A pampered sitting duck is still a sitting duck, and I no longer have any illusions about everything turning out fine.
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Now China Inc would appear to be a sitting duck.
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He was already a sitting duck for a charge of
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Maybe Maddy would have been a sitting duck in any event.
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How do I move on when I feel like a sitting duck?
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So, does that mean we're still a sitting duck for a possible derailed election?
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Matt Bevin would likely be a sitting duck if Tuesday's gubernatorial election were about him.
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It's not perfect, but it makes the city somewhat less a sitting duck for total obliteration.
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It's a big problem to solve, and basically a sitting duck for a startup to attack.
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For example, we go from a SITTING DUCK at 17A to a STANDING ORDER at 26A.
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Our current electric system makes our country a sitting duck for an attack — cyber, physical or both.
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I was surprised I wasn't hit, because as a drummer on a riser I'm a sitting duck.
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With Sandra controlling the rest of the tribe, J.T. is a sitting duck if Nuku goes to tribal.
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Still more alarming was his appetite for teenage girls, which made him a sitting duck for honey traps.
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He can pick up a whole new army by flying Viserion to the sitting duck that is King's Landing.
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Then he'd pick up a whole new army by flying Viserion to the sitting duck that is King's Landing.
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As an American in Iranian territory, Gerecht said, Levinson would have been a "sitting duck" for the Iranian government.
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"They took it for granted that he was a sitting duck," said Tony Pua, an opposition member of Parliament.
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Otherwise, with no locks on places such as school bathrooms, "You'll be a sitting duck," her mother told her. 2.
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Plus, CBS is "a sitting duck" now that Moonves is out, media analyst Porter Bibb told CNBC on Monday morning.
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The Nightmare, meanwhile, is a sitting duck for an upgraded Q-beam, which is like a hand-fired Death Star cannon.
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The president remaining too long in one place especially at the White House becomes a "sitting duck" for press investigation overload.
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An investigation by The Texas Tribune and ProPublica in 2016 found that Houston was a "sitting duck" for the next big hurricane.
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Any number of things could collide, making Trump a sitting-duck president before he's even hung his name up in the Oval Office.
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And the operating system they're using is Windows 2000, which hasn't been updated for security for years, which means it's a sitting duck.
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This electoral alliance proved unwieldy from the outset, however, leaving the government a sitting duck for sniping from the Rajapaksas' formidable political machine.
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However, trust is hard to cultivate when an app that relies on your payment credentials lives in your smartphone like a sitting duck.
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The unrealism again in my eyes is they&aposre dropping right onto the target, broad daylight, and you&aposre basically a sitting duck.
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Even food retail's giant sitting duck, Walmart, is forecast to see pre-tax profits increase by a cumulative 6% over the next three years.
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Once I got stopped on the left rear on the restart, I was a sitting duck and they just went by me on both sides.
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Hamilton finally got past Vettel on the 32nd lap, with the German a sitting duck on fading tyres, and set off in pursuit of Leclerc.
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Her head movement is extremely limited, often simply pulling back and leaving her a sitting duck for punches after she has been feinted out of position.
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The idea is to lose this baggage so that Pru gets a racier valuation, but the unintended effect may be to make it a sitting duck.
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Because these counter fighters are so rarely getting out the side door after they place their perfect counterpunch, they become a sitting duck for follow ups.
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CockroachDB quite literally replicates itself like an insect and distributes information so it doesn't become a sitting duck, or die if we're keeping with the metaphor.
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When one lands a little too close for comfort, Galanopoulos — deciding he is a sitting duck — leaps from the cart and runs the rest of the way.
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She saved a couple herself but with Muguruza a sitting duck at the net, Halep slapped an attempted pass into the net to fall a set behind.
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With interest rates rising, adjustable rate mortgages will certainly be heading higher too and those with an ARM "are a sitting duck for a big increase, " McBride said.
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With interest rates rising, adjustable-rate mortgages will certainly be heading higher too and those with an ARM "are a sitting duck for a big increase," McBride said.
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But when I'm sitting there in a car with him in a minivan that he operates the doors to, I'm a sitting duck wondering what's happening to me.
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Last year, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune published a devastating article about Houston as a "sitting duck for the next big hurricane" and warned that Texas was unprepared.
