"acute vulnerability" is a grammatically correct phrase that can be used in written English.
You can use it whenever you want to refer to a particularly extreme feeling of vulnerability. For example, "The refugees experienced acute vulnerability when they were forced to flee their homes."
If adolescence is a period of great intellectual discovery for orangutans, it is also a time of acute vulnerability.
Increasing extreme weather events like the damaging European heatwave of 2003, revealed an acute vulnerability, for example, of traditional champagne-growing areas.
As an example of our acute vulnerability, taking London alone, it's sobering to reflect that its food footprint has been calculated to be so large that much of England would be needed to keep its population fed.
The story was a winner with the hushed, packed audience, which could probably connect more than most to the elements that made it so satisfying — acute vulnerability and shame, a comic spin that revealed the police to be as confused as the foreigners.
"Whether it was a primary or substantial factor is impossible to know, but drought can lead to devastating consequences when coupled with pre-existing acute vulnerability," said lead author Colin Kelley, who did the work at Columbia but is now the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Prime among these challenges is the acute vulnerability of populations (5), which requires prompt intervention rather than exploration of the comparative benefits and limitations of alternative approaches.
It is now recognized as an acute economic vulnerability because about 80 percent of exports are natural resources like oil and metals, making Russia susceptible to their price swings.
It is now recognized as an acute economic vulnerability, since about 80 percent of exports are natural resources like oil and metals, making Russia susceptible to their price swings.
Repeated use of amphetamines could increase vulnerability, thereby increasing the chances of developing psychotic symptoms even in the absence of (acute exposure to) amphetamines.
But there is an acute attentiveness and vulnerability to him as well.
While an entirely laudable and necessary objective, the means of securing it raise questions about the effectiveness and ethics of "micro-targeted" cash only programmes where general conditions are poor and all household members suffer acute deprivation and vulnerability.
