In short, BMWs and Mercedes are less sensitive to price increases than Peugeots and Renaults.
In Dr Schmittner's analysis, the climate is less sensitive to carbon dioxide than was feared.
These mortgage-backed securities are 50% less sensitive to prepayment when rates fall than comparable Fannie Mae bonds.
The Western economy is much less sensitive to oil prices than it was a quarter century ago.
In affluent areas, gas station owners know that the people who live there are less sensitive to price.
It is therefore less sensitive to the precise chemical make-up of the site.
Rich economies are also less dependent on oil than they were, and so less sensitive to swings in the oil price.
And historically it has been less sensitive to interest-rate moves, so in that sense it is not quite like a normal bond.
In Type 2 diabetes, obesity leads the body to be less sensitive to insulin, and to produce less of it after eating.
People are less sensitive to changes in package size than to prices.
Because the human ear is less sensitive to bass at low volumes, the app adjusts those levels, thousands of times each second, to compensate.
The ADB's economists find that trade in parts is much less sensitive to changes in the real exchange rate than trade in finished products.
Analysts also note that Hertz is expanding its off-airport car rental locations, which are more profitable and less sensitive to the cyclical travel economy.
Take the ten-year Treasury: the ten-year Treasury at a 4% yield is less risky, less sensitive to interest-rate changes than a ten-year Treasury at 2%.
The near-infrared photoactive polymer absorbs more near-infrared light but is less sensitive to visible light, balancing solar cell performance and transparency in the visible wavelength region.
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This is because hardware constitutes a relatively smaller portion of our price estimate for IBM, making its stock value much less sensitive to changes in server forecasts.
In the wake of debt-driven financial crises, households and businesses typically spend years whittling down debts, and are much less sensitive to the lure of lower interest rates.
Freight is less sensitive to terrorism than passenger travel.
In any case, unlike South-East Asia it is no longer a base for manufacturing, which accounts for a mere 12% of the economy, but is increasingly reliant on service exports, which are much less sensitive to exchange rates.
This is not entirely bad news as it is likely to improve margins in the long terms and make its business less sensitive to the slowing PC market and allow it to concentrate on the more lucrative services business.
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These advocates tend to be less than sensitive, to put it charitably, to the potential national security risks associated with putting their philosophy into practice.
And the Fed may have concluded that American inflation is less sensitive than it was to changes in the rate of unemployment.
Private companies also tend to be less sensitive about sacking people.
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The latest scuttlebutt is that Mr Mandelson may instead be promoted to another, less sensitive, cabinet post.
The mess also has made bishops and other church leaders around the world less inclined to take their cues from Rome, or to share anything sensitive with Vatican officials, for fear they'll be reading about it in tomorrow's paper.
For example, if you have been favoring more economically sensitive stocks (examples include Wyndham Worldwide ( WYN) and CB Richard Ellis ( CBG)), you may want to look at less economically sensitive stocks (examples include General Mills ( GIS) and Clorox ( CLX)).
So long as the internationalists run its foreign policy, America is likely to share at least the less sensitive sorts of equipment.
They are fast enough to scan trucks and cars as they pass through toll booths, portable enough to be used almost anywhere and sensitive enough to distinguish between a weapons-grade isotope and the less dangerous form in an X-ray machine.
We've endorsed a proposal that would require that companies make a reasonable effort to remove it before sharing less-sensitive data.
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The job means that one is daily attending - in the most seemingly innocent moments, when responding to a school project or appraising a Lego airport - to the casting of foundations no less sensitive and load-bearing than those of a skyscraper.
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