We cannot allow the Bretton Woods institutions to remain forever impervious to our calls.

But MBI exploits the different molecular behavior of tumors, and therefore, it's impervious to breast density.

Israel was impervious to the calls for it to comply with international humanitarian law in the knowledge that it was immune to any United Nations resolution adopted.

The village Arabs are more obstinate in disbelief and hypocrisy, and impervious to ordinances revealed to His Apostle by God yet God is aware of everything and is wise.

The village Arabs are more obstinate in disbelief and hypocrisy, and impervious to ordinances revealed to His Apostle by God yet God is aware of everything and is wise.

With the support of old elites, the urban middle class, and religious minorities, Egypt s military leaders have clearly adopted an all or nothing strategy. Moreover, financial support from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states has made the army impervious to outside pressure.

Today, it is clear that fundamentalists and their supporters are completely closed off to even the most elaborate theological refutation of their views, even when produced by distinguished religious authorities. The first reflex of the fundamentalists is to withdraw from the mainstream, to build around themselves a shell that is impervious to any logic other than their own.

Most importantly, Bush did not ask the hard questions perhaps because he, like those below him, already knew the answers they wanted. They created a closed culture, impervious to contradictory facts, a culture in which civil rights have been given short shrift and some people have been deemed not to deserve any rights protection at all.

Because, many of you will know, that the biggest pollution burden that we have on the New York, New Jersey harbor right now is no longer the point sources, no longer the big polluters, no longer the GEs, but that massive network of roads, those impervious surfaces, that collect all that cadmium neurotoxin that comes from your brake liners or the oily hydrocarbon waste in every single storm event and medieval infrastructure washes it straight into the estuary system.