But now researchers have found that one predator does, in fact, show a preference for less-than-fully-capable victims.
That number depends on how long each victim remains capable of infecting new victims and how efficiently the microbe is transferred from one victim to the next….The germ that spreads better leaves more babies and ends up favored by natural selection.
But detailed proposals like these show that despite the tricky politics and enforcement hurdles, America is capable of giving victims of domestic violence access to better legal protection and a chance to escape the peril of their partner's gun.
The Kronos malware that Hutchins is accused of creating was sold on Russian hacking forums and was capable of stealing victims online backing details, PIN numbers, and credit card information.
Leicester have not won two titles already this season by accident and the manner in which they dispatched poor Gloucester last weekend was indicative of a confident team now capable of torturing their victims in a variety of ways.
Even when we know that dementia is mercilessly erasing experiences, we still feel that its victims are capable of keeping emotional tabs on their relationships, since those bonds were formed gradually over time.
Because there are "non-forcible" rapes involving victims not capable of giving consent because of their young age, physical helplessness, unconsciousness or mental incompetence.
And A. P. Singh, who represented three of the four men, called into doubt whether, after taking morphine, the victim was capable of giving an accurate witness statement.
But with this same combination of capable judicial actors, amplified victim voices and sustained international pressure, Guatemala can still demonstrate the power of local justice to deliver extraordinary results.
The virus was even capable of using a victim computer's built-in camera and microphone to watch and listen.
The other, the "materiality" test, requires that the defendant possessed a fraudulent intent and made "any misrepresentation that has the natural tendency to influence or is capable of influencing" the victim to change his behavior.
