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The talented young chess player is very bold. He deliberately lays himself open to attack, makes himself vulnerable and then checkmates his opponent when least expected.
We are never as vulnerable as when we love.
Tom is vulnerable.
We're too vulnerable.
Women are very vulnerable.
If he was vulnerable he was mortal, and if we could wound him we could kill him.
Mr Smith is vulnerable to this kind of criticism.
They were vulnerable.
I feel vulnerable.
Children are so vulnerable.
You're vulnerable right now.
Movie subtitles
You see, being pregnant to you made Brenda understandably vulnerable.
And, to a campaign on the back of very vulnerable people.
No matter who we are or what rung of The Ladder, we are vulnerable souls, but there's peace in that.
Save in one spot, where the linden leaf clung, is he vulnerable as other men!
That is my least vulnerable spot.
You can't afford to make yourself that vulnerable, not when you're out trying to save your country.
You're accused of relieving vulnerable women of unwelcome burdens.
I'm not young and vulnerable anymore, but my young husband was, and I.
And Lancelot is too vulnerable. to be out of reach of this mischief.
He sounded so vulnerable, so. so lost.
But even so, this-- this vulnerable mass of fears has dared to battle with a god and has not yet been defeated.
Is it your actual belief that this country is vulnerable to attack from the air?
To continue, its chest and abdomen were its only vulnerable areas.
And then we don't know whether they're vulnerable or not.
The very thing that makes you a hero is the very thing that makes you vulnerable to a man like me.
That's a vulnerable position, don't you think?
Now I don't care whether that bird came from outer space or Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, it's still made of flesh and blood of some sort and vulnerable to bullets and bombs.
Having many accomplices makes you vulnerable.
I'm happy he chose me because his life is hard. - And he's vulnerable.
Only that detectives are like everyone else - always trying to take advantage of a poor vulnerable girl.
I walked along cheerfully, feeling buoyant, precious, vulnerable.
But when you think you're safe is precisely when you're most vulnerable.
You want to live like boys but you're so different and more vulnerable.
Metal made as vulnerable as flesh.
I won't hurt you, but I'm vulnerable.
He was so vulnerable.
His passionate temperament made him particularly vulnerable to. the mishaps that befall the most confident of men.
You're worried about what might have happened. That makes you vulnerable.
The anger can make me vulnerable.
What weakness have I that is vulnerable to your thumb?
News and current affairs
Of course, we want to continue to find ways to make ourselves less vulnerable and terrorists more so.
Despite the high-born image Eban projected, he was an extremely vulnerable person: what some occasionally discerned as traits of vanity may have had their origins in his humble origins.
As the Stern report points out, as usual, the poor are the most vulnerable.
For them, given Israel's narrow and vulnerable geographic shape and continuing Arab enmity, controlling the West Bank and Gaza is not an ideological imperative, but is driven by security considerations.
So many economies are vulnerable to natural disasters - earthquakes, floods, typhoons, hurricanes, tsunamis - that adding a man-made disaster is all the more tragic.
However, it is the developing countries - and thus the world's poor - who are most vulnerable.
Perhaps the transmission mechanism would be through US banks, many of which remain vulnerable, owing to thin capitalization and huge portfolios of mortgages booked far above their market value.
It is because America has embraced a policy agenda in recent decades that has caused its economy to become wildly unequal, leaving the most vulnerable segments of society further and further behind.
Mounting debt also leaves the US vulnerable to the decisions of those who lend it money - or to the vagaries of the market.
It shows how vulnerable a modern city can be when its leaders lose their nerve.
Second, major US investors, such as pension fund managers, are realizing that US companies that fail to control their emissions may be vulnerable to financial losses in the future.
Putin's claim to great-power status and his great-power policies are structurally very vulnerable.
As a stand-alone entity, it was then vulnerable to market swings.
Advisory committees might have been vulnerable to occasional stacking of this kind in the past.
What, for example, will happen to a country as central and vulnerable as Egypt when hundred of thousands of Egyptians working in the Gulf are forced to return to their homeland as a result of the crisis in the oil-producing countries?
The upcoming climate negotiations ought to address the specific problems of Africa and similarly vulnerable poor parts of the world.
Second, adequate resources should be made available to poor and vulnerable regions and countries to enable them to adapt to climate change.
Climate change, which was largely brought about by the activities of developed countries, has made it difficult for poor and vulnerable countries to fight poverty.
Developed countries are thus morally obliged to pay partial compensation to poor and vulnerable countries and regions to cover part of the cost of the investments needed to adapt to climate change.
As a result, post-crisis economies are far more vulnerable to shocks and prone to relapses than might otherwise be the case.
Meanwhile, the international community collectively fails to protect vast populations of vulnerable migrants, such as the millions stranded by the recent conflicts in North Africa.
They are vulnerable to an Arab Spring (and a British summer) - and maybe to a US autumn that will focus not just on the Murdochs' business, but also on its interplay with politics.
America is vulnerable to social breakdown because it is a highly diverse society.
Both examples show that Europe, like the US, is vulnerable to the politics of division, as our societies become more ethnically diverse.
To be sure, Iran's alliances are vulnerable to erosion and, in the case of two staunch allies, Syria and Venezuela, to outright collapse.