That made them easy targets for the police, she believes.
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In El Salvador, both traditional parties made for easy targets.
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Indeed, tech firms are easy targets for anyone worried about change.
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The kidnapped women, unprotected and far from home, became easy targets.
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The honeybees are especially easy targets when clustered in their hives.
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ARE YOU SETTING YOURSELF EASY TARGETS SO YOU CAN BEAT THEM?
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Riding public transportation can make gang members easy targets for rivals.
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In this way, according Leuders, they become easy targets for mugshot websites.
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These markers made them easy targets for the fiercely territorial Salvadoran gangs.
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They are easy targets, of course, due to a few bad actors.
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It also doesn't help that massive oil plants are just easy targets.
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"These are easy targets, a low-risk outlet for racism," he said.
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Given the hype surrounding smart-home and automotive technology, they were easy targets.
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Activists warn that going after easy targets can damage communities in several ways.
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People usually murder where they nest; they aim their rage at easy targets.
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This was counterintuitive for an elk: eyeballs offer easy targets for hungry magpies.
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And according to Malone, founder of Fidelum Partners, Trump has some more easy targets.
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Our diminished overall health makes us vulnerable to others who prey on easy targets.
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High profitability and ultra-high executive pay are easy targets for left-wing politicians.
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And not take potshots at easy targets for marketing, political and personal career gain.
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Some furries call it "fursecution," believing they make easy targets for others to persecute.
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The Lord Of The Rings star says innocence unfortunately makes child actors easy targets.
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Stephenson's problem was that the big media companies he deemed attractive were not easy targets.
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Commanders report exact coordinates for enemy positions, giving you easy targets for artillery and aircraft.
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"It's an easy way for people to make sure they aren't easy targets," Heid said.
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The wicked satirist Bruce Norris ("Clybourne Park" and "Domesticated") has sometimes aimed at easy targets.
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"A lot of women have been easy targets when their performance weakens," Mr. Sonnenfeld said.
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They seem to defend the idea only when they have easy targets, like college students.
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Investors make easy targets, but simply blaming VCs wouldn't be honest or true to my experience.
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Vulnerable patients make easy targets for companies willing to sacrifice ethics for a shortcut to profits.
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Undocumented-immigrant motorists, who receive their salaries in cash and drive without licenses, are easy targets.
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These are, admittedly, easy targets, but Senna lampoons the worlds she knows, the people she's been.
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As deliveries soar during the holiday season, packages left on doorsteps are easy targets for criminals.
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It's like if you're playing a video game and there's all these easy targets, worth 100 points.
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Her detractors say she has since picked easy targets, predominantly American technology firms, to make herself popular.
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First and foremost, clowns are earnest, which makes them easy targets for ridicule and stereotyping, said Kohlberger.
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Geminis tend to have big personalities, which makes them easy targets for reductive, albeit pretty funny, stereotypes.
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The ban is aimed at protecting Americans from becoming easy targets for imprisonment by North Korean officials.
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US troops in Syria are poorly defended and have little support, making them easy targets, experts say.
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Older routers models are typically protected with weak default passwords, which has made them easy targets for hackers.
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"We're easy targets," the actress-singer, 23, says in the May issue of GQ, out everywhere April 26.
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Specifically, he considered the easy targets to be oil companies that can make money at $40 a barrel.
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Though most residents of Nuevo Laredo have expressed sympathy and kindness, the migrants are easy targets for gangs.
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That, in turn, would make them easy targets once the crown got around to punishing them for treason.
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Photo: Alex Cranz (Gizmodo)iPhones are expensive, so it makes sense that they'd be easy targets for scammers.
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The new arrivals are often unfamiliar with their fast-changing former home, making them easy targets for gangs.
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Clothing and accessories are easy targets, she says, because they're so clearly loaded with class and clique symbolism.
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"Same Same" reaches literary heights of its own, even if it occasionally punches down at some easy targets.
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"There's a whole range of things that lie behind the easy targets of smoking and obesity," said Newton.
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They're not likely to do that for as long as they have enough easy targets on a Windows platform.
