immune

immune

is followed by to or from. When the reference is to disease or some other form of harm or danger, to is more usual, and when from is used it is more often in the context of legal liabilities, but these distinctions are far from clear-cut and both constructions are found regardless of context, with to somewhat more common than from: (to)

• Each country will be concerned to maintain the invulnerability of its submarine-based strategic missiles, which are essentially immune to attack from land-based weapons —Scientific American, 1972

• A situation could arise where harmful bacteria, having become immune to disinfectants, survive to cause illness which cannot be treated by antibiotics —R. North, 1985

• Anywhere that remains immune to fashion is to be lauded —Times, 2004

• (from) Those who have a commitment to the Christian faith are not thereby immune from depression —M. Batchelor, 1988

• The laws affecting the common land were supervised by Down Drivers, themselves not immune from prosecution —M. Lister, 1988

• Real diamonds have a quite distinctive, soapy texture to the surface and are immune from water —Frederick Forsyth, 1989

• Royal grants may also explain why some churches…enjoyed unusually extensive rights of sanctuary which developed into privileged zones immune from secular authority —W. Davies, 2003.