Learned helplessness' describes the individual's learned expectations that events are largely impervious to his influence and that unpleasant outcomes are probable.

GSB community remained largely impervious to these changes, and preferred to live in isolation.

The resulting avalanche of global investment capital has become largely impervious, they say, to the political risks that often buffet Southeast Asia's accident-prone economies.

In addition, the freeway was planned with a thicker asphalt pavement that was largely impervious to water.

AMP exports to itself, a growing American practice largely impervious to exchange rates.

"It is meticulously organized, shuns bluff and bombast for lapidary statements, and is largely impervious to attack."

Rates on small savings deposits and service-intensive products like checking accounts are relatively low and largely impervious to changes in market rates.

There are different types of hardpan, all sharing the general characteristic of being a distinct soil layer that is largely impervious to water.

But the Justice Department report portrays immigration officials as largely impervious to the need to shore up airport security operations.

This split occurs because, Nkosi claims, black writers are "largely impervious for the most part to cultural movements which have exercised great influence in the development of white writing."