Sentences with phrase «made easy prey»

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.

Their «criminally stupid strategy» of removing central economic distinctions from the table has made them easy prey for their enemies: «[B] y dropping the class language that once distinguished them sharply from Republicans they have left themselves vulnerable to cultural wedge issues like guns and abortion and the rest whose hallucinatory appeal would ordinarily be far overshadowed by material concerns.»

And it's individualism (that «heart disease» that makes us apathetically indifferent to the fate of our fellow citizens), Tocqueville says, that makes us all easy prey for despots.

Christians in general make easy prey for Satan.

The problem, of course, is that school food operations nationwide have been allowed to slip into a state of perpetual poverty, making them easy prey for corporate vendors and food processors.

Animal welfare campaigners also claim that physiological evidence shows that fish removed from water experience stress and lose some of their waterproofing - making them easier prey and more prone to infection.

Flannery estimates that thousands live in the mountains, but he is concerned that their friendliness makes them easy prey for hunters.

Crab spiders that sit on flowers and reflect UV light could be attracting bees, making them easier prey

Though its plodding pace and soft flesh would seem to make it easy prey for a predator, it harbors a secret defense: a network of ultrathin cellulose fibers embedded in its skin.

The fish also did things that could lead to life - shortening events — like failing to take usual precautions around predators and making them easier prey.

A series of studies have previously shown that the parasite affects the brain of infected rats so that they lose fear of cats and even become attracted to cats» smell, making them an easy prey.

Large mammals made easier prey for humans.

He takes a dead - end job, trying to save enough money to make a demo tape, but the rapping isn't going well — he chokes in a local rap battle, making himself easy prey for the other rappers.

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.

That enhances their fluffy, cuddly image, but makes them easy prey for predators.

Light can stun you, so use your powers to avoid it and wreak havoc upon the investigators, spreading them to make easier preys.

Not exact matches

After all, it can be easy for an entrepreneur to fall prey to the whims of a difficult market or to make a series of mistakes that eventually leads to failure.

Failing to set your own password makes internet - connected devices easy prey for hackers.

Our diminished overall health makes us vulnerable to others who prey on easy targets.

When they have an opportunity they will certainly rise in rebellion, but inferiority in numbers and lack of arms make the Muslims an easy prey to the oppressors.

He also observes that it claims that man is essentially alone in the universe and that he is better off if he is made fully aware of this loneliness.5 However, Hartshorne enters the counterclaim that, if man believes that he really is all by himself in an unfriendly universe, then man will realize that he is not worthy of his own supreme devotion and will also become an easy prey for the race - worship and nation - worship that wreak havoc on mankind.6 He further charges that humanism suffers from the specific disease of «megalomania» or wishing to be God.7

And Tocqueville explains that the emptying out of the real contents of life through excessive individualism makes people easy prey for such despotism.

Especially when their people make it so easy for them, practically serving up their prey to them on a silver platter (like John the Baptist's head!).

It's so easy to fall prey to cynicism and apathy, to think that if you can make a good joke about something, that's enough.

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.

Results of the analysis may make it much easier for paleontologists to infer the prey preferences and feeding styles of ancient aquatic creatures, especially if they have similar skull proportions to modern - day predators.

Their numbers increased, possibly because radiation slowed their insect prey and made them easier to catch.

In their food - web modeling, Sahasrabudhe and Motter have used accepted ecological models of predator - prey relationships, but a more elaborate representation of an ecosystem would also include parasitism, seed dispersal, competition, mutualisms (in which species make life easier for each other), nutrient dynamics and more.

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.

Sometimes they slap their tail flukes on the surface, frightening their fishy prey so they school, making the fish easier to eat.

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.

Warmer temperatures make it easier for the whales to hunt because their prey is less likely to climb onto sea ice or hide below it to escape.

Our website makes it easier for them to narrow down their prey while they are on the prowl.

For example, the otherwise smart doctor or dentist is easy prey for the promoter selling cattle limited partnerships or securities in a company that makes technology for the petroleum industry.

The goal of many of these individuals is to sell you on the dream of fast riches, fancy cars, easy money, and so on — many prey on people who desperately want to make money and often use very slick and often dangerous (for you) techniques to sell you on their very expensive courses, bootcamps, mentoring, training, etc..

Experts believe dogs roll in stinky stuff to mask their own scent, making it easier to sneak up on prey.

Long necks, short legs, and long, floppy ears make it easy for a beagle to drop its head to the ground and sniff, which is good because beagles hunt prey by scent.

Their height made it easy for them to sight prey, like wolves and the Irish elk, over long distances.

It can make them hallucinate, so they could get hit by a car or become easy prey if they don't have their wits about them.

This concentration of nutritionally intact meat makes Orijen an easy way to offer your cat something close to their ancestral whole prey diet.

One theory is that dogs like to cover their own scent with icky odors to make it easier to surprise prey.

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.

This adaptation makes it easier for them to approach or concentrate prey depending on what they are hunting and the time of day.

While it would have been easy for the game to get mired down in the sort of contrived, one - sided decision making that so many story - driven titles fall prey to, it keeps things fresh and interesting by keeping its choices ambiguous.

Customised match making and skill level correction during game creation make it easy for players of all skill levels to enjoy online play without feeling intimidated by more experienced players preying on newbies.

«Dark magic has twisted the creatures of the forest and set them loose upon the Gilnean capital in Azeroth, but King Genn Greymane and his lycanthropic subjects won't make for easy 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!

The Futurist movement is easy prey for the kind of historical generalisation and polemical flourish that makes for a sellout exhibition.

They became easy prey for hunters with rifles, who could just shoot into the air and be sure to make a hit.

But making the effort to introduce yourself within the broader legal community will make marketing easier in the long run, and will ensure that you don't fall prey to the pitfalls of isolation.