"Maliki has run on a platform of improved security, and it's conceivable that if rockets land in the international zone, then it discredits his security platform and makes him vulnerable from a political standpoint as these negotiations are occurring".
One of the most important features of the agreement, from the standpoint of vulnerable nations, is its emphasis on adaptation rather than mitigation — the latter being irrelevant to countries that emit very little CO2 but already incur flooding, drought, and other symptoms of warming.
As of 2008, the Central American squirrel monkey is listed as "vulnerable" from a conservation standpoint by the IUCN.
The PBMR design would not be acceptable under current U.S. regulations because it does not require an expensive containment dome; this means that it is less expensive to build but is more vulnerable from a security standpoint.
"We are extraordinarily vulnerable from a force-protection standpoint as the cop on the beat," said one senior retired general, who voiced specific concern about the Iraqi capital.
And we're playing around, having a great time, but from a physical standpoint we're very vulnerable.
Both sides acknowledge that, from a human rights standpoint, sex workers are extremely vulnerable, and that social stigma and the illicit structure of sex work worsens their plight.
First, from a humanitarian standpoint, it is critical to support their health institutionally because, as a vulnerable minority group, they have many health problems and difficulties in the adaptation to their new lives.
In contrast, from other standpoints, such at that of caring that your reasoning not be vulnerable to criticism, a different result will be generated.
From an evolutionary standpoint, the study challenges the assumption that humans are programmed to nurture socially vulnerable members of their tribe for the survival of the species.
