These second-generation children are particularly vulnerable to negative influences, experiencing what Dr. Portes calls "downward assimilation".
Instead, Hughson argued that letting him go on bail, instead of a "gradual release", would make him "more vulnerable to negative influences".
One reason was that jettisoning it while the investigations continued might make the remaining Time Warner name more vulnerable to negative associations with the suspected fraud.
Moody's said Australia's public finance will be vulnerable to "negative shocks" for longer than the government thinks if the budget's projections for nominal growth prove too optimistic.
On the leafleting trail, she concedes that racist comments and gaffes by Ukip candidates have left her vulnerable to negative comments.
The results can leave people vulnerable to negative influences and be used to legitimise irrational hatred via an "us versus them" narrative.
The conventional wisdom was that Obama, as the newest of the candidates, had an image that was malleable and thus highly vulnerable to negative attacks.
First-year students were the most vulnerable to negative treatment by their fellow peers, with half of those diagnosed saying that they had been treated differently as a result.
When he went on vacation earlier this month, some Democrats suggested that Mr. Kerry was leaving himself vulnerable to negative portrayals in President Bush's television advertisements while Mr. Kerry was still relatively unknown to many voters, and the break for surgery presents a similar risk.
Besides, they will be extremely vulnerable to negative shocks in industrial productivity (e.g., an increase in the price of a non-modeled importable input).
The top 100 stocks in this index trade at 87 times trailing earnings, making this group extremely vulnerable to negative earnings surprises.
