Having lost their income, water supply, main food source and doctors, the people of the village were simply sitting ducks. |
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Patrols outside the camp perimeter are designed to deter attacks and prevent the soldiers inside becoming little more than sitting ducks. |
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Drug companies are sitting ducks for governments to expropriate their property. |
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The police, instead of stopping the massacre, hurled tear-gas at the protestors converting them into sitting ducks. |
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I can see these people being potential sitting ducks, setting themselves up for this disease. |
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He lambasted the law's critics for alleging that limiting the use of force in making arrests would make police sitting ducks. |
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The children were like sitting ducks and had no way to protect themselves. |
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They'll be sitting ducks over there with just High Guards as protection! |
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If we do not protect and secure the area around it, our young men and women are going to be like sitting ducks. |
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As we sit here this evening, people are being shot like sitting ducks for the entire world to see. |
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Again, why does he just not admit that Canadians are sitting ducks because the government has repeatedly failed to take security seriously? |
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Under the circumstances, troops sent into a low intensity conflict area like that would be sitting ducks. |
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We're beaky or tigerish, doe-eyed, raven-haired, foxy, chicken-hearted, slow as a tortoise, meek as a dove, sheepish, dogged, old goats, goosey, sitting ducks or vultures. |
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We would be sitting ducks for whatever pathogens happen to wander in. |
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England's batsmen were nothing more than sitting ducks waiting to be picked off by these unerringly accurate marksmen. |
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As we walked deeper into the darkness, we both knew this could go sideways in a heartbeat. We were sitting ducks. Birds on a wire. Canaries in a coalmine. |
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Why should Jonathan, Ruth and all the others have to stay out there like sitting ducks as policemen and their smug reporter friends took pot shots at them? |
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