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They are slow, easy targets and hold so much body fat that they float when killed, according to NOAA.
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Many were built on 1990s-era software, making them easy targets for anyone who knew their way around computers.
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" The report states, later noting: "Children in institutional care, including government-run facilities, can be easy targets for traffickers.
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But they are also easy targets for cash-flush propagandists, while acting as gatekeepers for cash-poor media organizations.
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The folks in power are always easy targets for folks out of power when the economy is the issue.
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The book takes a few stabs at easy targets, and its resolution, though moving, is more afterthought than culmination.
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Nonetheless, many diseases now rampaging at large are relatively easy targets, according to interviews with half a dozen experts.
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Marines were forced to wade ashore, making them easy targets for Japanese gunners, who were prepared for the assault.
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In other words, we turn them into easy targets for the predators we are trying to protect them from.
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"They were easy targets," Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Reinhold Mueller said in closing arguments, according to the Register.
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That combination makes them easy targets for hackers, who can use the devices to build botnets or launch ransomware attacks.
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"They were easy targets," Deputy District Attorney Reinhold Mueller said in his closing argument, according to the Orange County Register.
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Of course, if Trump delivers on his most frightening immigration promises, it won't simply be because immigrants are easy targets.
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I'm confident that law enforcement would not allow us to be bunched together, where we would be such easy targets.
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They're easy targets and they're really overexposing themselves (they were just on SNL and are on an international tour now).
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But rather than offering realistic solutions, candidates in both parties are blaming our problems on easy targets who breed resentment.
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Many boats, and their engines, are often easy targets for thieves whether it's at a marina or in someone's backyard.
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Devices like web cameras are notoriously insecure and cars have proven to be easy targets for hackers using wireless connections.
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"Bats, with their fluttering zig zag flight, are not easy targets," Attenborough says of Zubat, a poisonous bat-like Pokémon.
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Mr. Riley misses a few easy targets, and occasionally shows off his skill at shooting oversize fish in tiny barrels.
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As long as the left offers easy targets, Ms. Weidel and the Alternative for Germany will only increase their attacks.
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The rules of engagement were tight, and insurgents typically did not expose themselves in ways that made them easy targets.
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This made them easy targets for the Republicans, who became the party of law and order under Nixon and Reagan.
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Obsessed with their credentials and careers, helicopter-parenting their children until they're admitted into the "best" colleges, professionals make easy targets.
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People with disabilities, Molly says, are easy targets for sexual assault, so she's wary of men liking her for being blind.
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With a national student-loan debt total of $2083 trillion, borrowers are in a precarious position that makes them easy targets.
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Security researchers also fear that airplanes themselves are easy targets for hackers, given the increasing amount of Internet-connected features onboard.
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The fate of Americans abroad -- easy targets in any violent backlash in the Middle East -- also weighs heavily on presidential consciences.
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But the wolves, it turns out, aren't that picky when it comes to dinner, and ranchers' cows make for easy targets.
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Like LVMH, branching further into the fast-growing jewelry would make sense, analysts said, although there are few easy targets available.
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" But the best one might be his comment on those irritating Zubat: "Bats, with their fluttering zigzag flight are not easy targets.
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The listed entities mostly include "easy targets," according to Andrea Berger, a senior research associate at James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies.
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And the intense dislike for Obama on the right made candidates who appeared to be running in his political footsteps easy targets.
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Perhaps economic insecurity simply generates a need for scapegoats, and minorities are easy targets—especially if they rely on taxpayer-financed benefits.
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I have since learned that Asians are seen as easy targets because of perceived language barriers and a reluctance to report crimes.
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Thousands of people, mostly members of Mr. Machar's ethnic group, the Nuer, are concentrated in rows of tents, easy targets for artillery.
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The police are some of the main circulators of the substances, and often convicts are easy targets for heroin at high prices.
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During previous speeches, Trump has baselessly suggested wind turbines make easy targets for terrorists, and claimed they are especially dangerous for birds.
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If the young Southern gentleman thought that they would find easy targets in the men they kept enslaved, they were very wrong.
