The unknowns desperate for their big break are easy prey.
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Rights activists say they become easy prey for human traffickers.
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She ended up on the streets, easy prey to the gangs.
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Such frogs — some harmless, yippy, simple-sighted house gyp's easy prey.
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They maintained control by instilling fear, battering prisoners who were easy prey.
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I think a lack of self-esteem just made me easy prey.
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" A song on that album is called "Humans Are Such Easy Prey.
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A greater concern should have been that they became easy prey for scammers.
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This makes them easy prey for poachers, who can simply pick them up.
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Such shady practices make the chaebol easy prey for officials seeking bribes, analysts said.
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Most are fleeing economic hardship and conditions that make them easy prey for traffickers.
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Baby birds are often near the ground and easy prey for cats, he says.
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There is an ignominious roster of people who thought that Nadler was easy prey.
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Stunned, the fish is easy prey for the cone snail, who engulfs and consumes it.
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They have done it successfully for years, and see you as easy prey, I suspect.
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They become easy prey for the pumas that prowl the pampas at dawn and dusk.
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Jojo, the reluctant hero, is a classic Ward protagonist: a tender, ungainly teenager — easy prey.
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They are at the mercy of cartels and kidnappers, who see them as easy prey.
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And it is that careless confidence that makes us easy prey, soft victims for determined evildoers.
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Cameras, routers, security systems and toys often use far less security than computers, making them easy prey.
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Unaware of their true interests, they were easy prey for demagogues, who appealed to their lowest instincts.
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Instead, they were easy prey for their opponents who outsmarted them with a series of quick breaks.
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Desperate to send money back home to feed their families, migrants make easy prey for traffickers, campaigners say.
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When an operating system enters this phase, it becomes easy prey for hackers who can exploit unpatched vulnerabilities.
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This makes them easy prey for thieves and rapists who hide in the thick foliage of southeastern Oaxaca.
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A fox is easy prey, and when hunting in pairs, eagles are capable of bringing down a wolf.
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Just imagining a bunch of pupfish not farting and popping back up to the surface and being easy prey.
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Seeing what it thinks is easy prey, the coyote closes in to grab the baby bison and take off.
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They are often excluded from festivals and other gatherings, and are easy prey for men looking to take advantage.
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Many children are left home alone while their relatives work long hours, making them easy prey for gangs, he said.
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Relying heavily on commercial radios and cell phones with internet access, Islamic State fighters are easy prey for the planes.
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This has made it easy prey for charlatans like Paul Ryan, who pretended to be serious about his fiscal principles.
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The pangolin's defense mechanism against predators -- rolling itself into a scaly ball -- unfortunately makes it easy prey for human hunters.
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At Trump speeches and rallies, journalists are penned in by metal barriers, making them easy prey for heckling and ridicule.
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This is why they usually don't survive in the wild, because they're uncoordinated, and they're easy prey for predators like birds.
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The elfin "upper class" Eloi are seemingly content, but are in fact easy prey for the ape-like "working class" Morlocks.
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When people feel their world is vanishing, they are easy prey for fact-free magical thinking and demagogues who blame immigrants.
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He has always stumbled in his impromptu speeches, frequently making the kinds of gaffes that make him easy prey for opponents.
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They're easy prey for botnets, spyware, and dozens of other criminal schemes, a persistent problem for anyone trying to secure the web.
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They are easy prey for such conspiracy theories because language and cultural barriers keep them at a distance from mainstream health care.
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Like cancer patients, transplant patients are easy prey for infections because their immunity is suppressed by the drugs that prevent organ rejection.
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There was an adolescent beauty and friendliness to the town that couldn't last, that made it easy prey for opportunism and exploitation.
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A particularly vulnerable target is your local elementary school and playground, because of the perceived helplessness of children — easy prey for terrorists.
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Migrants forced to wait in border cities have become easy prey for cartels and gangs, which target them for extortion and kidnapping.
