Glass ampoules are more expensive than bottles and other simple containers, but there are many situations where their superior imperviousness to gases and liquids and all-glass interior surface are worth the extra cost.
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Johnson, one of the all-time great defensive fighters, sustained physical punishment with the same imperviousness with which he endured taunts; punches bounced off him like machine gun fire from a bulletproof suit.
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From the initial idea of protecting against water damage developed the science of integral waterproofing the introduction of some element into the wet cement during the process of making causing a high degree of impermeability and imperviousness.
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"The salvation of this country so far has been its imperviousness to abstract ideas, " says the play's most reactionary character, a blowhard member of Parliament named, with Dickensian cheek, Blackborough.
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In 2009, he announced that he would boycott all the events in Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Israel, saying that in his opinion, the pope bears a message of " rigidness, religious extremism and imperviousness.
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Although he affected an imperviousness to his school's ranking, he did take umbrage at the thought that some students might choose The Other Law School because of its ( clearly erroneous ) ranking by U . S . News.
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Before the development, the site was 97 % impervious, covered in substandard, mostly unoccupied buildings and asphalt parking lots, and now it has reduced the imperviousness to 35 % and the landscape is planted with local Californian vegetation.
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The Taliban's imperviousness to the antipathy they have stirred among ordinary Afghans reflects a conviction that they have a divine mission to create an Afghanistan free of " infidels " and " un-Islamic " influences.
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He was " isolated by, among other things, his relative imperviousness to homosexual attraction, " and Treglown reports that " most of Henry Yorke's own forms of rebellion were either conventional or halfhearted ."
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Since January, when accusations of an affair with a former intern were first leveled against President Clinton, the White House has cultivated an Olympian aura of imperviousness to the ensuing bombardment of questions, bawdy televised jokes and widely publicized prosecutorial suspicions.
