Sentence examples for vulnerable to con from inspiring English sources
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal investigators have charged 530 people accused of defrauding more than 73,000 homeowners around the country who fell behind on mortgage payments, leaving them vulnerable to con artists offering to help them avoid foreclosure.
As we've been discussing, a wave of recent research finds that older people are more vulnerable to cons.
Despite the availability of these options, Haitians new to the U.S. and unable to speak English are vulnerable to predatory con artists.
The fact that any dynamic parameter is composed of a stimulus and a response [ 64] makes the process vulnerable to many con-founding factors, which limit the number of anesthetized patients in which these parameters can be used [ 56].
We're not that easy to con".
This climate of trust and humility is one reason that visitors fall in love with the country, but it may also make New Zealanders vulnerable to hustlers and con artists who do not play by the rules.
Mendelsohn again: "An immoderate yearning for stories that end satisfyingly what William Dean Howells once described to Edith Wharton as the American taste for 'a tragedy with a happy ending' makes us vulnerable to frauds and con men peddling uplift".
Winfrey's susceptibility suggests how an immoderate yearning for stories that end satisfyingly — what William Dean Howells once described to Edith Wharton as the American taste for "a tragedy with a happy ending" — makes us vulnerable to frauds and con men peddling pat uplift.
Everyone may have a song to sing, but the desire to sell it can leave the aspiring stars vulnerable to an old scam known as song sharking, in which they are conned into subsidizing their own worthless record deals.
Based on the data obtained under standard diet conditions, we predicted that Dom and Ind should be less vulnerable, and Sub more vulnerable, to HFD-induced obesity when compared to Con.
