Sentences with phrase «vulnerable targets of»

«Prevention is worth a pound a cure,» said the Comptroller, noting that senior citizens were among the most vulnerable targets of the «billion dollar fraud industry.»

It is now possible to design drugs that go right to the vulnerable target of a disorder, thanks to the research produced from the Human Genome Project.

Not exact matches

Therein lies an issue deserving a much, much closer look: whether vulnerable Democrats, chiefly of the liberal persuasion, are targeted for destruction.

Sobolewski, who has been in the police about 14 years, said progress was being made but it was a difficult as traffickers often target the most vulnerable people who are lured with false promises of well - paid jobs.

«Near - Term target $ 25 Of all social media, they are most vulnerable to privacy regulation Wait until Senate finds out what Citron has published.»

The European Union's response to the threat of steel and aluminum tariffs also targeted areas where Republicans are vulnerable, threatening Harley - Davidson motorcycles, which are made in House Speaker Paul Ryan's home state of Wisconsin.

«Legacy systems running outdated software and vulnerable application elements are contributing to these companies being a prime target for compromise,» says Jay Kaplan, CEO of Synack, a security firm that sells subscription security software, and a former NSA senior cyber analyst.

But these measures are less attractive because these American targets, vulnerable as they are, all employ large numbers of workers in China.

There are an increasing number of scams perpetrated by professional thieves who often target vulnerable seniors.

«Russia, with its unwavering support for the regime, ultimately bears responsibility for these brutal attacks, targeting of countless civilians, and the suffocation of Syria's most vulnerable communities with chemical weapons.

She said she doesn't want any groups of students or young workers unintentionally left behind by whatever changes the Liberals ultimately decide upon, but suggested that future changes would look to target vulnerable populations like indigenous youth and new immigrants, who have a harder time accessing the job market.

Plaintiffs would go after easy targets and companies like Whitehaven Coal — which are already in the sights of climate activists — and other companies that resisted the need to change the way they do business to help slow man - made global warming or funded climate sceptics could be vulnerable.

Ethereum suffered large - scale security breaches last week after anonymous hackers targeted vulnerable wallets in the network, resulting in the loss of tens of millions of dollars...

The inquiry was welcomed by Jeff Morris, a financial planner who in 2013 exposed a culture of corruption and coverup in the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, the nation's largest bank, that targeted vulnerable customers.

Many of us are shocked and depressed by the current state of America — its hardness of heart to the most vulnerable; its contempt for the poor; its violence abroad and at home; its corrupt sexual morality; its increasing intolerance and persecutory zeal (with ourselves as targets); and so on.

«Nice was just full of holidaymakers - they were deliberately targeted for the families and the children being so vulnerable.

It seems to us these examples that we gave were illustrations of what were really egregious targeting of really valuable programs to the poorest and most vulnerable people in America.»

In reality they're a kind of Stealth bomber, specially designed to evade your psychological defenses, [squirming their way] inside our mind in spite of every barricade we may seek to erect, and then dropping a highly explosive charge targeted at the most vulnerable point of our spiritual [laziness].

This course will specifically target seafood alternatives as a challenge in creating texture alternatives (a key element in the pleasure of eating is texture) and in addressing the vulnerable status of marine ecosystems.

During the dialogue, Dr Gene Nisperos of the Health Alliance for Democracy raised his concern as the target of Golden Rice are members of the vulnerable population such as preschool children and lactating mothers.

The invaluable evidence it produced contributed to the ongoing funding and planning of support services for pregnant women & new families, including targeting services to the most vulnerable, strengthening evidence based practice & training of staff in all aspects of infant feeding.

The Food Bank's «Baby Supply Cupboard» targets one of the most vulnerable populations — infants and toddlers whose parents lack the resources to adequately provide for them.

Despite the safeguards it affords, they say, mothers in developing countries - the most vulnerable of mothers anywhere, the ones least able to afford formula milk, the ones whose babies most need the breast milk they could and should be getting for free - were being, and continue to be, targeted by corporate giants bent on carving out their share of a valuable market (Save the Children, which today publishes a report on the baby - milk industry, reckons that the total value of baby - milk and baby - food imports is worth almost # 16m a year in Bangladesh alone - but the potential, if more mothers were bottlefeeding, is a lot higher than that).

FPEEG, the All - Party Fuel Poverty and Energy Efficiency Group, is a coalition of cross party MPs and industry stakeholders committed to maintain awareness in Parliament of fuel poverty issues; to monitor and comment on progress against government's targets to eradicate fuel poverty; to advocate policies that deliver affordable warmth for vulnerable households with emphasis on improved domestic energy efficiency including effective thermal insulation alongside efficient and effective heating systems.

