Watching him disheveled and obviously bristled, the messenger wondered who would fall prey to his rage. |
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Even if a delivery of a baby was successful, the mother could still fall prey to illness due to the lack of hygiene during childbirth. |
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Wood pigeons and songsters flee at its appearance, yet rarely do they fall prey to this large hawk. |
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Their chief predator is the mink, but while on land they also fall prey to foxes, coyotes and lynx as well as some of the larger avian predators. |
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Experts said the e-book, which netizens can download from the Internet, can easily fall prey to illegal duplication and distribution. |
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The latest victim to fall prey to a false chain mail campaign is the Coca-Cola Company. |
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They will fall prey to maddening and unpreventable guerrilla attacks rather than dying heroically during a lightning strike on Baghdad. |
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Alison usually wasn't so skittish, but people around her didn't often fall prey to killers bent on revenge. |
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Don't trust their bright shining lies, don't fall prey to their traducements and self-enamored pieties. |
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Usually early migrants, the first ouzel's song echoes round the hills and the first birds fall prey to merlins and peregrines. |
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Chickens, particularly broilers, fall prey to a similar condition called ascites. |
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Things get nasty as one by one the inhabitants of the house fall prey to the ever increasing hoard of pustular monstrosities. |
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We fall prey to it because we continue to attribute characteristics to groups while ignoring genuine gender differences. |
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All should take care not to fall prey to the manipulation behind the stunts, and the emotions generated by them. |
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They may fall prey to a nihilistic impulse and a counterproductive collectivistic ideology. |
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Credulous undergraduates fall prey to priestly performers who claim to be initiating them into the subterranean mysteries. |
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Albatrosses fall prey to longlines, baited hooks stretched for miles across the oceans by commercial fishing fleets. |
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Many fall prey to poachers who kill them for meat and steal eggs from the corpses to sell as aphrodisiacs. |
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Although I like to think of myself as a modern and liberated woman, I can't help but fall prey to the guidelines of social norms. |
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He spoke out against abusers of aid for the victims, ensuring that funds didn't fall prey to charity scams. |
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Hampshire police are launching a new campaign to cut down on the number of victims who fall prey to conmen and bogus callers. |
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Worse, the more successful a liar is, the more likely it is that he will also fall prey to his own falsehoods. |
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A misunderstanding about facility costs can lead corporations to fall prey to false economies. |
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Eels may, of course, fall prey to other predators. The large numbers of small eels are particularly vulnerable. |
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Not only does the work fall prey to purple prose and bad prose poetry on more than a few occasions, there are other moments when the work is just too mannered. |
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But as time passed, more people began to suffer from battle fatigue or to fall prey to historical revisionism. |
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If they are so unanchored, will they not fall prey to special-interest groups? |
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It is they who are forced to rely on pawnbrokers and soon fall prey to usurious interest rates. |
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In the case in point, data on market shares and clients' names could fall prey to industrial espionage, which can cause serious harm. |
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On the mainland they fall prey to both mammalian and avian predators. |
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They look tired, lack energy, fall prey to more short-term sicknesses and gain weight. |
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In the glow of unearned good repute, people are apt to fall prey to self-delusion, and think that they can get away with anything. |
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As a result, the likelihood is very high that the working poor could fall prey to internal or external shocks and slide into extreme poverty. |
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They do not want to fall prey to a Europe in thrall to judges and procedures. |
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Is it morally defensible that the animal kingdom should fall prey to the limitless greed of traders or the insatiable bloodlust of hunters? |
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We believe that those who fall prey to fraudsters and swindlers are often victimized just as much as the person who has been mugged in an alley. |
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Some of the elders there want their kids to succeed, but they fall prey to these bad influences. |
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If women do not want to fall prey to such men they should take the necessary precautions instead of forever blaming men. |
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The risk was that the country would once again fall prey to various warlords once the Taliban regime had been eliminated. |
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Let us not fall prey to short-sighted sanctions but, instead, stand by our economic and political cooperation. |
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We must not fall prey to the message that a better future is a luxury that is no longer possible. |
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Perhaps one difficulty in combining the two characteristics lies in the fact that we increasingly fall prey to a mania for doability. |
