'One touch'

Abraham Verghese A doctor's touch

How can the nervous system misinterpret an innocent sensation like the touch of a hand and turn it into the malevolent sensation of the touch of the flame?

Naturally, there may be a touch of geopolitical calculation about this.

And the rule was, because I was sensitive, I was compassionate, I was very sensitive to injustice, and I was very pro justice.

Some issues are still quite sensitive.

It's pressure sensitive, you can notice.

But states remain extremely sensitive about their borders inviolability.

It wasn t just that distance lends a certain enchantment to any view.

The lightest touch of her arm the touch of a hand, the touch even of a sleeve, of a garment, as she put it on caused excruciating, burning pain.

The New Yorker is rather a sensitive environment, very easy for people to get their nose out of joint.

This means that every formal language that can be decided by such a machine is a context sensitive language, and every context sensitive language can be decided by such a machine.

And it is the French, the avatars of Enlightenment and the Rights of Man, who have stepped in to provide a patina of legitimacy to his political twilight.

In its early days, UMTS had problems in many countries Overweight handsets with poor battery life were first to arrive on a market highly sensitive to weight and form factor.

Member States had raised other sensitive issues that required careful consideration.

So within the motor, we have three Hall sensors, so we know exactly where the wing is.

This means that early cancerous cells should be sensitive to PARP inhibitors.

I have nothing to comment about the hate speech because our country is in a very sensitive situation.

These polarization detectors are sensitive in the ultraviolet region of the light spectrum.

In all those events, the message that the organizers choose to convey will have crucial significance.

Israel remains sensitive, however, to the impact of the necessary defensive measures it has been forced to take.

We live in a world where everything is being rated, whether you are a professional judge or an individual trying to make sense of modern life.

The official argument for the 3 exclusion is that it affects sensitive products.

Our successes cannot all speak for themselves, since the details often involve sensitive intelligence matters.

And to me that I don't think I could say it any better than the immortal Bard himself One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

Perhaps their successful rescue of the banking system also misled some central bankers into believing that they possessed the Midas touch.

But there now will be greater concerns about deep drilling in any sensitive environment.

It is a photosensitive solid and should be kept away from light and stored in dark coloured containers.

The atlas contains many maps that are politically sensitive, especially when it involves Tibet and Xinjiang.

Also, double touches are allowed in épée, although the touches must occur within 40 milliseconds (1 25 of a second) of each other.

These criteria are specific however, they are not particularly sensitive and are more useful for research than for clinical use.

My mother was, sort of, very sensitive to his mother, who it seemed was a little bit skeptical about the whole alternative lifestyle thing.

You know, you're so right. We must give him a hand, because this man knows how insensitive our government is.

Assessments of climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation in non Annex I Parties have provided opportunities for highlighting key vulnerable sectors, priorities and needs for adaptation, and also the difficulties gaps and constraints. Parties have also highlighted the fact that they are already

The pressure created by a woman's right to withdraw complaints of domestic violence was a very sensitive issue.

Jeff Han shows off a cheap, scalable multi touch and pressure sensitive computer screen interface that may spell the end of point and click.

Hu told Bush that the Taiwan issue was very sensitive, and that China would absolutely not tolerate Taiwan independence.

With so much internal liquidity, these businesses are not sensitive to reductions in market interest rates.

If I am to choose for the good reputation of our film festival, the film we produced or our country, I would choose that of our country which is in a very sensitive situation.

The sensors are so sensitive, and the actuation is so quick that the system may correct direction before the driver reacts.

It is not particularly sensitive to soil moisture, although it does not grow in desert or arid conditions.

Measurements made on items containing weapons components may contain defence or proliferation sensitive information.

Defines sexual abuse commited by a paying adult against a child as a discreet case as compared to ordinary seduction.

For 30 years now, OSCE has proved effective in very sensitive regions of the world.

But then you get the smart, geeky kids that have a touch of autism, and that's where you've got to get them turned on with doing interesting things.