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That means they are not only deluded but unchecked, beyond the influence of any moderating force, easy prey for demagogues and hucksters.
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But according to a recent study out of University of Texas, we also are easy prey to the corrupt use of anonymous companies.
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"Wandering alone makes you easy prey for assault and/or theft, particularly if you've been indulging in alcohol," Avegno wrote in an email.
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They lived in a "subterranean world" without formal rights, documents or sense of belonging, at risk of violence and easy prey to traffickers.
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"A lone female scientist without the strong backing of a university must have looked like easy prey to 14 climate-action lions," Crockford wrote.
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These informants frequently point the FBI in the direction of suspects who suffer from mental illnesses and are thus easy prey for sting operations.
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Spicer and Priebus were easy prey because the dramatist (read President) had introduced them to us as characters who would inevitably be killed off.
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They don't understand that economically unsound and mismanaged integration projects will fall apart, leaving them as an easy prey to "populist hordes" they abhor.
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Like Wheeler's set-top box proposal, the business data reforms haven't yet been passed, making them easy prey for a new Republican-controlled FCC.
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"These scammers seem to have targeted my mother as easy prey, probably from the very first check she sent to them," Chrissie told us.
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The Embden geese laid dozens of eggs each season, but the eggs and goslings were easy prey for turtles that live in the pond.
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"Deprived, unprotected, and often alone, children on the move can become easy prey for traffickers and others who abuse and exploit them," UNICEF said.
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While professional athletes can wind up with a massive windfall in a relatively short period of time, they can be easy prey for scammers.
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"These vulnerable and unaccompanied children are easy prey for terrorists and criminals alike," said Manizha Naderi, the executive director of Women for Afghan Women.
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They make easy prey for traffickers, fed promises of a job and a better life - but often ending up in various forms of forced labor.
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Of course as the butterfly makes its maiden flight, a bird discovers the easy prey and eats it right in front of the nice family.
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If the animal kills a person it poses an even greater danger as it may lose fear for humans and see them as easy prey.
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"An experienced eye could easily foresee this tactic, though a child playing a game app is easy prey for such nefarious apps," the researchers said.
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Homeless, penniless and grieving, Delgado says she was easy prey for a charming man who promised to care for her, offering marriage and eternal love.
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As you know, Mr. President, the US was afraid that European (and other) nations decimated by war would become the easy prey of Communist ideology.
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Now they are increasingly engaged in active conflict zones, and in some places, like in northern Mali, they find themselves easy prey for terrorist groups.
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Often bored, jobless or school dropouts, teenagers are typically first introduced to gang life while loitering on street corners smoking marijuana, where they make easy prey.
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From Luna Lovegood to HRC, women are too often cast out for their smarts and energy, easy prey for loud mansplainers across classrooms and debate stages.
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Undocumented children are easy prey for traffickers using fake documents to transport them across borders to work in brothels or to sell their organs, experts say.
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Today, millions of people who feel left behind by the forces of globalization have become easy prey to the siren songs of isolationism, xenophobia and racism.
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The group has been holding more than two dozen captives, most of them Vietnamese sailors, who are easy prey for militants equipped with small, fast boats.
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They were all easy prey — or, in the parlance of an era when this kind of killing has become all too common, they were soft targets.
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Many are newcomers, unaware of the risks and security holes in the complicated yet lucrative world of cryptocurrency, making them easy prey for hackers and cyberthiefs.
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So he jumped up, sitting with his feet on his board, not letting his legs dangle below the surface as easy prey for the aquatic predator.
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Still mad about being rejected, Chuck zones in on what he considers easy prey, while Blair, who knows all about Chuck's history with women, eggs him on.
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Threat level: China is widely believed to engage in extensive intellectual property theft, and Lonsdale claimed that Google's open, "academic" culture leaves it easy prey to China.
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Albino turtles, she said, are not well suited to the environment; because of their color, they have no camouflage, making them easy prey for larger sea creatures.