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The concern was that there were robberies in that area by gang members and cops were worried the rappers were easy targets.
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"Children in institutional care, including government-run facilities, can be easy targets for traffickers," the department's annual Trafficking in Persons report concluded.
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Eldoret, like most cities in Kenya, is home to its share of con artists, and athletes flush with cash are easy targets.
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Nearer the fence, young men burned tires, crept up with wire cutters or improvised firebombs — and presented Israeli snipers with easy targets.
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They actually become cannibalistic during swarms, and insects that don't move with the flow of the group become easy targets for killing.
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Women's vulnerability, lack of education, and absence of protection makes them easy targets, and it makes it easier for them to be manipulated.
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Still, because poor children, elderly people, and disabled people are pretty easy targets, SNAP probably won't be catching a break from Republicans anytime soon.
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The concern, cops said, was that there were robberies in that area by gang members and cops were worried the rappers were easy targets.
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Experts say the pervading silence means most girls are not educated about their rights, which makes them easy targets for these more serious crimes.
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Fleischmann knew they were all easy targets out there on the field, so he decided to make a run for the first-base dugout.
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Until policy makers start putting people at the heart of their fight against disinformation, they will continue to be easy targets for Russian lies.
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The agents are powering an investigation that has shadowed Trump's entire presidency — and they are mostly unknown to the public, making them easy targets.
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While that is unlikely to happen, the program's provisions for contraception and other services that women disproportionately use will be early and easy targets.
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This arrangement does not allow for a popular mandate and thus confers little legitimacy, a big reason Lam and her predecessors have been easy targets.
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And while you can debate the usefulness of putting Wi-Fi in every last appliance in your home, it undoubtedly gives hackers more easy targets.
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But it appears that the Obama administration is caving to the politics of the moment, where immigrants are scapegoats and easy targets to gain votes.
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The stocks have had high-flying market success and lofty valuations, making them easy targets for skittish profit-takers should the stock market turn sour.
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With foot traffic notably on the decline at malls across America, department stores look to be easy targets for activists seeking to shake things up.
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It always seemed ... celebs were easy targets, because they either posted their whereabouts on social media or their schedules were in plain view of the public.
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Schools, as all-in-one symbols of government authority and a modernist view of the future that jihadists loathe, provided easy targets and maximal shock value.
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While many sex workers remain vulnerable to exploitation in Myanmar, trans sex workers and their supporters say widespread hatred towards their community makes them easy targets.
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Although this insecure default isn't in the latest version of MongoDB, there are still lots of older databases online that are easy targets for cyber criminals.
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Thomas and Lee have turned that kind of sickening hatred into a telenovela, spiked with easy targets and derisive laughter—by the many for the many.
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Such cemeteries have become easy targets for vandals in a region with an uneasy relationship to its wartime past and a tendency to vote far right.
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Migrants are easy targets for criminals who rob, kidnap, and rape people who take isolated routes in an effort to avoid being detained by Mexican immigration authorities.
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Some have been easy targets for ridicule, such as the president playing Tom Cruise in a fighter-pilot suit, or laughing at the Elysée Palace with Rihanna.
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Add to those circumstances the fact that many patients are isolated from older support networks or their families, and experts say that can make patients easy targets.
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Lawful businesses therefore have to decide between investing heavily in security that other businesses do not need or making themselves easy targets for would-be armed robbers.
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Such prisoners have long been considered bargaining chips to negotiate with the Taliban, but occasionally they have become easy targets for punishment that appeals to public rage.
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HACKER LOOKS TO SELL 655,000 ALLEGED PATIENT HEALTHCARE RECORDS ON THE DARK WEB The aforementioned games were likely easy targets for thieves because of their size and scale.
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Our country is facing serious and difficult challenges, but rather than offering realistic solutions, candidates in both parties are blaming our problems on easy targets who breed resentment.
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Given the huge lead that prime minister Theresa May has established for herself in the national polls over Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader, they should be easy targets.
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Without the law, Hindus say their women were easy targets for rape or forced marriage and faced problems in proving the legitimacy of their relationships before the law.
