Sentence examples for a less vulnerable from inspiring English sources

That has kept the government remarkably cohesive, cut down on military defections and left Mr. Assad in a less vulnerable position than Mr. Saleh.

The oil cooler has been moved to a less vulnerable spot, better for off-road riding, but the oil filter still hangs low, daring sticks and rocks to puncture it.

Harassed by police and venue officials under orders to clean the place up, he took his coin cup to a less vulnerable, if less lucrative location north of the river.

An important part of the answer lies in a court of appeal judgment from 1998, which says single homeless people are not given priority for housing assistance when homeless, unless they are "less able to fend for himself than an ordinary homeless person so that injury or detriment to him will result when a less vulnerable person would be able to cope without harmful effects".

One idea is that they divert predator attacks – either completely, or by misdirecting the predator to a less vulnerable part of the prey's body.

These protections actually put New York City neighborhoods in a less vulnerable spot than cities like New Orleans, where the precarious mix of tourism and poverty can have even worse outcomes.

Nor would they consider moving the tournament to a less-vulnerable country.

"But now we've moved to a design that's a little taller, and a little less vulnerable to geomagnetic disturbance," he said.

Early in the game, when the Panthers were a little less vulnerable and a little more confident, they stuffed the Giants' running game.

The Balts look a bit less vulnerable, the Caucasus a bit less chaotic, the Balkans a bit less bloody.

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