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Luckily there are a few simple precautions that individuals can take to ensure they don't fall prey to this type of fraud. |
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This spells disaster for the many bands that return from touring, find themselves with nothing left to say and fall prey to the sophomore slump. |
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Mergers within the networks market could cause one of Groupe SILICOMP's large suppliers to fall prey to one of its competitors. |
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But soon it will fall prey to the marauding demonic forces of evil. |
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But the incident made me realize how easy it is to fall prey to the lowest common denominator today. |
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Pansies are prone to fungal infections and young plants rot easily and calendulas can also fall prey to moulds, so I tend to plant these as seedlings too. |
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More regularly though, I fall prey to what I call 'tired days', when fatigue compromises my usually busy pace of life. |
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Easily manipulated or vulnerable, the reporter can fall prey to politicians avid for power. |
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Quiet and serious, he was an avid reader whose choice of reading material revealed fundamentalist tendencies which made him easily fall prey to a terrorist cell. |
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Because those who have not sufficiently informed themselves, risk infringing existing protection rights such as registered trade marks or patents of third parties or even themselves fall prey to free riders. |
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While financial institutions have put in place robust security measures, unfortunately there are always victims who fall prey to the perpetrators of such attacks. |
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In such an atmosphere, intercultural dialogue becomes harder and harder, which in turn makes them more likely to fall prey to populist and far-right politicians. |
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Year after year, our children fall prey to the siren that is heroin. |
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They simply fall prey to the machinations of war lords, criminal gangs and political manipulators, to the detriment of peace and stability in their countries. |
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As petty crimes and misdemeanors grow into more serious offenses, they eventually fall prey to organized crime boss Pat Kelly, played by Brian Goodman. |
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Many fall prey to the golden-backed uakaris that venture down from trees to eat them. |
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It is very easy to fall prey to a date rapist if you are attractive and alone in a bar in a new city. |
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The film, with its unconventional casting, doesn't fall prey to caricaturing India's Zoroastrians, known as Parsis, either. |
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Inexperienced teachers sometimes fall prey to fears that they do not know enough. |
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As a result, waterborne diseases run rampant and children, often weakened by malnutrition, fall prey to typhoid, cholera, intestinal worms and other illnesses and infections. |
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Washington solons fall prey to bloated self-esteem, listening to the endless echo of their own voices in the cathedral of the Sunday talk shows and carnival of cable. |
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Drenched in a thick basil pesto sauce, the ravioli with potatoes was cooked perfectly and did not fall prey to stodginess. |
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Programmes targeted at youngsters in their most formative years and at an age in which they are most vulnerable to fall prey to violently radical ideas, can have very fruitful outcomes. |
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When we focus our efforts prematurely at the apex of power, we are likely to fall prey to the way the powerful and their hired experts and professionals define the issues. |
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Even economists sometimes fall prey to this mercantilist error, despite economic analysis having debunked it long ago. |
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These women fall prey to the temptations of the good life promised by their prospective clients in the hope of amassing the basic necessities of life for a student. |
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Furthermore, the report also warns that young migrants regularly fall prey to criminal syndicates of smugglers and traffickers in human beings, leading to gross violations of human rights. |
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Without a certain deference to the beyond, human virtue would almost always degenerate into self-serving and short-sighted opportunism, would fall prey to vanity and egoistic isolation, to nothingness. |
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There are a series of intermediate factors that make some children more likely to fall prey to these diseases or medical conditions, and limit their chances of recovering from them. |
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We therefore express our concern at the dangerous situations that continue confront civilians in conflicts, where they fall prey to insecurity, violence and the violation of their human rights. |
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Be careful however not to use it in a room where you plan to spend your days. You could fall prey to its unstimulating and powerful sedative effects. |
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With little contacts with the main-stream society and with their families in shambles, they easily fall prey to delinquency, idleness and hopelessness. |
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Prevention is always the best medicine, and with a healthier, more active lifestyle you'll be less likely to fall prey to illnesses such as heart and cardiovascular diseases, and Type 2 Diabetes. |
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On such forays they often fall prey to hungry wolves. |
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Officers are concerned that more OAPs could fall prey to the con men. |
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