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Presented by Performance Space 122 and La MaMa, it proceeds from a simple question: You're in Belgium, and you witness a man throwing stones at a sitting duck.
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Make your shopping lists and start browsing options for flights now, before this Sunday rolls around, and you'll deftly avoid being a sitting duck to the moon's powerful beams.
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As is so often the case, you can have the most fool-proof security operations around, but if some fool doesn't use two-factor authentication, you're a sitting duck.
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Even on Rockhold's tremendous check hook, he throws so much of his body into it that if he misses or his opponent makes it through, he is a sitting duck.
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That is where, in 2016, the U.S. made itself a sitting duck — and where polarized, ultra-bellicose Americans remain perhaps even more exposed to emotional manipulation in the coming election.
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When Thompson was first confronted with Woodley along the fence, appearing to be a sitting duck, he rushed in to punch Woodley and found himself being turned onto the fence.
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Officer Noor's contention is that he fired upon the perceived threat in order to protect his life and that of his vulnerable partner, who was a sitting duck in the driver's seat.
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About a quarter of a mile from the Atlantic and surrounded by marshes, its a sitting duck for surges and is increasingly at risk as sea levels rise due to global warming.
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Of course, moving from a static engine test to a cross-Pacific flight test would take considerable time, and the rocket would be a giant sitting duck for American targeting on the launchpad.
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"I urge you to release him as he is a sitting duck waiting to catch this virus as he also suffers from breathing issues," she wrote in a contact form seen by BuzzFeed News.
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I mean Bran was quite literally a sitting duck here But before we try answering all those, let's talk about why we shouldn't take Bran's assessment of the White Walkers' ultimate goal at face value.
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If data is centralized it risks becoming a sitting duck for powerful interests to try to get at, as well as generating a wealth of metadata that the controlling commercial entity can absolutely data-mine.
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Politically motivated, nation-state attacks like the Petya ransomware attack on Ukraine and the WannaCry ransomware attack on Britain quickly spread around the world, including into the U.S. Yet, our critical infrastructure remains a sitting duck.
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"The command and control of that capability is a sitting duck for the Iranians""Iran being able to hit the oil facilities without being seen or intercepted reinforced what has always been a concern: The Americans have a huge amount of military capability in the gulf, but the command and control of that capability is a sitting duck for the Iranians in the case of a regional conflict," said the NATO officer who does not have permission from NATO or their government to discuss the matter with the press.
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Rather than designating one machine or server to be a sitting duck for an attack, Illusive Networks plants false data at every endpoint and point of entry on a network–engineered to be virtually indistinguishable from the real thing, and invisible to regular users.
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Since his conviction, he'd made the rounds of safer spots, but when he finally hit USP Hazelton, a place that applied the old rules of checking criminals' paperwork to see if they were a snitch or sex criminal, Whitey was like a sitting duck.
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The National Guard showed up, the sound of a plane sent me into a hysterical panic, I wasn't sleeping, I was always worried, paranoid, ready to take off at the next attack, having nightmares and flashbacks, feeling like a sitting duck waiting to die.
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Where Machida was always a sitting duck after his big reverse punch, Horiguchi will always weave into a left hook, push the opponent away, or grab a clinch—these are the things that make a fighter harder to hit after he has dashed forward with uncontrollable speed.
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More to the point, Healthy Russell Wilson looked like a completely different quarterback than the poor schmo who was a sitting duck behind a terrible offensive line weeks earlier—and your humble columnist wrote in this very space that Wilson looked as good as, if not "better" than he ever has. Well.
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The sectional was a sitting duck for a Goodwill store, "but at the time I had no money, so I took it and it has really treated me well," said Mr. Zegen, who also carried off a lamp and two end tables (one of which has since gone to its final reward).
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If you need a bit more help, click on any of the theme clues to see the answer: 17A: Defenseless target SITTING DUCK 26A: Directive that's in force until canceled STANDING ORDER 44A: Notice when getting fired WALKING PAPERS 57A: Repeated comical reference RUNNING JOKE I'm thrilled to have my first puzzle published in The New York Times.
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In July, SmartDrive released two new sensors - SmartDrive SmartSense for Speeding for Conditions, and SmartDrive SmartSense for Sitting Duck.