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I found that the people who argued with links were easy prey as they often failed to understand a topic well enough to articulate their own opinions.
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Young people were welcoming to people and things who were new and different, which also made them easy prey for a con man such as Charles Manson.
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" When Charlie's father dies, the boy becomes easy prey for Captain Buck, the overseer of a plantation with a "rep-a-tation knowed even beyond Richland District.
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Without jobs or many prospects in Myanmar, as well as poor or non-existent legal protections in many IDP camps, the women are easy prey for traffickers.
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Their social striving makes them easy prey for Nicolaus, who Berryman plays as disarmingly personable, and Lester, a nondescript, sullen nerd who unravels into something much darker.
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His sense of duty is so clear that Kelly could fall easy prey to those in the West Wing who ascribe to, shall we say, less exalted motives.
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But soon detractors began to complain that the structure was already showing signs of deterioration and that the narrowness of the path made cyclists easy prey for muggers.
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In other conflicts, too, child soldiers have been plucked from the poorest communities, easy prey for religious leaders skilled at turning feelings of anger, exclusion and revenge into violence.
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But less-experienced individual investors are easily swayed by rumors and operate with a poor understanding of market fundamentals, making them easy prey for more systematic and sophisticated traders.
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The Army ordered lights along the East Coast to be doused or shielded to lessen the silhouetting of ships offshore that had made them easy prey for U-boats.
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"Unfortunately, Trump has decided to not welcome us and has left us as easy prey for those who consider America as an enemy and occupant in Iraq," he added.
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"We conducted this lighting offensive to show the Russians we are not easy prey and throw the regime off balance," said Abu Mujahid, from the Turkey-backed National Liberation Front.
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Most women and girls come from poor backgrounds with little education and are easy prey for recruiters who offer them non-existent jobs as cooks and waitresses in mining camps.
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Where Joffrey was cruel, Tommen was kind, but his youth and easygoing nature made him easy prey for manipulation from his wife Margaery Tyrell, his mother Cersei, and the High Sparrow.
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At the time, Joyce expressed concern that all the attention was too much, too soon, and that James was easy prey for nefarious forces who did not have the best intentions.
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Often poor and with little education, they make easy prey for traffickers, who lure their victims with false promises of well-paid jobs as cleaners and cooks in restaurants and bars.
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Scapegoated like the Jews in Nazi Germany, called insects like the Tutsis during Rwanda's genocide, they are Muslim people in a Buddhist land, dehumanized by their own government and made easy prey.
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He also has a lot to learn, having never ventured far from his home, which, among other things, makes him easy prey for Eretria (Ivana Baquero), a "rover," a sort of highway robber.
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Twilight naturally became easy prey for every holier-than-thou critic looking to pile on more shit—which the series chose to ignore by maintaining its teenage girl sell across four subsequent flicks.
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Instead, they will most likely be on the streets, where they will be easy prey for extremists who will exploit our broken promises on education as proof that peaceful coexistence can never work.
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In "Easy Prey Investors," Mr. Rosen presents a side-by-side example of one public company's 2011 financial results based on the previously applicable generally accepted accounting principles and the new international standards.
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In "Easy Prey Investors," Mr. Rosen presents a side-by-side example of one public company's 2011 financial results based on the previously applicable generally accepted accounting principles and the new international standards.
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Shaw Drake, the lead researcher of the report, said the area surrounding the ports of entry in Texas had been nicknamed the "hunting ground," where cartels see migrants as easy prey for exploitation.
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That made him easy prey for Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the nation's predominantly right-wing press, all painting Mr. Corbyn as a dangerous radical who would lead the nation to economic ruin.
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Pseudoscience autism "cures" can be good business, and parents can find themselves desperate for answers, making them easy prey, Shannon Des Roches Rosa, the mother of a high-support autistic teen, told BuzzFeed News.
