Sentences with phrase «as easy targets»

Across all prisons, Human Rights Watch found that prisoners with disabilities are viewed as easy targets and as a result are at serious risk of violence and abuse, including bullying and harassment, and verbal, physical, and sexual violence.

Unfortunately, many burglars see mobile homes as easy targets.

Yeah, so far my agent has been able to defang all the toxic boilerplate stuff — and it saddens and amazes me that the boilerplate bullshit is still in there, though I guess there's a business argument that those things are there as easy targets so you don't go after other more lucrative concerns.

Hogan populates his vision of stifling suburbia with a gallery of grotesques and clichés who are only present as easy targets to rebel against.

Some of the greatest pressure came on IDS at the Department for Work and Pensions, whose poor, disabled, unemployed and otherwise vulnerable clients were seen as easy targets for cuts.

As Nestle points out, most of us think that we choose food based on taste, cost and convenience; we resist thinking of ourselves as easy targets of marketing strategies.

there's nothing between Marquinhos varane and laporte so to call him the best wouldn't be right but yes I'd love him here kids got bags of potential and has a world class Ramos infront of him on the right sided cb spot at arsenal mertasacker should be seen as an easier target for him and he would have two French internations either side of him in debuchy and kocielny.

Not only is Ivanovic looking decidedly dodgy at present, he's now seen as an easy target for the oppositions» wingers.

Having already made # 18 billion of savings, he insists: «There is no such thing as an easy target in welfare... We have a responsibility to support people in difficulty, we can't run away from that.»»

In some countries, scholars are also subject to violence not specifically for their individual views or actions but simply because of their connection to a higher education institution, which may be viewed as an easy target with predictable schedules, «a proxy for state authority or... a symbol of a modern, education - based society,» the report says.

I was always the shortest in my class when I was growing up, and I was hurt by the rejection by other boys - no one wanting me on their sports team, getting beat up by bullies as an easy target, things like that.

«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.

Remember, if you are over 40, recently divorced, elderly, a widow, or disabled, you may be seen as an easier target.

Because they see you as an easier target.

Many local politicians have no idea how to deal with the REAL problems in their communities and see pit bulls and other dogs as an easy target to make it appear like they are doing something for their community.

And I constantly employ all the skills I learned as a Special Agent to make sure I'm not marked as an easy target by thieves or drunken men.

Moore added: «As cybercrime becomes more sophisticated and SMEs are perceived as easier targets, the GDPR is a timely opportunity for companies to ensure they put the right processes and security systems in place to future - proof their business.»

The public have a decisive role to play in influencing the government's policy decisions and all too often justice is regarded as an easy target by the government due to the public's lack of knowledge in the area.

When it comes to safety while traveling, your appearance and behavior are critical whether you stand out as an easy target or not.

Not exact matches

Under Mulligan, Target took symbolic yet practical steps, such as consolidating its top executives on the 26th floor of its headquarters to make it easier to talk to one another.

I'm probably not the target Chrome OS user because I often use full desktop apps and software that either I won't find in Google's Play Store, and the Android mobile apps available here simply aren't as fully featured or easy to use.

Riverwalk is an easy target because it is highly visible, has a large price tag, and is financed with a federal loan backed by a local motor fuel tax that, some argue, could be better used for purposes such as municipal schools.

Last year, the figure was 333,000, of which 184,000 came from the E.U. Even if you accept, as most do, that immigration has expanded the tax base and kept the price of both food and services down, the influx — for which there is no end in sight — is changing the face of the country too fast for the population to stomach, and the E.U.'s rules on free movement of labor are an easy target.

Other areas where Target will redouble its efforts this year in offer gifts under $ 15 meant to serve as easy, affordable gifts customers can get for people outside their closest circle, such as a teacher or a second cousin.

Horowitz has an easy solution for busy executives who'd like to position themselves as green experts: license the rights to one or both of his targeted monthly columns: Green And Profitable, which offers easy, inexpensive tips and profiles for businesses wanting to go green and attract green customers — perfect for B2B businesses reaching out to others who work in the green market — and Green And Practical, for businesses whose target market is primarily end - users or consumers.

