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This is in part a matter of desensitizing the public.

Perhaps so much has happened recently that they are desensitized to change.

At least, I'd hope folks have already become desensitized to that.

The stakes have become so high as to desensitize the average person.

All her efforts to desensitize herself had only made it worse.

Does violence in movies and video games desensitize us to the real thing?

It's desensitizing medication, but it will do only so much.

This in turn desensitizes it to the width of any specific level.

However, care must be taken not to desensitize the animal to the stimulus.

These shows desensitize the audience to the fear and the emotions.

"Is this something that desensitizes us to the meaning of hurting living things?"

"It really helped her stay desensitized to the idea of germs being around the house."

Then the shields went full up, and he waited, watching, without desensitizing for a moment.

But the system has been desensitized to avoid crying wolf and often does not sound early enough.

So much research is devoted to studying whether violence on television desensitizes children.

Even more troubling than the incident itself, she said, is that students have become "desensitized to these issues."

TV viewers have most likely been desensitized to the increase in paid messages.

All these story lines have desensitized viewers to the crime of rape.

It's one lesson after another to desensitize the children to anything traditional."

If you eat a lot of anything, your taste buds become desensitized to it.

He is desensitized to violence and eventually learns to enjoy it.

Her ears were desensitized, still ringing from the first explosion.

First, they become desensitized to the evil that is committed when one human being kills another.

Is it because they are so desensitized by the violence they see on television?

By hanging around his corral, I'm desensitizing him to my presence.

"From day one they were being shot at by their supervisors to desensitise them.

Throwing ourselves in at the deep end until we master it is one way to desensitise ourselves to the people, places and work we find stressful.

Teenager, Hannah Birchall stated about the incident, "The images on the box bring back all the memories of September 11," and that she thinks that "it will desensitise children to what happened."

He lamented that the gangland wars have appeared to desensitise the public to violence and was critical of people in the general public who took the view that we were well rid of criminals murdered in the ongoing feuds.

Persistently elevated levels of carbon dioxide in the blood, hypercapnia (the opposite to hypocapnia), tend to desensitise the body to CO, in which case the body may come to rely on the oxygen level in the blood to maintain respiratory drive.