Sentences with phrase «prey upon»

Yes, there are scoundrels out there in the real estate field; just the same as in other industries where there are those who prey upon the helpless, the hopeless, the aged, the infirm, the young who have no life experience to draw upon, and, even in some cases do bad business among their own peers.

Large firms should be avoided at all costs as they exist to prey upon their own clients» vulnerabilities.

Final message: Mortgage accelerators are worse than worthless, because they are designed by predators to prey upon the financially illiterate.

«Oh, so you prey upon the emotions of women so we'll buy your safety product,» she said while rolling her eyes.

If the professional chooses to prey upon the consumer's ignorance, the professional can cut all sorts of corners and often can get away with it.

Do we want to prey upon the consumer's ignorance for our own short - term gain (win - lose), or do we want to put the consumer's interests ahead of our own, thereby building long - term, win - win?

In real estate, consumers are vulnerable to the unscrupulous salesperson who chooses to prey upon their ignorance.

NAR will continue to work with Senate to ensure that Congress enacts common sense patent litigation reform that puts an end to the abusive tactics of patent trolls who prey upon our members

Sir, RECO & OREA, are designed to help Realtors to protect themselves from BLOOD SUCKING LAWYERS that would prey upon them because we have something we pay dearly for, which is called ERRORS & OMMISSIONS INSURANCE.

The other side of the coin, of course, is that some gadgets can prey upon the fears of first - time parents.

«No matter how many sexual predators are prosecuted, they will continue to prey upon children living within the broken foster care system,» said Lien.

Some «full service» job search firms also prey upon the unemployed.

NPEs are charged with exacerbating both of these issues by using the threat of (or actual) patent litigation to prey upon companies who may not have the wherewithal, money, or desire to fight a patent infringement lawsuit.

Additionally, there are MANY companies that know most folks don't understand the different types of life insurance, and they design their marketing to prey upon this fact (we show you an example below).

The West Coast Legal Education and Action Fund's [LEAF] position paper captures this vividly: «[A] busive sponsors prey upon the precarious immigration status of their partners to control their behaviour and stop them from reporting the violence or leaving the relationship.»

To some extent I believe it is a situation where the courts need to be more cognizant of the significant number of predators in our society who prey upon the infirm and vulnerable.

Firms that market themselves as fathers rights lawyers, in our opinion, use that label as a marketing tool to prey upon the fears that fathers have in order to encourage fathers into hiring them.

It's not funny, of course, because the victims were scammed out of their life savings, and we can all agree that predators who prey upon people when they're already down on the mat are the scummiest of the pond scum.

How about if we start by growing up, and start by ceasing to exacerbate and prey upon people's quite honestly irresponsible and unfounded fears.

it is NOT ROMANTIC and DEFINITELY NOT DESIRABLE... it destroys your self esteem to where even IF people wanted prey upon me?

The game's old - school stylings leave players» minds prone to wander, providing a uniquely engrossing horror experience that relies on imagination and immersion to convey an overwhelming sense of dread and prey upon the player's own deepest fears.

Bandits prey upon unfortunate merchants along the road and pirates patrol the seas around the Skellige islands.

«These kinds of lootboxes and microtransactions are explicitly designed to prey upon and exploit human psychology in the same way casino games are so designed,» he said in a Reddit post following up on the announcement video.

In order to survive, you will have to build a lethal fleet, prey upon lucrative trade routes, and ally with other pirates to join the endless struggle for supremacy.

Bride of the New Moon is set hundreds of years after the cataclysmic events of the original game: The Nightlord was vanquished but the infectious remnants of his blue blood continue to plague the world and turn unlucky beings into fiends, the enemies of the game that prey upon humanity whenever darkness falls.

I mean, you now have developers announcing whether a game will have loot boxes before the game's been announced, and designers re-examining the ethics of including types of microtransactions that may prey upon people unable to control impulses.

These creatures are not harmful, so players just need to find and prey upon them.

In order to survive, you will have to build a lethal fleet, prey upon lucrative trade routes, and ally with other pirates in your endless struggle for supremacy.

This was the reason why they are considered pests by farmers because they prey upon poultry.

Applying the ESA prohibition on the take of an endangered species, including habitat degradation, to the issue of free - roaming cats, it would appear that under the right circumstances, aa court could find that cats degrade the habitat of endangered or threatened predator species by killing the prey upon which those species depend for food.

Complete removal of the cats will result in additional issues, such as a population boom in rabbits, rats, mice, pigeons, and other pest species which compete with, or prey upon, desirable wildlife species.

In the study, researchers were trying to determine the relationship between brain size and the number of neurons a species has, and to confirm the hypothesis that carnivores have more neurons than the herbivores that they prey upon.

Cats are not native to North America and wildlife has never evolved to cope with the millions of cats around the country that prey upon them.

They prey upon people's impulse to buy something immediately that they want, and do little to screen prospective homes - often resulting in dogs with bad health or behavior that end up in rescue.

Wild dogs usually eat the stomach content and organ meat from the animals they prey upon.

Some of these animals scare away or prey upon wildlife — such as birds — or frighten small children.

So the diet they would eat, if they were running around outside eating the animals that they prey upon, would be a very high - protein, very low - carbohydrate diet.

Dingoes are known to prey upon kangaroos, emus and feral goats and it's thought they also deter foxes and feral cats — the two introduced predators blamed for causing massive declines in animals such as bilbies, bandicoots and bettongs across Australia.

Some fraudulent email scammers prey upon the kindheartedness of dog lovers who want to offer homes to puppies and their parents.

I suggest that the modern 401 (k) plan is a scam facilitated by those who financially prey upon the poor and middle class to divest you of your wealth in much the same way as the idea to deduct income taxes from your paycheck.

They prey upon those who want more money, and are weak in their knowledge of how the markets work.

Do not let them prey upon your weaknesses.

Now, let's look at the darker side of self - publishing for a moment — the wolves out to prey upon unsuspecting authors.

Let us journey backwards through the misty veils of time to a far off, foreign place: the demon - plagued realms of Japan during the Sengoku Period, where the samurai prey upon the peasants, the ninja prey upon the samurai, and demons and devils prey upon everyone.

Unfortunately, there are many unethical publishers that prey upon the ignorant and the emotional desire for success.

Mpayipheli goes on a one - man rampage, seeking out and destroying those who would prey upon children, particularly those who are for one reason or another untouchable by the law.

And of course, lurking around the sewers of the industry, vanity presses are always eager to prey upon the uninformed author.

It is a shady alliance forged among Book Designers and various types of Editors, who prey upon, often desperate, writers trying to get their first work in print.

Based on The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, the raunchy tale was written and directed by Jeff Baena, as Aubrey Plaza, Alison Brie and Kate Micucci in turn play foul - mouthed nuns who can't help but prey upon the hired hand that is Dave Franco.

Reuniting with director Bill Condon (Gods and Monsters, Kinsey), McKellen brings the world's greatest detective to life in a somewhat sedate mystery, more of an examination of the ravages of old age and senility, and the guilt that can prey upon those who have perhaps been a bit too insensitive.