Secondly, the construction of new water retention basins for plateau livestock herds could prolong the animals' water supply for several weeks or even months in the dry season and could thus delay the travel to distant water sources and the concomitant vulnerability to assaults.
But critics like Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness, based in Washington, and Kate O'Beirne, editor of National Review, question women's physical capabilities, worry about their vulnerability to sexual assault by the enemy, and contend that their presence on battlefields disrupts unit cohesion.
It also sparked national conversation about the treatment of women and their vulnerability to sexual assaults.
EVEN as anxiety about jihadi terrorist threats has eased, thanks to the efforts of intelligence agencies and drone attacks' disruption of the militants' sanctuaries, fears over Western societies' vulnerability to cyber-assaults have grown.
First come the obvious ones: biological terror attacks, disruption by computer crime and vulnerability to anonymous assaults like the recent one on the American naval ship, USS Cole, at Aden.
Childhood assault is correlated with higher incidences of a wide array of harms and risky behaviors, including psychological and physical traumas, and increased vulnerability to secondary assaults.
(2015) studied the events and environmental features that have spatial influence and thus generate vulnerability to violence and assaults.
Many people who have child assaults have an increased vulnerability to adult sexual victimization.
For girls and women in particular, the sense of vulnerability to sexualized violence is particularly heightened in a culture in which abuse, sexual assault and rape are commonplace.
