(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.
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.