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The idiom "sitting duck" which led to the series of lithographs and other media. Sitting Ducks is a lithograph created by the poster artist Michael Bedard in 1977. It depicts a literal interpretation of the idiom "sitting duck". Three ducks are relaxing in the sun on white chairs by the poolside, one looks up and notices two bullet holes in the wall.
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Ooi, Jeff (2005). "Perils of the sitting duck" . Retrieved 11 November 2005. On that day, a tearful Lee Kuan Yew announced that Singapore was a sovereign, independent nation and assumed the role of prime minister of the new nation.
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Camper Van Beethoven was preceded by several related garage bands based in Redlands, including Sitting Duck and the Estonian Gauchos (featuring future Cracker guitarist Johnny Hickman). These bands included future Camper Van Beethoven members bassist and vocalist David Lowery, guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Chris Molla, and often drummer Bill McDonald as well. The Estonian Gauchos and a late incarnation of Sitting Duck also included another future Camper Van Beethoven member, bassist Victor Krummenacher, whose joining allowed Lowery to switch to rhythm guitar. Sitting Ducks played a mixture of punk and acid rock, along with what Lowery described as "fake Russian-sounding music".
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Steaming up Flying Fish (So Sudo) Channel at high tide the first day, Gurke bombarded Wolmi-do island and the Inchon waterfront. Communist fire concentrated on three of the "sitting duck" destroyers, Gurke taking three hits that caused two wounded and minor damage.
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During his first mandate, due to the constitution, he had to announce general elections, which eventually took place in July 2005. The new prime minister elected Navin Ramgoolam, called him "a sitting duck" who is still yearning for power. He remained president until the end of his 5-year term, ending in 2008.
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This was intended to draw defenders towards him at a certain angle and help unleash his teammates into gaps. Ella wrote: :By standing close, the five-eighth ensures that he draws the open-side flanker. Any five-eighth standing close will look like a sitting duck to the flanker, who is therefore keyed up to flatten him.
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In 1985, he directed Gounod's Faust at the Vienna State Opera, conducted by Erich Binder with Francisco Araiza, Ruggero Raimondi and Gabriela Beňačková in the main roles. He did successful productions of La Boheme and Madame Butterly. Russell set up a company, Sitting Duck, to make video clips. "Videos are a magic new art form," he said.
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Coetzee for his part was dangerous and while sloppy, was getting his own shots home. The challenger's strong chin nullified Coetzee's power to some extent. The two exchanged momentum. Coetzee's lack of defense was more evident than usual, and he was a sitting duck for Page's counter-punching and his once dependable chin seemed to fail him, being stung and hurt often.
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He exited turn four too slow, and immediately Fittipaldi and Luyendyk were on his rear bumper. Mansell realized he was a sitting duck, and swept to the inside of the track to attempt to block. Fittipaldi quickly diced around, and got by on the outside to take the lead. Going into turn one, Luyendyk precariously swept by Mansell on the outside and took over second place.
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" Daspit recorded about the sixth one since Tonan Maru had become a "sitting duck", "... Hit. No apparent effect. This torpedo hit well aft on the port side, made splash at the side of the ship and was then observed to have taken a right turn and to jump clear of the water about from the stern of the tanker. I find it hard to convince myself that I saw this.
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In 1980, Monroig recorded and had his first "hit" with "Jamas te voy abandonar asi otra vez" (I'm never gonna leave you this way again). In 1982, he represented Puerto Rico in the "OTI" Music Festival with the song "Mirame a los Ojos" (Look into My Eyes). That year he also started his own record label "Mamoku" and later also founded his own recording company called "Sitting Duck".
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11, Issue 1; pg. 48-50, U.S. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD. Armed Chinese junks surrounded the ship, but in the meantime, MacArthur was relieved and the ship was moved away from its "sitting duck" role off the Chinese harbor. John A. Bole also steamed with support convoys into Inchon before returning to San Diego in mid-June 1951. The ship was underway again for Korea on 3 January 1952.
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In many areas, wild ducks of various species (including ducks farmed and released into the wild) are hunted for food or sport, by shooting, or formerly by being trapped using duck decoys. Because an idle floating duck or a duck squatting on land cannot react to fly or move quickly, "a sitting duck" has come to mean "an easy target". These ducks may be contaminated by pollutants such as PCBs.
