Sentence examples for perceived as vulnerable from inspiring English sources

Bullying involves attacking a particular victim who is perceived as vulnerable.

The report warned that bank deposits were already flowing out of countries perceived as vulnerable.

Labour politicians constantly attack him in part in retaliation for his own bare-knuckle methods, in part because he is perceived as vulnerable.

J.P. Morgan calculates that funds withdrew in August $39 billion from French banks, which are perceived as vulnerable in the euro zone sovereign debt crisis.

Although Sun has been one of the fastest growing and most profitable technology companies in recent years, it has been perceived as vulnerable to an onslaught of inexpensive servers running the Microsoft Corporation's Windows 2000 operating system or Linux.

Two other major casino companies, Park Place Entertainment Company and Harrah's Entertainment Company, then said they were considering making their own offers for Mr. Wynn's empire, which is perceived as vulnerable because its lavish new resorts in Las Vegas and Biloxi, Miss., have failed to meet financial expectations.

Other Chicago residents say the closing of some public schools has forced children to cross several gang lines on the way to class, igniting violence by gang members ready to attack those they perceive as vulnerable.

Applications and user-centric, emotional defense companies will emerge that let users build emotional fences around themselves during what they perceive as vulnerable states.

Yet, while Latin America is perceived as being as vulnerable as other emerging markets, it is also viewed as less economically fragile than in the past.

The higher proportion of younger women saying they had been harassed could reflect "power dynamics at play", with younger women perceived as more vulnerable by perpetrators, Bates said.

Dr. Harriet Ritvo, a historian at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has studied the relationship of people and domestic animals, said: "The habits of cats have always been perceived as less vulnerable to human control" than those of dogs.