So we are less vulnerable than we were, but we're still too vulnerable.
"We are always vulnerable because we always carry the favourite's tag and there is always extra pressure, " he said.
Some of those crises resonate today, in an age when we are reminded of how vulnerable we are to unimaginable catastrophe.
If our brains are wired together by electronics, will we be vulnerable to bugs?
We are vulnerable to placebos: "Hey -- I took the 30-day free sample and I feel sure my vision did improve!"
That means as soon as we are drawn into any such conflict, we are vulnerable to attack from another enemy, in fact inviting it.
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"The organization of the federal government, which dates to the 1930s or earlier, is part of the reason we are vulnerable, " says the report.
With an open heart we are vulnerable, as research professor Brene Brown describes in her popular Tedx talks on vulnerability and courage, with an open heart we connect.
"As immigrants who lack documents, we often accept being underpaid because we feel vulnerable, " said Manuel Aguilar, a 51-year-old who has washed cars since emigrating from El Salvador in 1994.
Linking our critical infrastructure to the Internet brings considerable benefits, but our daily reliance on this critical infrastructure means that we are vulnerable to disruptions in our ability to use it.
But our resilience is not infinite, and the question remains as to whether our moral resources and intellectual clarity have been degraded to the point that we are vulnerable as never before.
It is a reality that we are vulnerable.
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The more energy we produce at home, the less vulnerable we are to disruptions in politically unstable oil-exporting countries.
The focus upon human mortality rates associated with climate change serves to remind us that the far vaster constellation of life species upon which we depend is far more vulnerable than we are.
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But the President believes that we have to have balance, we have to -- and that we have to be sure that we protect the most vulnerable in this nation as we approach this problem.
One of the reasons we are so acutely vulnerable to EMP attack is because we largely stopped worrying about this phenomenon thirteen years ago.
And certainly, every year since he's been President, he has made a focus of the importance of investing in alternative energy technology, because that combination is the one that will build a foundation for energy security in the future, so that we are not as vulnerable to the kinds of price shocks that we get when oil climbs, as it is now.
When we place our most vulnerable aging parents in the care of others, we still need to check in and be sure that assisted living facilities are doing what they promise to do.
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How can we best protect vulnerable adults in some of the most deprived parts of England as all this change takes place?
"It just shows how vulnerable we are, " Araceli Garcia said.
"The only downside for us is if the message (to Sandusky) isn't 'heard' and acted upon, and we then become vulnerable for not having reported it, " Spanier purportedly writes.
That ecological embrace should recommend the reality that we are all vulnerable in an instant, and in no less a manner than all those hundreds-of-billions of other creatures who are at our mercy.
Yes, we can decipher DNA codes in a matter of days, but that is little consolation in the face of the stark reality that we are entirely vulnerable for all our bodily and cultural defences.
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"What we are looking for is those vulnerable spots, but we feel confident that given all of the local law enforcement working with the rail enforcement people that rail is a safe mode of travel, " he said.
"We are concerned that vulnerable families still living in temporary camps won't treat this storm as a serious threat after Tropical Storm Emily didn't hit Port-au-Prince as predicted, " warned World Vision's Meg Sattler in Port-au-Prince.
Gov. Palin is a tough, aggressive politician who showed the country Thursday night that she was not going to hereafter be defined as the weak and vulnerable person we saw in interview clips all week.
One of my priorities as head of the new department for Children, Schools and Families is to make sure we help the most vulnerable - including those whose childhood is being ruined by abuse or bullying.
The Australian dollar, we concluded, looked vulnerable.
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