Like the Spanish, they were used to it.

A world fit for mammals. From tiny shrews came tenrecs, accustomed to the dark.

And what you might get and anything that actually refers to things that we are used to, you throw away.

I wanted to put heart and soul and people, your public, around the statistics that we've become so used to.

Americans, despite the attacks of September 11, 2001, are not.

Citizens are coarsened by the casual brutality meted out to a minority, and become inured to it.

Soldiers from the Ninth Battalion had been in the region since 1999, and regularly looted civilian property.

Since the uprisings started around the Arab world, we have become accustomed to seeing the image of thousands of protesters taking to the squares and streets.

Activists in America are now accustomed to assuming that their emails are being read and their phone calls monitored.

But that is arguably much more likely to happen when soldiers have become inured to lawlessness in their own ranks.

And we take this utterly for granted, because we're a species that is so at home with language, but you have to realize that even the simplest acts of exchange that we engage in are utterly dependent upon language.

Expectations of well being Richard Lazarus asserts that people become accustomed to positive or negative life experiences which lead to favorable or unfavorable expectations of their present and near future circumstances.

We the people have become inured to our own irrelevance when it comes to doing anything significant about anything that matters concerning governance, beyond waiting another four years.

The election was always going to be a challenge, all the more so because, following the end of military rule in 1999, Nigerian politicians had become habituated to rigging polls.

We're now so used to the idea that the Earth spins rather than the Sun moves across the sky it's hard for us to realize what a shattering mental revolution that must have been.

Investment in the Russian economy was growing fast. Unfortunately, Russia s rulers are not accustomed to leaving the country and the rest of the world for long without something surprising to gawk at.

And I'm here today to share a new way that we're working with technology to this end to get familiar with our inner self like never before humanizing technology and furthering that age old quest of ours to more fully know the self.

But the experiment was abandoned within a month people have grown so accustomed to the convenience of copying messages to multiple recipients that walking to their desks is now an unfamiliar idea.

When incomes are growing rapidly, as they are in China, it is easier to save because people are not yet accustomed to a higher standard of living and do not mind terribly much maintaining a lower one for a while longer.

While we have become familiar with China s ardent interest in natural resources such as oil, coal, steel, copper, and soybeans, we are far less acquainted with other kinds of Chinese investments, including outright acquisitions of foreign companies.

While Indians have traditionally been wary of buying online, owing to their distrust of digital security, in recent years the urban middle class has become increasingly accustomed to using the Internet to purchase airline tickets, reserve hotel rooms, and order books.

We've done three. We're planning another one in July in the north of the country. So, we certainly still do open heart, but you can see the contrast between everything that was shipped in we ship everything, instruments. We had explosions because the kit was designed and installed by people who weren't used to it.

Yet the level of violence, were it taking place anywhere else in the world, would make headlines only in Iraq have we become so inured to violence that it is a good day if only 25 civilians get killed.