Sentence examples for were less vulnerable to from inspiring English sources

This article was amended on 27 August 2013 to clarify that Astrid Wittmann said species with low resilience could be outcompeted by those that were less vulnerable to acidification, not more vulnerable.

This must mean that Machiavelli was interested in new technologies for war — though in fact he was not very interested in forts (he thought they were less vulnerable to siege than to inner rebellion).

Astrid Wittmann, co-author of the paper, said species with low resilience could be outcompeted by those that were less vulnerable to acidification, and that further studies were needed, particularly on plants and plankton, which were left out of this research.

— show the Hudson at the point when the city was just beginning to remake the West Side's waterfront, an area that held onto its original coast longer than the East River shore (the eastern tip of lower Manhattan was densely settled more quickly in part because the Lower East Side piers were less vulnerable to ice flows charging down the Hudson).

Relative to unmarried household heads, married heads were less vulnerable to poverty with higher average future consumption.

Hydrogeological analysis supported that the investigated aquifers were less vulnerable to rapid impacts due to long average transit times, ranging from 5 to 21 years.

It would also be less vulnerable to legal challenge.

Floating rates are less vulnerable to sudden speculative crises.

It is less costly, so brokers are less vulnerable to market swings.

The system will be designed to be less vulnerable to cyber- attacks.

Government is less vulnerable to risk, and better placed to build in recessions.