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After tallying only 39 points in the second half of Friday's disappointing loss to the Detroit Pistons, the Thunder showed no discernible plan on offense Saturday and became easy prey for the resurgent Mavericks.
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In addition to having to worry about criminals in Mexico who see immigrants as easy prey, they also had to avoid Mexican immigration agents who could arrest them for being in that country illegally.
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And while the fire that caught the broadcaster Howard Cosell's attention during the World Series was at a school near the stadium, distressed and devalued properties across the Bronx were easy prey for arsonists.
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But campaigners say most polygamous marriages in Kenya, and other African nations, are fuelling poverty - with husbands neglecting one family over another - leaving thousands of women and children impoverished and easy prey for exploitation.
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In 2017, the Dallas News wrote that deportees "have become easy prey for violent criminal groups desperate for money," who hold them for ransom that relatives still in the US are pressured to pay.
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" McCarthy endorsed the opinions of the Wherry-Hill Committee when he continued to voice an excerpt from their report: "As has been previously discussed in this report, the pervert is easy prey to the blackmailer.
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Fractured into mini-states except in the south, the territory of present-day Italy was once easy prey for the centralised powers, including France, which began to flex their muscles in the late 15th century.
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BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Migrant children fleeing alone from Venezuela's economic and political crises, along with destitute Venezuelan migrants arriving without documents both make easy prey for human traffickers in Peru, anti-slavery experts said on Tuesday.
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But unlike e-commerce, where Amazon takes more than half of every online dollar spent in the U.S., logistics is filled with worthy competitors that have dominated the industry for a century and won't be easy prey.
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But Nesemalhar's story highlights a rising yet unacknowledged trend in the Indian Ocean island where a lack of opportunities for thousands of war widows is making them easy prey for traffickers who sell them as slaves overseas.
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But who could have imagined the hellishness of his new half-life, struggling to speak, to walk, to move; searching for words, so impaired and so desperate that he's easy prey for the most idiotic of lowlifes?
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EXCLUSIVE: US-funded police linked to illegal executions Easy prey for gangs El Salvador is a particularly violent place to call home, where gangs such as the infamous MS-13 are said to prey upon the newly-deported.
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With legions of them out there, waiting breathlessly to pounce on any perceived misstep, she has been easy prey for the innuendoes, allegations and slander that her high-profile enemies and the misguided media have sent her way.
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BEIRUT (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Children are more vulnerable now than ever due to conflicts and natural disasters with millions without homes or families, leaving them easy prey for human traffickers, Indian Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi warned on Friday.
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The most abject figure in this universe is the queen herself, whose illnesses, eccentricities and neuroses make her seem helpless and pathetic, easy prey for opportunists like Abigail and Sarah, who push her wheelchair and tend to her moods.
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Young men are easy prey for the organised gangs that conduct piracy operations, especially those in coastal towns who have long complained about rampant illegal fishing in Somali waters, to which the international community has largely turned a blind eye.
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While conditions in the shelter may have made them easy prey, their deaths came not at the hands of the system, but at the hands of an intimate partner who seized on the opportunity to commit the ultimate expression of domestic abuse.
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"More than his loss of a forearm, bad limp and other injuries, his deafness would have made him easy prey for the ubiquitous carnivores in his environment and dependent on other members of his social group for survival," said Trinkaus in a statement.
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The way to prevent yourself from falling easy prey, the consulate says, is to remember that German beer is much stronger than American brews, especially when served in a traditional liter glass (which, the guide reminds Americans, shouldn't be stolen from festival premises).
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In a report in May, UNICEF said that thousands of unaccompanied children attempting to make it across the Mediterranean from Libya to Italy can become easy prey for traffickers who often sell them into exploitation, sometimes akin to contemporary forms of slavery.
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Had Manafort not been exposed, he might have gone on to occupy a position of trust in the Trump administration, much as Reagan campaign manager Bill Casey wound up running the C.I.A. He would then have been easy prey to Russian blackmail.