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She is also involved in adventures with Georgie Jones, her uncle Dillon Quartermaine, and Sage Alcazar, who competes with her for a recording contract. The obnoxious Sage is murdered by serial killer Mary Bishop after she is locked in the Quartermaine freezer by a fed-up Georgie. Sage is a sitting duck for the killer, who mistakes her for Brook's adopted cousin Emily Quartermaine. After her death, Brook puts a poignant song written by Sage to music and records it.
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Tomas Haake from Meshuggah and Dave Konopka from Battles have both named What Burns Never Returns as one of their favorite albums, and guitarist Marnie Stern has cited a video of a Don Caballero performance as the inspiration behind her extensive usage of two-handed tapping. The track "Chief Sitting Duck" from the album For Respect was featured in the second season intro for the reality show Buzzkill on MTV and the program Icon featured their music more than three years after their 2000 breakup.
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After being hit she fired her second salvo of four torpedoes, but all missed. Glasgow meanwhile concentrated on T25, which soon after sustained hits in the region of the aft torpedo tubes, the Flakvierling and the 3.7 cm flak platforms, which killed or wounded all their crews. Then a second shell struck the German torpedo boat, which completely destroyed the mast as well as the funnel. T25 was now a sitting duck and requested T22 to attempt to come alongside and take off her crew.
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Hecksher arranged for her employment as a confidential agent in the Economics Division of the Office of Military Government (OMGUS). The mission, which became known as "Project Sitting Duck" was intended to determine the extent of suspected Soviet penetration of the American military command in Berlin. The Strategic Services Unit (SSU) falsified her "denazification papers" and gave her a new identity as "Hildegard Blum". The intention was that she should become a target for recruitment by Soviet intelligence and then a double agent controlled covertly by American Intelligence.
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Similar attempts had already been made using American "decoy" personnel to attract Soviet recruiters, but it was asserted that the Soviets had found it difficult to trust an American insider so readily as they might be persuaded to trust "a well-placed German secretary". "Project Sitting Duck" had to be deemed a failure in November 1946. Hecksher now changed tack, using another SSU agent to entice an MVD agent called Captain Skurin to recruit "Gambit" to the Soviet cause. At least one meeting between "Gambit" and Skurin took place in the French sector of Berlin.
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Highsmith wrote The Cry of the Owl between April 1961 and February 1962. She considered it to be one of her weaker efforts, calling its principal character "rather square ... a polite sitting duck for more evil characters, and a passive bore".Andrew Wilson: Beautiful Shadow – A Life of Patricia Highsmith, Bloomsbury, 2003, Highsmith drew on her own experience as a stalker; years before, when employed by a New York City store, she became obsessed with a woman she had waited on. She adapted these events for her novel The Price of Salt (1952).
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SmartSense for Speeding for Conditions is a sensor that alerts fleet managers when drivers are traveling at speeds deemed unsafe for specific road conditions, such as snow, rain, fog or sleet. SmartSense for Sitting Duck is a sensor that detects and reports vehicles that stopped, parked or stalled in a potentially hazardous undesignated or unsafe location. Fleet managers can then assist the driver. SmartIQ Transportation Intelligence - The company's SmartIQ Transportation Intelligence data analysis tools allow fleet operators to analyze driver performance by type, and to also manage safe driver programs.
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Swett was then transferred to NAS Santa Barbara, California, where he worked up a newly manned VMF 221 in the Corsair. Now carrier-qualified and assigned to the , Swett flew two strikes over Japan and then supported the landings at Iwo Jima and the operations on Okinawa. On May 11, 1945, he shot down a Yokosuka D4Y Judy kamikaze, which he described as a "sitting duck". Swett watched from the air as the Bunker Hill was struck by two kamikazes, causing such damage that he was forced to land on another carrier.
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Thinking they were under attack, Captain Lloyd Logan quickly ordered general quarters sounded. Dead in the water, concerned about ambush, and that his ship was a "sitting duck," Captain Logan had his crew look busy on decks conducting maintenance and operations, to make it appear as if the ship anchored in the water was planned. Captain Logan further ordered the ship's guns manned at all times, and the ship's two heavily armed small boats to be at the ready for launching. U.S. Navy gunboat USS Antelope patrolled around the Morgenthau to provide additional firepower in the event the cutter was ambushed.
