Sentence examples for vulnerable to elements from inspiring English sources

Local residents in many of these regions carry a high genetic predisposition toward developing diabetes, which renders them particularly vulnerable to elements of the environment that contribute to obesity (4– 7).

Many tents to collapsed under the conditions, leaving occupiers' possessions vulnerable to the elements.

Now the industry's winter fortunes are also vulnerable to the elements.

Only so many matches can be played on the main stadium court, leaving the outside courts vulnerable to the elements.

America's peace, which seemed as concrete as this city itself, feels as fragile and vulnerable to the elements as a sukkah.

Left vulnerable to the elements and mainland looters, the city's walls now stand no more than a few feet high.

At peduncle elongation, the fourth of six stages in the bloom cycle, blossoms become vulnerable to the elements, and temperatures below 28 degrees can cause damage.

The library at Occupy Wall Street is more vulnerable to the elements because protesters there are not allowed to have tents.

The Australian Open is building a third retractable roof at Melbourne Park, but the French Open and United States Open remain, for now, roof-free and vulnerable to the elements.

"It was tough year for the whole railroad," said Marjorie Anders, a Metro-North spokeswoman, although she said that "statistically perhaps it was tougher on the New Haven line because the fleet is older and has a different design that made it more vulnerable to the elements".

In spite of criticism against the ineptitude of established authorities, and in spite of evidence that building locations and methods are vulnerable to the elements, it requires strong leadership to guide the community toward innovation that makes use of what can be learned from the disaster experience.