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If, for example, a pathogen is transmitted by an insect that lives in the tops of trees, susceptible hosts will not be infected if they never leave the ground.
Pathogens come into contact with susceptible hosts that they have never before encountered, and that never had the opportunity to evolve resistance.
This makes finance especially susceptible to crooks and con men.
For all the excitement of receiving hand-delivered multi-layered envelopes festooned with “For Your Eyes Only” stickers – a thrill to which our leaders seem particularly susceptible – such material, far more often than not, adds nothing more than gossip to what is available through open-source material.
Developing nations should argue that recognizing these economic and political realities makes the global trade regime not weaker and more susceptible to protectionism, but healthier and more sustainable.
After all, none of the Muslim world’s problems and conflicts with the West are susceptible to a military solution.
A recent study showed that a few years of smoking can have this effect, making smokers more susceptible to a variety of cancers.
Hunger leaves people more susceptible to disease, requiring more health-care spending.
Indeed, in coming decades, everything will be susceptible to major revision as new cross-disciplines – and undisciplined threads of study – emerge.
As population rises, billions of people crowd into Earth’s vulnerable areas – near coastlines battered by storms and rising sea levels, on mountainsides susceptible to landslides and earthquakes, or in water-stressed regions plagued by drought, famine, and disease.
Moreover, those women who do reach higher-ranking positions are susceptible to a visibility-vulnerability spiral, owing to their minority status.
The ubiquitous sense of entitlement, accompanied by automatic skepticism about all things political, seems to have been replaced by a recognition that some problems are not susceptible to simple left-right explanations or solutions; that the government is neither omnipotent nor always ill-intentioned; and that there are limits to the prosperity that politics can provide.
Despite being driven by an enormous amount of data overseen by some of the world’s top data scientists, its results are susceptible to “search-engine optimization” and manipulation, such as “Google bombing,” “spamdexing,” and other methods serving parochial interests.
And it is not only far-right extremists, such as supporters of France’s National Front, who are susceptible to Putin’s blandishments.
Urban factory workers and conservative Catholics were, on the whole, less susceptible to Hitler’s blandishments than many more highly educated Protestants.
Canada, Australia, and New Zealand are all resource-rich countries that are susceptible to the “Dutch disease” – when one strong, capital-intensive sector hurts other sectors by pushing up the value of the currency.
In a certain ideological mind-set, Israel is perceived not as a political entity, susceptible to prevailing standards of judgment, but as an almost allegorical force, the symbolic center and source of the globe’s evils and ailments.
That makes private lenders susceptible to larger haircuts if the country eventually defaults – and thus more hesitant to lend in the first place.
The other half of the counter-insurgency strategy is to win the “hearts and minds” of populations that are susceptible to terrorist propaganda.
The powerful combination of globalization and aging will make developing economies ever more susceptible to changes in the terms of trade, interest rates, and exchange rates in rich countries.
To consider Islam as a civilization that is not susceptible to change is an historical fallacy.
Across the Caucasus, a generation has grown up absolutely lost to Russia – and increasingly susceptible to recruitment into the ranks of Allah’s warriors.
Decentralized organization, multiple leaderships, and conflicting ideological stances make the Salafi trend amorphous, volatile, and susceptible to manipulation and infiltration.
Still, Russia’s success in targeting American voters with bogus news could not have succeeded were it not for the second problem: a poorly educated electorate susceptible to manipulation.
This would provide countries with weak health-care systems – which are particularly susceptible to disease outbreaks – with the human resources they need to bring health crises quickly under control.
It is all too easy to imagine an Asian and Pacific future characterized by higher spending on arms of all types – and thus more susceptible to violent conflict.
And, because membership can include rights violators themselves, its agenda is susceptible to politicization.
The American public has proven remarkably susceptible to the manipulation of truth, which increasingly dominates the country’s political discourse.
American foreign policy is structured by institutions and a constitution, but external crises can create a context much more susceptible to leaders’ choices, for better or worse.
With a drug, you need people who are sick, or susceptible to the condition your drug can prevent.
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