Sentences with phrase «of easy prey»

Coyotes will learn their outing schedule and take advantage of any opportunity of easy prey.

The dino co-existed with the largest alligator that ever lived, 40 - foot - long Deinosuchus, which it probably avoided in favor of easier prey.

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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.

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.

The father - and - son forensic accounting duo, who co-founded Accountability Research Corp. in Toronto, lay out an alarming picture of the Canadian investing landscape in a new book, Easy Prey Investors: Why Broken Safety Nets Threaten Your Wealth.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is taking it easy on payday lenders accused of preying on low - income workers.

It helps me keep my reins tight on greed and fear (to which it is so easy to fall prey to) so that i can take good care of my money.

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.

A father who welcomes home his prodigal son must be careful lest in his old age he become a Lear, easy prey to the flatteries of a Goneril or Regan, blind to the devotion of a Cordelia and unable until almost too late to find healing for his fantasies in her fidelity to the truth.

Just so you know, though, I won't be such an easy prey for the likes of you.

If you don't know the Word of God, and you don't know how to correctly handle the Word of God, you will be easy prey for the devil.

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.»

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.

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.

This was because the soot in the atmosphere from the burning of coal darkened the tree trunks where the moths would rest, rendering the white moths easy prey while the black moths remained well camouflaged.

Whether on the left or on the right, laypeople who do not understand that the Christian life requires hard thinking are easy prey to the enthusiasms and idolatries of class, ethnicity and mass culture.

Unless you have experienced the power and presence of God, you become an easy prey to Satan and he eventually deceive you.

It seems to me that they are all base in fears for you to have in order to be controlled and for me thats a freaky way to achieve the love of God, or the love of anybody; insecurity is a virtue for an easy prey where you can subdue victims trough the power you want to impose.

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

Some, mostly from abroad, have desperate poverty of everything but their God given talent and are easy prey for the sharks who attach themselves to top sportspeople.

The Rinne of the first 10 minutes of Game 3 was easy prey for the Penguins, and they couldn't take full advantage.

Despite rotating his squad, Conte's men even had an easy prey in the form of Qarabag who they demolished 6 - 0 in the UEFA Champions league last Tuesday.

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.

Thus, I was easy prey for NCB dogma and the promise of potential pain - free deliveries.

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.

Unfortunately sexual predators will prey on children online because it is an easy way for them to gain the trust of an unsuspecting child.

These experiences were great preparation for the third, the breech, because it would have been very easy to fall prey to the fear of breech that most of the medical community held at that time.

It is only because they are easy preys and they are not aware of these insects in their surroundings.

These lone wolves, these are disaffected people and ISIS preys on their mind and then tells them on their own to just go out and kill people and the easiest quickest way for them to kill a lot of people is with guns,» he said.

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.

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.

No laws or police leaves the residents easy prey for crime and opportunism, and the residents would spend an inordinate amount of their own time providing the services and protection from crime that a government normally provides.

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.

«It's easy to sympathize with the prey,» Laidre says, «but at the same time, there's a lot of ecological roles that that sort of action has.»

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.

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.

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.

Observing the behaviors of dangerous and cryptic predators like alligators is no easy task, so scientists used animal - borne cameras to monitor alligators capturing prey and their other activities.

Virulent strains of myxoma produce painful lesions: the rabbits eventually go blind and starve or are easy prey for foxes and cats.

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.

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.

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.

Being biased to one side would seem like a serious handicap: A toad that hopped to the left whenever it was startled by a predator, for instance, would be easy prey for an attacker that could anticipate which way it would go; the same holds for any other kind of ingrained behavioral imbalance.

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.

The researchers also found greater numbers of predators and scavengers under the lamps — like ground beetles, harvestmen and ants — because it may be easier to hunt for prey with the help of a spotlight.

A few may travel miles in search of new areas, but once away form the communal warning system, most are easy prey for predators.

«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.