Sentences with phrase «as easy prey»

Real estate professionals and police officers in small towns and big cities say criminals often see salespeople as easy prey.

They will protect you from the dangers of muggers and other criminals who might see a sole runner as easy prey.

And know that if you send money to non-legit collectors, you may not only be out of the payment — you may also be inviting them to continue harassing you if they view you as easy prey.

If I let myself be seen as easy prey from the beginning, I figured life here would be difficult.

The starving females seem to be treating the males as easy prey to gain nutritional benefits and potentially produce more eggs.

Fortunately for fish and scientist alike, neither the pinging of the transmitter nor the red color of the little plastic tag seems to mark the lingcod as easy prey.

Babies are highly susceptible to diseases, and hence, mosquitoes find them as an easy prey.

He only wants to «disrupt» transit because he sees it as easy prey.

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If Vice loses touch with its audience, or is seen as becoming more of a traditional CNN - style entity, with all the baggage that brings with it, then it could become easy prey for the next digital challenger.

In the Genesis account, Cain is worried that as a wanderer he'd be easy prey for an individual to kill him.

Others have seen this surrender as due mainly to the preoccupation of the divided churches with their fractional apprehension of Christian truth, which left each sect an easy prey to the encroachment of an aggressive secularism.

But a student of the history of that school of anti «art known as iconoclasm knows he must seek other game than the easy prey of nihilist art.

I'm starting to wonder if Hep is some Xtian poe who thinks of differing atheists as uncertain and therefore unsure and easy prey.

But, when you're getting ready for your little bundle of joy to join your family and you're trying to prepare as much as possible, it's easy to fall prey to the «buy all the things» syndrome.

Conley speculates that the reduced water levels this summer made the goldfish easier to prey upon and he too has noticed fewer goldfish as he skims the surface.

Sending a normal tweet as opposed to a direct message is a very easy thing to do and many of us have fallen prey to this over the years, me included.

These large frogs hide among the leaf litter on the rainforest floor, making it harder for predators to spot them and easier to snag unsuspecting passing prey such as spiders and lizards.

Kubodera's videos, which captured 14 attack behaviors, showed that as a squid approached, it sometimes emitted a short flash from photophores (light - producing organs) on the tips of its arms, perhaps in an effort to blind its prey or to illuminate it for easier capture.

As with many animals evolving in isolation from significant predators, the dodo was entirely fearless of people, and this, in combination with its flightlessness, made it easy prey.

As the timing of our seasons continues to change, the hares are likely to be caught out in the wrong color coats for longer and longer, making them easy to spot — and easy prey.

As they approach potential prey, the snails release a specialized insulin into the water, along with neurotoxins that inhibit sensory circuits, resulting in hypoglycemic, sensory - deprived fish that are easier to engulf with their large, distensible false mouths.

«I was afraid of all the prison stories being true, I didn't want to go to prison looking weak (as a bulky 150 lbs) and as an easy target to prey on.

Joining the site is as easy as entering any other online dating website, and the information provided just need to entice the prey to come to you so all the best as you head to your hunt.

Everyday at school he fights for survival, as he is easy prey amongst the endless hallways of fellow student predators.

This is the exact kind of easy grift scared people would fall prey to on a massive scale, and it doubles as an appealing gameplay facet.

The eduvultures are masquerading as saviors while preying on those that are the easiest to manipulate and exploit.

She has never been party to the purchase of a car without feeling that she had been taken, that she had foolishly paid too much, that her fiscal naivete is as obvious as a rash and makes her easy prey in the showroom jungles.

Just as cats 10,000 years ago were attracted to the easy, consistent food source that the first human settlements provided (see The Natural History of the Cat), feral cats today scavenge on the scraps that all human habitats inevitably produce.1 A study of a feral cat colony in Brooklyn found that the cats depended more on local garbage for food than on either prey or food provided by caregivers, and that the neighborhood produced enough garbage to feed three times more cats than actually lived in that area.2

Never offer a cat «free to a good home», as these cats are easy prey to these disturbed types of people.

Wild cats require whole prey (such as rats) to live happy, healthy lives, and the Conservators Center has experience in helping to transition previous pets to the dietary requirements that are ideal, which is certainly NOT as easy a task as it sounds.

If you're considering adopting a Beagle, then you'll need to put aside plenty of time for training, as while the dog breed is intelligent, they're not the easiest to train and have a very high prey - drive.

This dog breed has a great nose which allows them to track or smell the presence of prey, tenacity to keep chasing until it corners its prey, and a good voice that makes it easy to attract your attention as it corners or «trees» the prey.

These are easier compounds to break down in her system, as the prey has done most of the work already for her.

Food snobs like yourself can feel better that you are paying $ 60 a bag and as such you must love your dog so much more than all those who feed them cheap food, but as the article states your snobbery is easy prey for companies like Blue Buffalo.

As a result of all this «traffic,» the area is a diver's paradise where it is easy to find large schools of nurse sharks and rays on the hunt for prey.

Those who favored rushing around with an SMG or shotgun can still be successful, but also serve as surprisingly easy prey to a more calm and brutally calculating player armed with an assault rifle and a touch of patience.

Of course, things aren't as easy as they seem, as some zombie types can take damage as well as climb after their prey.

As an investigator, explore the area, cooperate with your partners, and make sure not to get lost, or you'll be easy prey for the creature!

Biologist report that the falcons feel comfortable in the city now, because their hunting for food is easier due to less trees in the city compared to the previous century, so the prey can't hide as easily.

They can also be the most naive, so they are the easiest to prey on for riders and clauses that can punish them as buyers and be profitable to the lender.