Sentence examples for poor prey from inspiring English sources

As Elvis slides into criminality and despair, Abani, an exiled Nigerian who was arrested and tortured as a teenager, convincingly outlines a society where the poor prey on the extremely poor and violence is casual and ubiquitous.

In contrast low prey biomass reduced chances of larval survival and emerging adults were small in size, had poor prey consumption rates, low fecundity, egg fertility and short life span.

One female adjacent to the San Andres Mountains, for instance, was found with a large range of 215 km2 (83 sq mi), necessitated by poor prey abundance.

A few species that live in waters where the supply of food particles is very poor prey on crustaceans and other small animals.

Interestingly, regardless of breeding stage, both males and females increased the proportion of the trip foraging and both proxies of energy expenditure (total and mean VeDBA) from 2011 to 2012, presumably a year of poor prey availability.

While, Cape and northern gannets, from colonies of a similar size to Pope's Eye, have been found to forage 114 160 km from the colony (Grecian et al., 2012; Ludynia et al., 2012), it is expected that in years of presumably poor prey availability, gannets would forage to their maximum potential.

This ghastly scenario of poor preying on poor is, like the film's gray-green palette, profoundly depressing and entirely pitiless.

For over thirty years Republicans have pitted the middle class against the poor, preying on the frustrations and racial biases of average working people who can't get ahead no matter how hard they try.

In its current incarnation we learn that bad poor people prey on good rich people and that upper-class New Yorkers regularly used the word "ain't".

And its 220 million people are also, for the most part, poor and prey to the maladies affecting developing countries, not least an investment-starved economy, corruption and misgovernance.

At the centre of all this jolly nonsense is a promising premise about abolitionists fighting vampires in a culture wherein the slave trade turns people into raw meat, and in which the sight of rich white Southerners feasting upon their poor black prey ("Dinner is served!") is a fleetingly chilling high point.