with high-sensivity microphones, so it can pick up the slightest sounds.
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As we established yesterday, there are practices, prototypically slavery, that John would be willing to condemn, respectful cultural sensivity be damned.
The teddy bear teacher is sentenced to 15 days in prison. Ann Althouse 2007
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Some of the statistical evidence makes me wonder whether the sensitivity to solar might not be considerably higher than the sensivity to CO2.
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If you work out the climate sensivity from the glacial cycles, then that climate sensitivity gives a pretty good prediction of the temperature rise during the 20th century see Chart 13.
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Well Steve, if climate models need tens of thousands of runs to produce a probabilistic result whose mean depends on the programmed sensivity to carbon dioxide given by the modellers as admitted by Myles Allen on the BBC recently then what good is it?
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“Some of the statistical evidence makes me wonder whether the sensitivity to solar might not be considerably higher than the sensivity to CO2.”
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How much depends on the type you use, how much food you are seasoning, and finally your own sensivity to salt.
How To Cook Italian Giuliano Hazan 2005
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