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Insurance companies may make for easy targets, but blame really lies with the state of Michigan, which has put bad policy in place and failed to fix it.
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"Dinosaurs, especially young ones, would have been easy targets, very much like the young of nesting birds and mammals today," he says in an email to The Verge.
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Though no one knows if the data was actually stolen, it was easily accessible on the public internet, and anyone trawling for easy targets could have accessed it.
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Women, from this point of view, are easy targets—especially older ones or widows who are not protected by men anymore, or those who share the same husband.
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Nutrition studies — which are virtually impossible to do in ways that lead to bulletproof conclusions — also make easy targets: They're easy to critique and interpret in different ways.
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The relatively easy targets, experts said, include M.E.R.S., Nipah, Lassa, respiratory syncytial virus, Lyme disease, West Nile, Zika and the bacteria that cause strep throat and heart disease.
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"I think people are realizing that that might be part of the problem, that we're easy targets and people think we don't stand up for ourselves," he said.
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However, as homelessness has steadily increased in many major cities across the country in recent years, advocates and police have expressed concerns that unsheltered people are easy targets.
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Appearance: Classic Siamese Personality: Naive Pisces, the tender, flakey fish (mmm) tends to live in their feelings—which is also why they can be easy targets for manipulators.
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Madison tells us real estate agents had previously been warned about the dangers of wire transfers, and because they deal with escrow accounts all the time, they're easy targets.
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The internet being what it is, of course, some players uploaded pics of porn stars and slapped them on walls, making easy targets of players who stopped to gawk.
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They were not fast enough, however, to outrun bullets, and their extraordinary size and tendency to travel in herds made them easy targets for hunters during the 19th century.
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Aside from creating easy targets for identity theft, this behavior also cements strong habits that are hardly compatible with the cyber risks that everyone, including the kids, face today.
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In the case of slaughterhouses and packing plants with a majority of undocumented workers, employees become a factory full of sitting ducks, easy targets for wide-scale ICE raids.
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No matter how you cut it, none of this year's special elections clearly fall in the first category of easy targets for the Democrats, even in a wave election.
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The LAPD said they went there to actually protect the rappers since there were a bunch of robberies in the area and they feared the rappers would be easy targets.
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The majority of those people, more than 9,000, were sent from El Paso to Ciudad Juárez, a city plagued by brutal drug cartels and where migrants can be easy targets.
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Like those demagogues of years past, he said, candidates in both political parties focus on blaming "easy targets who breed resentment" for the country's problems instead of offering workable solutions.
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France Dispatch The cemeteries have become easy targets for vandals in Alsace, a region with an uneasy relationship to a troubled wartime past and a penchant for voting far right.
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That means teachers who are more openly critical as well as union-oriented ones will become easy targets for punishment, while their quieter colleagues will be discouraged from speaking out.
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They're easy targets for environmentalists as after all, their aircraft constantly leave reminders of their environmental impact whenever they fly overhead with the white puffy contrails that trail an aircraft's engine.
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"They are not going to be easy targets, but we thought we owed it to our shareholders to put something out there in terms of what we can deliver," Hartung said.
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Those defaults may have made it easier for Xiongmai to access devices and provide seamless customer support, but because Xiongmai didn't force users to change their logins, they were easy targets.
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Though plugins like Flash, Silverlight, Java, and QuickTime are still fairly common across the web—Amazon Video, for instance, leans on Silverlight in Safari—they are notoriously easy targets for hackers.
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Comcast gives its home security system customers a sign to put on their lawn indicating that Xfinity systems secure their homes—making them easy targets for thieves who know about the vulnerabilities.
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They say Creep Catchers' tendency to bait and switch, by first posting an advertisement as an adult and later revealing themselves to be a teenager, makes those with cognitive impairments easy targets.
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But President Trump and various Republican lawmakers have suggested that gun-free zones have become easy targets for mass shooters, leading to speculation about whether lawmakers will attempt to repeal the legislation.