At 2:30 p.m., the state Child Welfare Coalition and the Citizens» Committee for Children of New York urge state lawmakers to reject state budget cuts targeted at vulnerable children, youth and families, third floor, outside state Senate Chambers, state Capitol, Albany.

These toys are a marketing ploy used by fast food restaurants to target children - the most vulnerable and impressionable members of our community.

In our target regions of Eastern and North - West, especially, we think that UKIP are highly - vulnerable to losing a seat to us.

Deputy leader Tom Watson will accuse gambling companies of deliberately targeting vulnerable people «driven by greed» in a speech at Labour's conference.

Among several «marginal» or vulnerable Senate Democrats expected to be targeted are Suffolk County Sen. Brian Foley and Buffalo Sen. William Stachowski, both of whom polls show are vulnerable.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) is targeting 10 vulnerable House Republicans ahead of the chamber's latest vote to repeal healthcare reform.

The capacity development program came in the heels of Boko Haram terrorists resort to attacking soft and vulnerable targets in North Eastern Nigeria.

For example last August, ahead of the House vote to repeal Obamacare, the DCCC went on the offensive with their «Drive for 25 ″ campaign which targeted vulnerable GOP lawmakers on healthcare ahead of the House vote.

Even if it doesn't get scuppered by officials in Europe, the policy's ultimate goal - finally achieving the Tory target of cutting immigration below 100,000 - seems to be as dogmatic as it is vulnerable.

Prisoners also targeted by # 10.7 m investment in researching how to stop spread of transmissions among vulnerable groups

A representative survey for CND, seen by the NS, shows that Labour's parliamentary candidates - from traditionally safe seats to unwinnable Conservative strongholds through to some of the most vulnerable of Labour's target seats - are overwhelmingly against maintaining the nuclear deterrent when it comes up for renewal.

Tenney, R - New Hartford, is among only 10 vulnerable Republicans targeted nationally by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee for a series of digital ads critical of the GOP repeal effort.

Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, who previously worked as a strategic organizer for 1199 SEIU, said that she knows the power of organizing and called Trump a «liar,» saying that the city is not going to normalize his agenda that targets vulnerable populations.

«Apparently, this is the reason the insurgents are striving to remain relevant by resorting to callous use of women and children to carry out suicide bomb attacks on soft and vulnerable targets,» he said.

Republican Sen. Bill Larkin is believed to be one of the more vulnerable targets for Democrats this year.

On security, Nigerians must be grateful to our gallant Armed Forces for rolling back the frontiers of Boko Haram's terrorism, defeating them and reducing them to cowardly attacks on soft and vulnerable targets.

«We are using a community - based targeting template of the World Bank and as we've explained, this is the mode of identifying the poorest of the poor and the most vulnerable.

This might be one of those head - fake situations where the GOP tries to lure the Democrats into spending to defend a relatively safe incumbent at the expense of more vulnerable targets.

Hall is increasingly looking like the most vulnerable of the House Democrats being targeted by the GOP.

Priorities USA, the main political action committee behind Clinton's 2016 campaign, is rolling out a series of digital ads in an early attempt to target potentially vulnerable members of the GOP ahead of the 2018 midterms elections.

The target in Vietnam that was vulnerable to nuclear strikes was the US, who had large assemblies of troops in nice neat targetable locations, not the Vietcong who the US was already effectively bombing in those few cases where we had a decent target to bomb.

This new statewide commitment to supportive housing should prioritize homeless people, and target high users of multiple systems, including vulnerable families and youth, survivors of domestic violence and those exiting institutions.

Indeed, targeting Republican lawmakers has become a key part of the mayor's strategy to ensure protections for vulnerable groups under the incoming Trump administration.

The new fund — «Warm and Well Cornwall» — targets residents who are in poor health or at risk of ill health, or with underlying health issues, or caring for a vulnerable person or worried about their home being cold or damp.

«Why we use this law to address the challenge and punish the criminals, we are also putting in place appropriate measures particularly in our schools and other vulnerable targets to prevent security breaches and it is important that we ensure that everything we do in respect of this anti-kidnapping law is in good faith and good spirit to eradicate the issue of kidnapping once and for all in the State.»

«Vulnerable groups, who were not the intended targets of the reforms and are not able to respond by moving house or finding a job, are suffering,» committee chair Anne Begg said.