(a.) Destitute of defense; unprepared to resist attack; unable to oppose; unprotected.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nobody knows how often it happens but judging just from my inbox, it’s certainly not a rare occurrence and what struck me as I started to learn about the issue of health privacy is that employees are defenseless against things like this happening to them.” Fei said that she also received her fair share of emails saying: “What makes you think your baby was entitled to million dollars worth of care?
(2) Given that Kennedy also expressed concern with leaving ballot initiatives defenseless when elected officials decline to defend them, that might well put us in the mystery category of how else this case might be dismissed.
(3) Time and time again, businesses that have asked guests not to bring legally possessed, self defense firearms into their establishments have seen their employees and customers victimized by criminals preying on the openly defenseless,” the group said.
(4) Pregnancy makes the body more defenseless against hepatitis and its sequelae.
(5) During my wartime studies and since, I have been impressed by the observation that the patient's ego is by no means powerless and defenseless, even during a deep state of trance, i.e., in states of trance sufficiently deep to eliminate awareness of painful body injuries (1965).
(6) What has not been widely recognized apparently is the all too common consequence of the personal jeopardy that the forensic pathologist is placed in--defenseless, friendless, disgraced, and left with a severely tarnished professional reputation.
(7) The probable existence of motor anomalies could determine the appearance of dysphagia or reduce the effectiveness of motor clearance of the esophageal body, thus conditioning a situation of esophageal defenselessness against physiological or eventual abnormal episodes of gastroesophageal reflux (RGE).
(8) The behavior during dental treatment seems largely to be influenced by pain, feelings of defenselessness, absence of social support and of coping abilities.
(9) In a distant future, the solar system has been invaded by aggressive aliens and the Earth is all but defenseless.
(10) Peters wrote that the courts have not left Tommy and other chimpanzees defenseless, pointing out that New York has a ban on keeping primates as pets.
(11) This contribution shows which effects such a discussion may have on the care of a most defenseless segment of our society.
(12) Yet when it comes to the most beloved, innocent and vulnerable members of the American family — our children — we as a society leave them utterly defenseless, and the monsters and predators of this world know it and exploit it.
(13) I was stretched out like I’m being crucified.” The position left Hutcherson defenseless when an officer he said grew frustrated with interrogating him and punched him two or three times in the face.
(14) The mental patients were weak, defenseless, burdensome, and uneconomic; the unborn are weak, defenseless, burdensome, and uneconomic.
(15) Franco enlisted the help of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, who were eager to practice modern techniques of warfare on the defenseless citizens of Spain .
(16) In short, a man who was about to be charged with violent crimes against defenseless minors was free to roam the Penn State campus, as he pleased,” the report said.
(17) Last month, the NRA made a $3m ad buy in these states that branded Clinton as a “hypocrite” for accepting secret service protection, while calling for more gun control, which the ad charged “would leave you defenseless”.
(18) These facts suggest that not only intrinsic factors, such as defenselessness of airways, but extrinsic factors such as viral, mycoplasmal, or bacterial infection may act together on the mechanisms of the onset and progression of diffuse panbronchiolitis.
(19) Enraged, Smaug rains his fiery wrath down upon the defenseless men, women and children of Lake-town.
(20) We, as well as others, have shown the premature infants lack serum plasminogen; thus they are unable to develop effective fibrinolysis and are defenseless against pulmonary fibrin deposition.
Disarm
Definition:
(v. t.) To deprive of arms; to take away the weapons of; to deprive of the means of attack or defense; to render defenseless.
(v. t.) To deprive of the means or the disposition to harm; to render harmless or innocuous; as, to disarm a man's wrath.
Example Sentences:
(1) True, Syria subsequently disarmed itself of chemical weapons, but this was after the climbdown on bombing had shown western public opinion had no appetite for another war of choice.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Device explodes in New Jersey as robot attempts to disarm He said the chicken store had faced complaints and problems in 2012, when the city council and police ruled that it should close at 10pm.
(3) Shortly after Blair and Straw issued their denials, Sir Richard Dearlove, who was head of MI6 at the time, said: "It was a political decision, having very significantly disarmed Libya, for the government to co-operate with Libya on Islamist terrorism.
(4) The French president, François Hollande, flew into the Central African Republic on Tuesday evening following an announcement earlier confirming the deaths of two French soldiers in clashes with militia forces they had ordered to disarm – the first losses in the French campaign in its former colony.
(5) … In response to the shooting of Kharkiv mayor Gennady Kernes Everything happening now in Ukraine attests to the immediate need to disarm all militant groups, beginning with the Right Sector fighters, and to begin real, and not simulated, work of constitutional reform in the Ukrainian government and a search for international agreement.
(6) I think it’s been part of my survival,” she says with disarming frankness.
(7) Speaking at a Fabian Society gathering at the weekend, Lord Mandelson was typically and disarmingly frank.
(8) She walks through the rain to better feel her passion for the disarmingly libidinous walrus of love.
(9) A full-length cDNA copy of TMV genomic RNA was constructed and introduced into the genomic DNA of tobacco plants using a disarmed Ti plasmid vector.
(10) The idea behind the truce – which was announced on 20 June – was to give pro-Russian rebels a chance to disarm and to start a broader peace process including an amnesty and new elections.
(11) She also disarmingly reports: "He says I don't know a lot, which is beautiful and really refreshing."
(12) (Those soldiers did not disarm as demanded, but could not advance.)
(13) He has this hilarious, very dry sense of humour, and just before I left, I said to him, ‘So what do you think?’ And he typed out, ‘I wish you luck.’ And then, with this really cheeky twinkle in his eye, added, ‘But not too much.’” Demis Hassabis gives me his own disarming smile.
(14) But proponents argue a nuclear weapons ban will create a moral case – in the vein of the cluster and land mine conventions – for nuclear weapons states to disarm, and establish a new international norm prohibiting nuclear weapons’ development, possession, and use.
(15) In the first comments to come out of Damascus since the accord to disarm Syria of its chemical weapons, brokered by Russia and the US, was announced, Ali Haidar, paid fulsome tribute to its longstanding ally, praising "the achievement of the Russian diplomacy and the Russian leadership".
(16) Camping was disarmingly honest about the impact the world's inconvenient continuance was having on him, after he predicted 200 million Christians would rise to heaven by 6pm on Saturday followed by the destruction of the Earth in a massive fireball.
(17) Updated at 8.10am BST 7.08am BST Summary 0600 GMT deadline for pro-Russian separatists to disarm and withdraw from the Eastern city of Slaviansk.
(18) Monuc, the UN peacekeeping force in Congo, is currently supporting a much-criticised Congolese army offensive to disarm the FDLR in the east of the country.
(19) Around 1,300 FDLR fighters have been disarmed and repatriated to Rwanda since the offensive began, according to the UN.
(20) He accused the regime of holding double standards, arguing that it had not yet disarmed nationalist militias who supported the ouster of former president Viktor Yanukovich.