The lonely hearts are preyed on in chat rooms, dating sites and social networking sites.
Money problems also preyed on the mind of the 18 year old from Sherbourne, Dorset.
Calculating thieves preyed on cars owned by fans who they knew would spend several hours away after parking their vehicles.
In most of these cases, aggressors preyed on women simply because they could.
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Rwandan Hutus remained in the jungles of eastern Congo, where they preyed on local residents and participated in Hutu militias.
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DMS. Some let it go only when their cells are damaged as a result of being preyed on by zooplankton.
He was in part the cause and in part the effect of the state's rotting-away, and he preyed on its decay.
In an extreme example of a gold digger, Cher Thompson of Manhattan preyed on a nearly deaf, 90-year-old widower with dementia.
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They preyed on England's reticence to attack, bowled tightly and waited patiently.
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For older people, Mr Surl has said he will ensure they are "not preyed on", feel isolated and unable to seek help.
The bottom line is they preyed on people who were trying to build better lives for their families in these tough economic times.
Det Supt Paul Withers said Curry, who also lives in Dyson Street, befriended Mr Proctor and "preyed on his vulnerability" in order to steal money from him.
The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons has called for a ban on advertising for cosmetic surgery and said that it preyed on women in a vulnerable state, such as following a divorce.
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Bernard Madoff notoriously preyed on the Jewish community.
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"This defendant preyed on the most vulnerable of victims - girls and young women hoping for a better life - through promises of jobs or marriage, " US Attorney Sally Quillian Yates said in a statement.
The latest clashes come just as the United Nations is reinforcing its peacekeeping mission in the country, with a 3, 000-strong intervention force to take on the rebels, who have preyed on the region since the late 1990s.
Savile used his celebrity to "hide in plain sight" as he opportunistically preyed on the children and young people with whom he came into contact as he presented BBC children's show "Jim'll Fix It" and music show "Top of the Pops, " the report said.
"These defendants, two morally depraved individuals, preyed on a physically and mentally ill 101-year-old woman to steal millions of dollars -- dollars that she had intended to go to help the lives of ordinary New Yorkers, " Seidemann said, echoing his closing argument to the jury.
You'll have to read the Times profile for the full story, but whether or not NTP acted ethically (or illegally), or preyed on Goodfellow's disdain for patents or his free-market attitude isn't exactly making the bad taste in our mouths from the settlement taste any better.
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The other mistake that has preyed on my mind has to do with the VW Jetta, which I crucified in a column a few months ago as being de-contented, dumbed-down and sadly cheapened Americanized, as part of Volkswagen of America's master plan to increase sales by lowering the brand's price point.
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Colombians have resumed travel on roads where kidnappers formerly preyed.
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