(1) But the problem is because the targets are civilians, they are completely defenceless.
(2) The stereotypical image of a nation in which rising numbers of pensioners are being kept alive by modern medicine – but are crippled by arthritis, heart disease and Alzheimer's, and live huddled and defenceless in old people's homes – is simply not true.
(3) Just why William kills innocent and defenceless deer does not matter – the fact is, he does it, and we must go on and on asking why any form of violence is acceptable to the British establishment.
(4) Ben Flower tested that theory to the limit with his attack on an initially niggling but ultimately defenceless Lance Hohaia which ensured that the 17th Super League Grand Final made a greater national and international impact than any of the previous 16.
(5) 'They kill defenceless people': thousands flee Philippine city of Marawi Read more Who are the gunmen?
(6) Kony 2012 , the video that has now been seen 80m times, may have generated more heat than light on a number of issues: Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army , is no longer in northern Uganda; the region desperately needs money for resettlement; and focusing on one deranged war criminal who must face justice for his crimes will not end the practice of militias preying on defenceless villagers in the Central African Republic, South Sudan and the DRC.
(7) "They feel defensive and defenceless, and none of that makes us any safer."
(8) As their hot blood pours in torrents into the sea, the defenceless whales are finished off by winching them up by the tail to force their massive heads beneath the surface and electrocuting them as they thrash and drown in panicked desperation.
(9) There is no precedent in organised sport where punching a defenceless opponent nine times on the ground when he has collapsed but is conscious is acceptable.
(10) [Spoiler] Many too will be horrified by an interactive torture scene that pushes the player to perform acts of cruelty on a defenceless victim [spoiler ends] .
(11) Areas of control in Aleppo city and governorate Kerry and other senior officials have recently argued that US attempts to stem the violence are being ignored and that citizens and some armed groups nominally supported by the US are being left defenceless by Russian and Syrian strikes.
(12) "The callous act of deliberately ramming a boat full of hundreds of defenceless people is a crime that must not go unpunished.
(13) Concerning group 2: a) No one may be expected to kill an innocent, defenceless human being; and there does not exist any right of demanding such a thing.
(14) When you're suddenly tasked with steering a defenceless, vulnerable creature through life, the state of the planet instantly feels like less of a wearying joke and more of an outrageous affront to human decency.
(15) He had run for his life but tripped over a low fence and was stabbed while defenceless on the ground.
(16) Those left defenceless blamed impotent UN soldiers, but the real problem lay with a feckless and divided security council.
(17) Before Sandy, I said it was that with the extra energy in the atmosphere-ocean system it feeds super storms that intersect mega-cities left rendered defenceless by rising seas," McNutt said in a brief interview following her public remarks.
(18) He added that "those who use chemical weapons against defenceless men, women and children ... must be held accountable".
(19) The court heard how "vulnerable and defenceless" Sanam deteriorated over four weeks and died in severe pain, but to avoid being found out the defendants did not seek medical help.
(20) "Unlimited immigration from eastern Europe and elsewhere has left many British working people pretty much defenceless against constant downgrades in their pay and employment conditions."
Vulnerable
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being wounded; susceptible of wounds or external injuries; as, a vulnerable body.
(a.) Liable to injury; subject to be affected injuriously; assailable; as, a vulnerable reputation.
Example Sentences:
(1) In London, diesel emissions are now so bad that on several days earlier this summer, children, older people and vulnerable adults were warned not to venture outside .
(2) The Black pregnant teen is a microcosm of the impact of society on the most vulnerable.
(3) The facts are that the vulnerable children of this country remain largely unprotected.
(4) Since neutrophils are the first line of defense against infection the vulnerability to infection of the elderly may be due, at least in part, to age-related changes in neutrophils (PMNs).
(5) From these results, it can be suspected that the motor fibres are more vulnerable during aging.
(6) Two years ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change declared Egypt's Nile Delta to be among the top three areas on the planet most vulnerable to a rise in sea levels, and even the most optimistic predictions of global temperature increase will still displace millions of Egyptians from one of the most densely populated regions on earth.
(7) That the BBC has probably not been as vulnerable since the 1980s is also true – not least because the enemies of impartiality are more powerful, and the BBC's competitors (maimed after a year's exposure of their own behaviour in the Leveson inquiry ) are keen to wreck it.
(8) Yves was the vulnerable, suffering artist and Pierre the fiercely controlling protector: a man who, in Lespert's film, is painfully aware of his public image – "the pimp who's found his all-star hooker".
(9) For me, it would be to protect the young and vulnerable, to reduce crime, to improve health, to promote security and development, to provide good value for money and to protect.
(10) The results support Kuiper and colleagues' distinction between concomitant and vulnerability schemas, and help to clarify differences between cognitions that are symptoms or correlates of depression and those that may play a causal role under certain conditions.
(11) "It is difficult to imagine the torment experienced by the vulnerable victims of crimes such as these.
(12) Dietary fat can modify the vulnerability of the myocardium to arrhythmic stimuli.
(13) There are a few seats, such as South Dorset and Braintree, where the Liberal Democrats are in third place and a third party revival would help the Conservatives to regain the seats lost to Labour but they are outnumbered by vulnerable Tory marginals.
(14) The identifiable causes of child drowning are absence of a safety barrier or fence around the water hazard, non-supervision of a child, a parental "vulnerable period", an inadequate safety barrier, and tempting objects in or on the water.
(15) Although the greater vulnerability of the verbal intelligence of the younger radiated child and the serial order memory of the child with later tumor onset and hormone disturbances remain to be explained, and although the form of the relationship between radiation and tumor site is not fully understood, the data highlight the need to consider the cognitive consequences of pediatric brain tumors according to a set of markers that include maturational rate, hormone status, radiation history, and principal site of the tumor.
(16) It's typically sober and elegant, and Cotillard excels in a nervy, vulnerable role.
(17) Dictated by underlying physicochemical constraints, deceived at times by the lulling tones of the siren entropy, and constantly vulnerable to the vagaries of other more pervasive forms of biological networking and information transfer encoded in the genes of virus and invading microorganisms, protein biorecognition in higher life forms, and particularly in mammals, represents the finely tuned molecular avenues for the genome to transfer its information to the next generation.
(18) Speaking through an interpreter, he said: “Most of the children in the camps do have their families and parents with them but those stranded around Europe and in Calais are very vulnerable because other people could do something to them.
(19) The authors hypothesize that an interplay of late adoption intrinsic vulnerabilities in the children, and weakness of parental bonds accounts for the differential outcomes.
(20) Therefore, cells containing HSP72 immunoreactivity may serve as an early marker for neuronal injury from hypoxia-ischemia in the neonatal rat brain and more importantly may illustrate previously unrecognized areas of central nervous system vulnerability.