Achieving a 10 % ROE with a 12 % capital ratio may be easier than achieving it with a 15 % capital ratio, so the targets should progressively increase as the capital ratio falls.

Investing is easy with what's known as a target date fund.

Since Canadians see our commitment to our target as credible, that makes it much easier for us to reach our mandated goal without needing big swings in output or interest rates.

Personally, I recommend exploring the idea as there are a lot of great Facebook advertising features, like its powerful ad targeting feature, worth taking advantage of that can certainly make it easier to get ahead.

Make it easier for Canadians to plug in by developing an EV - charging - infrastructure plan, informed by EV sales targets, to ensure drivers can charge up where they live, work and shop, as well as between major centres.

«The real headache is that it is easy to be the Fed when inflation is below target... a very important aspect as we go into this May meeting, is the tone of the debate changes completely as we get to 2 percent and beyond,» said Torsten Slok, an economist at Deutsche Bank.

I'm sure you've got the targets in another post but why not make it easy for all and list them here as well.

As Beijing's campaign to control content gathers pace, gaming giant Tencent, which delivered another set of strong quarterly results, is an easy target for censors.

Amid signs of stronger economic growth and a pick - up in inflation, as well as easier financial conditions, the Federal Open Market Committee, the policy arm of the U.S. central bank, is expected to raise its key federal funds rate in March by a quarter percentage point to a target range of 0.75 % to 1.00 %, says Ellen Zentner, Morgan Stanley's Chief U.S. Economist.

And when it wants an easier monetary policy and targets a lower federal funds rate, the Fed engages in the opposite course of action of buying government securities so as to introduce more money into the system.

The task should be easy as long as the Fed continues to reduce its bond - buying, which the hawks have advocated, and inflation is running well below the Fed's annual 2 % target.

Germany remains an easy target for the Ross / Lighthizer / Mnuchin / Navarro group as it is locked into a fragile situation.

As American culture turns increasingly and hostilely secular, they are easy targets: high - profile representatives of an institution that, allegedly, exemplifies repression and intolerance.

But as soon as I started to really struggle, I became an easy target, who couldn't push back.

Surrounded by Muslims and their religious practices — including the daily prayers, announced across the centers — Christians stick out as the exception, becoming easy targets for mockery and worse offenses.

Radical women and flamboyant homosexuals are easy (and ancient) targets, but neither undermines heterosexual marriage more than an array of other factors, such as financial instability, emotional dysfunction, unfair distribution of domestic labor, widespread divorce, interreligious differences and intercultural conflict.

As soon as their countries opened up the economy to the outside world, poor women and girls were targeted as the easiest means to make profit at the growing global sex markeAs soon as their countries opened up the economy to the outside world, poor women and girls were targeted as the easiest means to make profit at the growing global sex markeas their countries opened up the economy to the outside world, poor women and girls were targeted as the easiest means to make profit at the growing global sex markeas the easiest means to make profit at the growing global sex market.

So just as we want to look for a clear - cut, specific cause for the riots beyond the easy targets of contemporary parents, so also do we need to look beyond the easy target of contemporary Bishops.

It's an easier group to target, certainly, but a lazy activity as debates go.

«Richards helped turn what might once have been seen as a beleaguered public service agency into an easy target for the anti-institutional idealism of a younger generation of pro-lifers.»

An easy target but it may amuse some of you: a writer in The Daily Telegraph pretends to be Dan Brown thinking about his critics as his book Inferno appeared.

As with wheat, such allergies make soy an easy target for criticism.

The way you throw around potential exits and transfer targets as though it's so easy an idiot could do it, yet you're seriously asking if anyone here thinks he's worth more than 9mil??

Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale and Antoine Griezmann are all specifically mentioned in the report as being possible targets, but it's easy to see where Mourinho is coming from as there is certainly enough competition for places, versatility and quality in the options mentioned above.

Everton are going to counter attack us relentlessly when they again and will target our full backs as they arethe easiest part of the team to exploit.