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Drivers and police told Reuters the cash policy has provided easy targets for criminals, allowing them to open accounts under fake names, without credit cards to verify, and lure drivers into ambushes.
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The flimsiest sections of the novel were the swipes of social satire, aimed at easy targets (how difficult is it, really, to bring helicopter parents crashing down?), and the movie follows suit.
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Young Muslims who are in the process looking for an identity, and who feel alienated by rhetoric from Western leaders in the countries where they live, can make easy targets for recruiters.
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Editorial Americans have gotten into the uneasy habit of wondering how low President Trump might go each day in his multiple tirades against those he imagines as enemies, critics and easy targets.
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But they lack the support of web giants like Google — its partner, Comcast, staunchly supports the bill — and peer-to-peer platforms' reputation for unsavory content makes them easy targets for lawmakers.
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Picking off these easy targets is only the beginning of the administration's retreat from environmental sanity, using fantasy claims of job creation to cater to the Tea Party's resentment of federal regulation.
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The Bab al-Mandeb strait, where the Red Sea meets the Gulf of Aden in the Arabian Sea, is only 20 km (12 miles) wide, making hundreds of ships potentially easy targets.
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Because the stories of black girls are inadequately covered by the press, and because the girls themselves cannot always count on law enforcement to protect them, they become easy targets for predators.
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"These businesses are easy targets," John B. Devito, the special agent in charge of the New York field division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, said in a statement.
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Waiting can be dangerous for migrants who have to spend weeks in border communities before they can ask for asylum from US border authorities — they're often seen as easy targets by organized crime.
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They think there's no point in putting ballots up in the box, they've got no faith in this system no place in its cogs, easy targets, they be getting brainwashed by these nobs.
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These incidences highlight how terrorists target Christians because they are easy targets with no militias backing them and a weak central government that struggles to enforce the rule of law and protect them.
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So long as free people live in free societies and increasingly cluster in urban areas, they will be soft and easy targets for those who have apocalyptic dreams of watching the world burn.
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They are well-served when they want to access social services, programs, and legal aid—but they wouldn't need them if they weren't made such easy targets for police in the first place.
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For those observing hijab, even in the best of times, the Muslim Ban can heighten anxiety to simply go outside and tend to everyday matters since they can be easy targets for hate.
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"Not only are they at particular risk because the people they're fleeing from are in the very country they are forced to remain in, they are easy targets for organized crime," he said.
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But because all their bananas are clones, they're easy targets for a slightly altered version of the disease that has since evolved and can exploit just one vulnerability to attack every single banana.
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Because small businesses often use shared resources, such as group offices and public Internet, and because they lack the luxury of dedicated IT teams, they have become easy targets for hacking and phishing scams.
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But attempts to predict the future make for easy targets, and climate change skeptics have long sought to poke holes in older forecasts of climate change to undermine the credibility of today's dire warnings.
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The asylum seekers, he says, are easy targets because they are usually released by US authorities wearing shoes without laces and carrying a manila folder with documents and a plastic bag with their belongings.
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They must protect clients from the police and from criminals who know that clients are now easy targets, given that they can't report crimes committed as they were committing the crime of selling sex themselves.
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And since most visitors to a foreign country don't study for the foreign bar exam before they go, they are easy targets for confidence men and scammers, and also others like that outside the government.
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Journalists, constantly in the public eye, are easy targets for Pakistan's vague and lethal blasphemy laws, which criminalize any statement that is "defamatory" to Islam, religious texts, the holy prophet or anyone associated with him.
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In the absence of actual Jews in the Alsace countryside, their tombs have become easy targets in a region with an uneasy relationship to a troubled wartime past and a penchant for voting far right.
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Enlistment data paints a complicated portrait of the economic makeup of the military, but what we know about recruitment is more straightforward: The Pentagon views low-income kids as easy targets for its forever wars.
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As the crush of bodies pressed forward on the bridge, protesters were also turned into easy targets for the police officers who fired round after round of rubber bullets and bean bags in rapid succession.
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The rebel outlaw has become a favorite pop culture archetype, and since lowriders were the rebels among rebels, their distinctive style also made them easy targets for law enforcement who racially profiled drivers and riders.
