The phrase "a small and vulnerable" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is both diminutive in size and susceptible to harm or danger.
Example: "The wildlife conservation team focused on protecting a small and vulnerable species that was on the brink of extinction."
Alternatives: "a tiny and fragile" or "a little and defenseless".
These efforts reflect a small and vulnerable country's acute dependence on regional stability as much as they do an ideological stance or religious impulse.
That he was a small and vulnerable baby boy, raised by his mother and foster father, in a family that didn't look like any other.
In early August, Iraq's forces seemed poised for a possible invasion of Saudi Arabia, while the initial American deployment was essentially a small and vulnerable defense.
The attack immediately raised the spectre of the risks to a small and vulnerable country of the war raging next door without any prospect of it ending in the foreseeable future.
The militia had just seen most of the UN staff being evacuated, leaving behind a small and vulnerable group of UN officials, a host of refugees, and three foreign journalists - myself among them.
When he overthrew his father in 1995, Qatar's ruler, Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani, took control of what was a small and vulnerable country jutting out into the Gulf from the Arabian Peninsula.
In this heavily working-class Essex constituency, which had one of the highest proportions of Sun readers in the country, a small and supposedly vulnerable Conservative majority had risen rather than fallen at the 1987 election.
The issue of how national history is interpreted is potentially a question of national survival for Lithuania, whose status has shifted over several centuries from a major regional power to a territory of another nation, to an independent but small and vulnerable state.
But a land as small and vulnerable as Taiwan cannot afford to be picky about its allies — some of the smallest and most despotic regimes in the world (Swaziland's, for instance) have received generous aid from Taiwan in exchange for diplomatic recognition and an occasional mention in speeches at the United Nations.
"We have an exceptional situation on the market," said Mann, "where the milk price has slumped and there is a fear that small and vulnerable producers will be forced out of business". The move has been welcomed by organizations representing farmers, including the European group Copa-Cogeca.
It seemed then that parenting itself was a form of superpower — shepherding something as small and vulnerable as a newborn into an independent, free-thinking person.