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This plan also suffered from several problems. Most notable was the issue of timing; the Soviet missiles would be firing for only a few minutes, during which time the US had to detect the launch, order a counter-launch, and then wait for the missiles to climb to altitude. For practical reasons, submarines could only salvo their missiles over a period of minutes, which meant each one could only launch perhaps one or two Excaliburs before Soviet missiles were already on their way. Additionally, the launch would reveal the location of the submarine, leaving it a "sitting duck".
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I will not speak about the politics that contributed to our defeat." Former captain Zafar Iqbal later stated, "The entire team was to blame; we forwards missed chances, the defence left huge gaps that the Pakistanis exploited. Despite making great efforts to cover the gaps, poor Negi became a sitting duck and the Pakistanis scored at will [...] He was blamed solely, but every player was to blame [...] The atmosphere was vicious. I remember someone claiming that he had seen Negi come out of the Pakistan High Commission on match eve [...] Some even enquired whether Negi, with his first name Mir, was Muslim.
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In E for Ecstasy (a book examining the uses of the street drug ecstasy in the UK) the writer, activist and ecstasy advocate Nicholas Saunders highlighted test results showing that certain consignments of the drug also contained selegiline. Consignments of ecstasy known as "Strawberry" contained what Saunders described as a "potentially dangerous combination of ketamine, ephedrine and selegiline," as did a consignment of "Sitting Duck" Ecstasy tablets. David Pearce wrote The Hedonistic Imperative six weeks later after starting taking selegiline. In Gregg Hurwitz's novel Out of the Dark, selegiline (Emsam) and tyramine-containing food were used to assassinate the president of the United States.
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On several occasions he was passed by other vessels. The first was an unidentified freighter whose crew saw him but did not pick him up or even greet him despite his proficient shouts in English. Poon Lim contended that they would not rescue him because he was Asian and they may have assumed he was a stricken Japanese sailor, although another explanation is that German U-boats often set a "survivor" on a raft as a trap to get a rescuing ship to stop which made it a sitting duck to be sunk. A squadron of United States Navy patrol seaplanes did see him, and one dropped a marker buoy in the water.
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O'Bannon boldly attacked the , closing so near, the battleship could not depress her main battery far enough to fire on the destroyer. O'Bannons gunfire, in combination with the attacks of the rest of the force, damaged Hiei so badly that she was a sitting duck for the air attack, which forced her scuttling the next day. This first engagement of the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal was short but furious; two American light cruisers, in one of which Rear Admiral Norman Scott lost his life, and four destroyers were lost, while two Japanese destroyers were sunk, and Hiei prepared for her doom. Above all, the Japanese were turned back, and Henderson Field was saved from destruction.
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The player must also deal with virtual defences, represented by enemy ships which pose a threat to the player's ability to jack in to the system, and which must be defeated. While viewing the 2D schematic, the action in the 3D world continues, so it's essential that enemy ships have been dispensed with before puzzle-solving can proceed. Otherwise, the player becomes a sitting duck. The player controls Chad in the 3D section of the game while in the 2D section Kaf-E follows a path throughout the building and attempts to reach the lift to the next level, messaging Chad if she encounters an obstacle or notices something that could assist.
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Luyendyk, Stewart and Goodyear pitted three laps later, but Stewart stalled his car and placed behind Goodyear on the Lap 170 restart. Both were able to pass Luyendyk, who also developed understeer in his car, and Lazier soon became a sitting duck against all three of them on Lap 175. Twenty laps from the end, Stewart passed Goodyear but, five laps later, the slowing car of Buzz Calkins made him go high on the exit of Turn 4, which allowed Goodyear to regain the position. Luyendyk tried to follow his teammate by passing Stewart on the backstretch, but Stewart closed the door on him, forcing Luyendyk to put two wheels on the grass.
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The Navy radio station at Dutch Harbor burning after the Japanese Attack, 4 June 1942 According to Japanese intelligence, the nearest field for land-based American aircraft was at Fort Morrow AAF on Kodiak, more than away, and Dutch Harbor was a sitting duck for the strong Japanese fleet, carrying out a coordinated operation with a fleet that was to capture Midway Island. Making use of weather cover, the Japanese made a two-day aerial bombing of the continental United States for the first time in history on Dutch Harbor in the city of Unalaska, Alaska on June 3, 1942. The striking force was composed of Nakajima B5N2 "Kate" torpedo bombers from the carriers and . However, only half of the striking force reached their objective.
