Later utilitarian writers have tended to abandon this idea, in large part due to the impracticality of determining each alleged criminal's relative sensitivity to specific punishments.

The relative sensitivities of mice to various venoms may not allow prediction of the exact degree of human sensitivity.

His doubts about the relentlessness of Singapore's Westernization and his relative sensitivity towards the concerns of the city state's ethnic components had attracted some support.

It is based on subjective judgements of which of a pair of different-colored lights is brighter, to describe relative sensitivity to light of different wavelengths.

SOFIA will have a larger aperture than Spitzer, but at lower relative sensitivities in restricted duty cycles.

Although the WR and IHD-J strains exhibited similar sensitivity to most of the compounds tested, some differences in their relative sensitivity was observed.

Further study, using larger numbers is required to compare the relative sensitivity of secretion and synthesis measurements.

If two cone classes are present, then their relative sensitivity will change the behavioral wavelength sensitivity.

Further the length of each bar is proportional to the relative sensitivity of the cell lines.

The relative sensitivity of a given explosive to impact may vary greatly from its sensitivity to friction or heat.