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The fight is a familiar one in the city: As the amount of available land dwindles, the real estate market booms and the demand for housing increases, green spaces become easy targets for new construction.
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Workers in these low-paying restaurant jobs are often teenagers or adults struggling to pay their bills, making them easy targets for abuse, says Laura Palumbo, communications director for the National Sexual Violence Resource Center.
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But ATVM and other Energy Department programs are easy targets for a government that's largely ambivalent to global warming, the long-term, human-caused climate trend that scientists have called the biggest threat to future generations.
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For trolls, startups are easy targets, because startups often have limited resources, lack internal patent expertise and, with the average cost of defending a patent lawsuit hovering at $3.2 million, have a huge incentive to settle.
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As the street-level face of the government during protests, police say they are easy targets for public rage, but protesters say they have used excessive force at times and their surveillance tactics are heavy-handed.
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I am no exception to the habit of denigrating creatures of lesser stature; so far, I've used The Verge's animal review series to write several hit pieces on easy targets like giant water bugs and centipedes.
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With a topic as politically divisive as climate change, imprecise language and factually incorrect statements not only provide easy targets for the other side but also hinder conversations focused on building a consensus around real solutions.
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The pacifists and radicals who stoked the antiwar movement were easy targets for the patriotic right wing looking for scapegoats, but the visibility of women in the resistance to the war made them suspects as well.
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By focusing on large institutions with a track record of not keeping their technology systems up-to-date, global criminal organizations can cherry-pick easy targets that are highly susceptible to such hacks, Mr. Lord said.
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Here's one reason to avoid the so-called Internet of Things: Everyday items like lightbulbs become easy targets for hackers once they're connected to a network, meaning your mood lighting can quickly turn into a serious liability.
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Without such power, women become easy targets when, for example, business falls off or a company merges; age discrimination makes it all the more likely that such women will lose their jobs and not find new ones.
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The idea for centrists is that Bloomberg or Patrick could offer an insurance policy in later-voting states if Biden fades; the read from more left-wing Democrats is that more easy targets are entering the race.
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Borrowers are in a precarious position that makes them easy targets for relief scams — as many as 40% of borrowers could default on their student loans by 2023, Business Insider previously reported, citing the 2018 Brookings Institution report.
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"They are a soft target, for those that are doing not-very-sophisticated attacks and they are looking to ransom people and steal data, they are just scanning the internet for easy targets and outdated systems," Levin said.
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Naval vessels — not unlike cruise ships — are easy targets for infections, and sailors are accustomed to powering through the low-level respiratory illnesses common to warships, making it harder to stop something like the coronavirus before it spreads.
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"He could have inflicted maximum casualties, but he did not," said Oscar Albayalde, a police spokesman, noting that the man passed scores of unarmed, fleeing patrons, who were easy targets if he aimed solely to kill and frighten.
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Police used DNA matches in 2012 to tie Samuel Little to the murders of three women, whose bodies were dumped in alleys near downtown Los Angeles and who prosecutors have described as easy targets because of their drug problems.
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For-profit universities are generally viewed with scorn and derision, and not without reason; many of them are seen as nothing more than complex Ponzi schemes for their investors, easy targets for the late-night rants of satirical comedians.
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Workers in these low-paying jobs, and specifically chain restaurant jobs are often teenagers or adults struggling to pay their bills, which makes them easy targets for abuse, said Laura Palumbo, communications director for the National Sexual Violence Resource Center.
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But antifascists haven't only picked off easy targets like Milo Yiannopoulos' talk at UC Berkeley: They've also exposed the in-real-life identities of prominent neo-Nazi podcasters and moved to block white nationalist recruitment even in teensy towns of 6,000 people.
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While Amazon will certainly recruit from outside the area, people who already live in the Washington area would be easy targets, especially since the company will simultaneously be trying to recruit 25,000 people for its other new headquarters location in New York.
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They invert commonly held scientific findings: Native animals like boodies are easy targets for cats not because they evolved without such a predator, Ramp and his colleagues contend; they are more vulnerable to the strongest predators because of the attempts to save them.
