Sentence examples for for a predatory from inspiring English sources

While that did not happen, the cranes promptly scattered, perhaps mistaking it for a predatory eagle.

The footballer was convicted of an offence with distressingly low conviction rates, while his sentence for a predatory assault on a drunken woman seemed surprisingly short.

It is this fearful respect for a predatory, sometimes malevolent, nature that informs much of her fiction".Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.

Keen senses, large canine teeth, powerful jaws, and the ability to pursue prey at 60 km (37 miles) per hour equip the wolf well for a predatory way of life.

Keen senses, large canine teeth, powerful jaws, and the ability to pursue prey at 60 km (37 miles) per hour equip the gray wolf well for a predatory way of life.

First, routine activity theory (originally discussed in the seminal work by Cohen & Felson, 1979), predicts that for a predatory crime to occur a motivated offender must co-occur in time and space with a suitable target and the absence of a capable guardian.

Meanwhile, as DeVos works to dismantle protections for students and taxpayers against predatory for-profit college companies, new developments and disclosures by Bridgepoint Education, until April the employer of DeVos's senior counsel, Robert Eitel, remind us that her top higher education policymaker came from a predatory for-profit college company.

If this happened, if "men raped" instead of "women get raped" I would probably pay more attention, even if I felt somehow blamed by association, held responsible for the actions of a predatory and violent cohort of my gender.

There, mobile phones are fast becoming the dominant means of conducting one's business and entertainment life, but mobile providers run the equivalent of a predatory cartel for media.

For such a predatory scorer to be hoisting so many triples, Harden is legitimately bailing out defenses who no longer have to worry about his influx of driving forays to the basket.

For example: a predatory microorganism invaded a large prokaryote, probably an archaean, but the attack was neutralized, and the attacker took up residence and evolved into the first of the mitochondria; one of these chimeras later tried to swallow a photosynthesizing cyanobacterium, but the victim survived inside the attacker and the new combination became the ancestor of plants; and so on.