Sentences with phrase «easy pickings»

These people make easy pickings for me when I decide to challenge them based upon experience.

So after Apple is done with the big names out there, it can have a lot of easy pickings in China if it wants.

Until this public stance changes, teams will look at Juve as easy pickings to add talented players.

British royalty is such easy pickings for film.

Stoke won't trouble them too much at all and this should be relatively easy pickings for them.

A society filled with happy cooperators becomes easy pickings for the selfish, who can tip things back toward dog - eat - dog.

A make - shift Man United team made our so - called title contenders look like easy pickings and it will make a big fat dent in our confidence.

For example, until recently, cats were barely tolerated because they stole fish (no refrigeration, so easy pickings for felines).

The prices, while not easy pickings, are much better than Denver, and I think there's still room for some good appreciation.

There's no point in giving burglars easy pickings.

Even the most basic protection will discourage many hackers enough to make them go looking for easier pickings elsewhere.

Despite evidence of fewer easy pickings, Expedia shows why the deal boom still has some runway.

College endowments proved easy pickings for the sixteenth - century Crown and lay «reformers».

Mack was able to get to Taylor so fast that he hit Taylor's hand as he tried to deliver the football down field, forcing the ball up in the air and giving safety Nate Allen easy pickings.

But I doubt that Chile will have such easy pickings against Colombia with Ospina in goal.

West Brom will have nothing to play for by this point and should be easy pickings at the Emirates.

Why engage any risk unnecessarily if you know the fight will turn your way sooner than later, and you know the opponent can't keep that pace, and he'll be easy pickings once tired?

Derby has failed to win their last five league games and are currently lying 5th in the Championship, but having said that they will be well up for the visit of the Red Devils and will look to pile more pressure on van Gaal and his team, who are fairly easy pickings these days.

Specifically, they get a handle on crucial chemical bonds (known as 1,4 - beta - D - glycosidic linkages) whose removal makes the rest of the molecule easy pickings.

While there's some truth in it (e.g. even the most secure systems will be easy pickings if your password is 123), there are certain features that a Learning Management System just has to have to be secure.

Easy pickings here.

Insects, which happen to be protein - packed easy pickings for birds and other predators, are masters of mimicry and camouflage — and the lichen katydid is no exception.

It is politically easy pickings for the Government to target groups like migrants and prisoners.

That, according to Manky, makes home automation easy pickings for hackers and thieves.

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This absolutely begs for commentary, some of it in the category of easy pickings.

His public speaking role would make easy pickings of Mandelsons business team in the Commons, with Mandelson sitting in the Lords.

It may have been relatively easy pickings, the so - called «mall short.»

Grieving and aching for revenge, Magneto then becomes easy pickings for Apocalypse who is looking for strong mutants to fill the role of his Four Horsemen — recruits who essentially become slaves to do the «divine» work of their persuasive master.

These are still seats that on current national polling should fall to Labour, though given there is variation between the swing in different seats they are not such easy pickings as the ultra-marginals in Ashcroft's previous polls (in one of the seats polled — Pudsey — Ashcroft found Labour and the Conservatives equal).

In addition, the jokes that land at the feet of poor Amanda Seyfried while chucklesome just feel like easy pickings, as does one of the film's big cameos and a surprisingly dull Saturday Night Live sequence, arguably the film's low points.

A society filled with happy cooperators becomes easy pickings for the selfish, who can tip things back toward dog - eat - dog.

On the hunt for easy pickings, hackers are attacking these security - poor businesses, typically with indiscriminate, automated assaults that could be stopped by basic security tools and computer hygiene.

Their primary sales advantage over other financial products was higher advisor compensation, and these types of compensation differentials will be easy pickings for class - action suits.

As global currency markets no longer provide the easy pickings of the last decade, the yen carry trade is being wound down.

Some think there are fewer patsies at the poker table leading to a dearth of alpha opportunities while others assume it will be easy pickings for active investors as more people index.

As a result, easy pickings for conservative minded persons to play the dichotomy.

If the elephants pushed through the fence and got burned, they would attempt to rub the capsaicin off their trunks and then wander off for easier pickings.

Continuing with health as a theme, GPI also sponsored «Easy Pickings» in the Schools Starpack Award 2017.

At their best — unplayable... at their worst — easy pickings.

Dean Wade is so good, not sure why we have Hamdy guarding him... that's easy pickings for Wade.

Arsenal 2 - 0 Bolton â $ «Arsenal will be without Van Persie but I still think that Bolton, who in Archie Knox have the biggest loon of a caretaker manager ever, will be easy pickings.

It's not just good for bloggers and journalists in search of a easy pickings — it's great for us, because hunting the NCAA's inconsistencies is a shotgun safari in a sheep pasture.

The fightfigured to be easy pickings for Paul, but this time Downes won, although underbaffling circumstances.

One, the board which only plays attention to the profit margins and not the demands of a football club which would make them successful in every competition, the club is running a three card con job on the fans which are easy pickings to make money from and not willing to put in the work to make the club successful.