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But one can easily find cases in which stories make us stupid — indeed, one of the main themes of Maria Konnikova's recent book, "The Confidence Game," is that our appetite for narrative can blind us to reality and make us easy prey to con men.
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In a way, those small shells were a curse on both their houses: Abingdonii and hoodensis were easy prey for the buccaneers and whalers who poured onto their islands in previous centuries and saw only defenseless, slow-moving meals that could easily be carted away.
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New research published last week on the academic website The Conversation chronicles what that means to the afflicted communities, people who by definition were in sufficiently dire straits as to require international intervention and therefore were easy prey for armed men bearing money and food.
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The expanded Refugee Admissions Program would offer "a safe and legal alternative to the dangerous journey many are currently tempted to begin, making them easy prey for human smugglers who have no interest but their own profits," Kerry said in a speech at the National Defense University.
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The Australia-born koala, named Killarney, was the only one of the zoo's 1013 koalas who often dared to leave her tree at night and roam the pen's ground, which apparently made her easy prey for the young male cougar that researchers call "P-22," officials said.
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LONDON (Reuters) - If London-born convert Abu Rumaysah is confirmed as the front man in the latest Islamic State video, then he will be just the latest in a long line of militants to emerge from a banned group the authorities say breeds easy prey for jihadist recruiters.
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After the government abandoned them, the mines soon grew again, this time at an unruly pace as wildcatters plowed into the forest, creating pools of stagnant water and a population of easy prey for the mosquitoes that breed in them, paving the way for the explosion of malaria.
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The setup usually makes the politicians easy prey for the press—but recently, congressional Republicans have been trying to avoid questions, hiding behind aides and taking what I can only presume are fake phone calls, in order to avoid sharing their feelings about the party's presumptive presidential nominee.
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"A rich nation which is slothful, timid or unwieldy is an easy prey for any people which still retains those most valuable of all qualities, the soldierly virtues," Roosevelt said, in his typical hyperbole, at the Naval War College in 1897, during his brief term as assistant secretary of the Navy.
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When the time comes to retake Idlib — and it will come — Mr. Assad and his allies will have corralled much of Syria's insurgency and its supporters into a small mountainous patch where they will be easy prey for the bombing and isolation tactics that have won victories elsewhere in the country.
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We passed by old pens where the island foxes had been bred when they were on the brink of extinction — an event caused by a complicated cocktail of invaders: golden eagles had been drawn to the island by piglets, which were easy prey, and welcomed as a check on the pig population.
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His uncle said that considering his nephew's family problems — he was estranged from his wife and kids, had a strained relation with his father, and had not been home in four years— ISIS, the terrorist group also known as the Islamic State, ISIL, or Daesh, had "found in Mohamed an easy prey," AP reports.
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You, with your lizard brain fueled by fear With the anger that cycles through your body, endlessly searching for a target: You're such easy prey for white collars, who trick you to look the other way… Not at the futures they themselves stole from your children, But (over there!) at those bodies graced with more melanin.
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"This technique for harassing and punishing a free press — now that it has been shown to be possible — is by no means limited to cases with racial overtones; it can be used in other fields where public feelings may make local as well as out-of-state newspapers easy prey for libel verdict seekers," one of the justices wrote.
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Her work not only provides a look at how two of the most monstrous regimes in history came to power in the 20th century, but a more universal sort of anatomy of what Margaret Atwood has called the "danger flags" that make people susceptible to demagoguery and propaganda, and nations easy prey for would-be autocrats.
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Related: El Salvador's Young People Are Killing, Dying and Running "I am pleased to announce that we have plans to expand the US refugee admissions program in order to help vulnerable families and individuals from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, and offer them a safe and legal alternative to the dangerous journey that many are tempted to begin, making them at that instant easy prey for human smugglers who have no interest but their own profit," Kerry said.
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