Sentence examples for largely defenceless from inspiring English sources
It relied on the abduction of largely defenceless villagers and refugees, including children, to provide labour and combatants.
(These weapons were used against largely defenceless Lebanese and even the Sunni Mufti of Lebanon when he pointedly made an appeal addressed to the Arab and Muslim world against the group).
Britain's role in arming the Zionist militias who fell like wolves on largely defenceless villagers, while suppressing the 1936 Palestinian national uprising, is infamous enough without the monarchy celebrating the consequences of Britain's perfidy.
Such viral drift has been a persistent problem, although less devastating than the "antigenic shift" that occasionally occurs, creating an entirely new strain that leaves much of the population largely defenceless.
The most recent parallel that I can think of in the Middle East, in terms of an attack on the civilians of a largely defenceless country, is Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait in 1990.
The smell often alerts predators to the largely defenceless kakapo.
Unpredictability is largely discomforting as it jeopardizes our sense of control on the world, making us feel defenceless.
He was completely defenceless.
His victims were defenceless.