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"It makes us fear for the future of our operations, because all of the serious aid organizations operate without armed guards, and we can be easy targets in this changing environment," said Dejan Panic, program director for Emergency, an Italian healthcare charity.
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In addition to these malicious software attacks, cybercriminals have sought out easy targets, particularly because going after "low hanging fruit" is less costly in regards to time and effort than it is to hone in on systems with security measures in place.
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Beyond that deal, Boeing and other companies that export jet engines, high-tech products or heavy equipment — and supply some of the highest-paying manufacturing jobs — are also concerned that they could become easy targets if Mr. Trump started a trade war.
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Facing such an uphill battle, it's tempting to pick off the easy targets like Dunham -- the imperfect feminists who despite (or because of) all of their human faults do actually care, and who will inevitably apologize for their missteps (and will inevitably misstep again).
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Latino and Muslim immigrants, on the other hand, are easy targets with decidedly less power in opposing the new administration's policies—and it's precisely because Trump could disappoint his base on his other key promises that he might double down on an immigration crackdown.
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Stiller and his co-writers (Nicholas Stoller, John Hamburg, and Leftovers star Justin Theroux, who reprises his Zoolander role as "Evil DJ") shoot at some mighty broad and easy targets in Zoolander 2, which makes it annoying that they land so few meaningful shots.
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"What Trump's efforts have caused us here in New York to think about are places where there are concentrations of voters who, I hate to say, are easy targets - a magnet for people who are extreme," said Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause New York.
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"We must never forget that Hyde was created because low-income women were seen as easy targets, and it has persisted because of a pernicious disregard for the needs of low-income people," says Jessica González-Rojas, executive director of the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health.
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But to say that Facebook is uniquely engaged in these business practices would be folly; on the contrary, these advertising and content infrastructures are commonplace across the consumer internet, which makes all the companies engaged throughout the digital ecosystem easy targets over which the Russians can push political disinformation.
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While the Iranian-backed attack on the United States Embassy in Baghdad seemed to be under control, it played to Mr. Trump's longtime worry that American diplomats and troops in the Middle East are easy targets and his longtime position that the United States must pull back from the region.
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PK: It was bipartisan, and really a continuation of the process of reciprocal trade liberalization that began in 22 under F.D.R. What changed under the "Kennedy Round" was that as easy targets for trade deals ran out, we shifted to internationally agreed formulas: cut all tariffs by X percent, then negotiate the exemptions.
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While school districts may not seem to be the obvious target for hackers in comparison to governments or essential services, Doug Levin, the founder and president of EdTech Strategies, a consulting firm, told The Hill that they are easy targets due to outdated systems and the fact that they handle large amounts of money.
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Mr. Ciotta, who was a corporal and demolition specialist with the 28th Marine Regiment, Fifth Marine Division, recalled Iwo Jima as a special kind of hell, in which members of his unit slogged their way over soft volcanic ash and were easy targets for Japanese soldiers hidden in caves and tunnels, and firing from so-called pillbox battlements.
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With the possible exception of his jokes about fatherhood, which are sharp, unsentimental and more economical than the rest of his digressive 70 minutes, Cross's labored new special picks easy targets: Grateful Dead cover bands, hippies, Southerners with thick accents, and Twitter memes (although he does have a good self-deprecating joke about his own failures at tweeting).
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Even this outpost, with bear warnings and no cell phone service, wasn't remote enough for campers to feel like they'd fully escaped the heaviness of what it means to be a Muslim in the US. One 18-year-old said she was relaxing, listening to birdsong, when it occurred to her that anti-Muslim attackers could burst onto the grounds and find easy targets.
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Read on for Ruch's "Your Dot" contribution, but first I encourage you to explore an article in High Country News last June reviewing violent incidents involving Bureau of Land Management employees and the magazine's excellent 2014 report featuring a pair of disturbing articles by Ray Ring and Marshall Swearingen: Defuse the West – Public-land employees are easy targets for a violent, government-hating fringe.
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