Sentence examples for vulnerable to direct from inspiring English sources

Today, as investigators and rescue crews sifted through rubble for clues and bodies, Colombians foresaw a swift shift in guerrilla tactics that may now make the upper classes vulnerable to direct attack.

Mountain grassland ecosystems are particularly vulnerable to direct climate impacts and to indirect climate change impacts through farmers' management adaptation.

Proposals were put forward to build a new harbour on the east side of the Rock, where ships would be less vulnerable to direct artillery fire from the mainland, but were abandoned due to the vast expense and only marginal gains in security.

However, the Bobcat broke down for one day, and could not lift high enough to place barriers to a 7-foot height, but were placed to just a 4-foot level, which would make it vulnerable to direct fire from guns or rockets which the attackers would exploit.

Compared to parental RR cells, RS cells were also more vulnerable to direct oxidative stress, but equally vulnerable to mitochondrial uncoupling and less vulnerable to protein kinase inhibition-induced apoptosis.

Until recently, Mirela herself was constantly vulnerable to direct risks – to try drugs or to get involved in trafficking.

Moreover, African elites still have other options – from aid, natural resource rents, and remittances – which discourage aggressive reforms and keep the middle class, the source of Tunisia's and Egypt's revolutions, small and vulnerable to politically directed favours.

They are obviously really sensitive and vulnerable to the direct and indirect impacts of climate-related disasters.

Often critical facilities themselves are dependent on such lifelines for operability, which makes them vulnerable to both direct impacts from a hazard event and indirect effects from lifeline disruption.

Neuronal cells expressing a SOD1 mutant frequently encountered in familial cases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis are more vulnerable to the direct action of the bacterial hemolysin pneumolysin and to the attack of activated immune cells than neuronal cells expressing wild-type SOD1.

In its 2014 global climate risk index (pdf), the advocacy group German Watch ranked Mongolia the eighth most vulnerable country to direct economic losses from weather-related events.