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This radar was able to pinpoint small targets with great accuracy. The 98th Wing was the first to be equipped, followed by the 19th and 307th. The first nighttime raids began in November 1952, and continued throughout the remainder of the Korean War. However, night fighters and radar-controlled defenses did cause significant losses. On 10 June 1952, four B-29s of the 19th Bomb Group were lit up by 24 searchlights. They were instantly attacked by 12 Migs which shot down two and severely damaged a third causing it to crash. The B-29 for all practical purposes had become a sitting duck. Between 18 November 1952, and 30 January 1953, communist night-fighters shot down five B-29s and severely damaged three more using a combination of radar-directed searchlights.
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On 3 October it attained operational status with a complement of about 40 Me 262A-1a jet interceptors. Over the next month and a half the unit operated against allied aircraft, while at the same time trying to establish proper tactics for a jet fighter unit. It also had to deal with many technical problems plaguing the unproven Me 262. Focke-Wulf 190D, JV 44 protection squadron The unit was the first to realise that a dedicated protection- squadron of single piston-engined, single-seat fighters like the Bf 109G and Fw 190 were a necessity for the jets, as the Me 262 could not manoeuvre or accelerate well at low speeds, and thus was a sitting duck for any allied fighters nearby during take-off and landing.
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" Räikkönen said his team Lotus had made a strategy error dropping him from second to fifth in the final laps: "It's three races now where we haven't had the result we maybe expect, but hopefully if we can have a bit more luck and also get rid of some of the mistakes we'll be able to get back to the front." The team's head of trackside operations Alan Permane confirmed they had made an strategy error. Di Resta believed his team Force India would be happy to finish ninth and Ricciardo saw his eighth-place finish as "a missed opportunity to score more points" due to the fast pace of his car. Button on used, cold tyres said he was "a sitting duck" because he was vulnerable to being overtaken after the safety car was deployed: "I was just waiting for people to pass me.
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William Elliott Within an hour, the wind had shifted to the south, forcing the French line to separate and bear to the west, as it could not hold its course into the wind. This allowed the British to use their guns on both sides of their ships without any fear of return fire from the front and rear of the French ships they were passing between. The effect was greater with the use of carronades, with which the British had just equipped nearly half their fleet; this relatively new short- range weapon was quicker to reload and more of them could be carried. moving in the wake of the Ville de Paris under command of Captain D'Escars was the next victim; virtually a sitting duck due to damage in the previous ten minutes from HMS Duke, she was quickly pounded and dismasted by intense fire.
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The White Base is designed with a 3 plane view method by Kunio Okawara, however it was not specially designed for the anime series Gundam, it originated as a salvaged design from the anime Invincible Steel Man Daitarn 3.Gundam Century Renewal Version, Kishosha, 15 March 2000, The idea of having a space carrier from the director Yoshiyuki Tomino was partly inspired by the earlier science fiction anime Space Battleship Yamato, which he claimed to be a fan of. It was intended to be in a more realistic black colour, but was changed to white by the order of Sunrise, similar to the colour change of the main mecha Gundam from grey to white, red, blue and yellow. Tomino showed great disgust in the colour change, also noticing the unrealistic non- aerodynamic design of it after the show was on air, said in an interview that such a design would never appear in the real world, since it would be a sitting duck from fighter aircraft.
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Gundam Century Renewal Version, Kishosha, March 15, 2000, The idea of having a space carrier from Tomino is partly inspired by the earlier science fiction anime Space Battleship Yamato, in which he claimed to be a fan of. It was intended to be in a more realistic black color, but was changed to white by the order of Sunrise, similar to the color change of the main mecha Gundam was changed from a grayish white to white, red, blue and yellow. Director Tomino showed great disgust in the color change, also noticing the unrealistic non-aerodynamic design of it after the show was on air, said in an interview that such design would never appear in the real world, since it would be a sitting duck from fighter aircraft. Tomino still held a grudge 10 years after the show aired and stated in an interview in Newtype 1989 April issue that the imaginary enemies of Gundam are Sunrise, sponsors and television stations.
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