All the same, Whitman said steps could be taken to make commercial shipping less vulnerable to piracy on the high seas.

VOA: standard.2009.04.13

Now,the reason we have children and women sleeping inside is because we consider them to be the most vulnerable."

VOA: standard.2009.09.08

Banks says younger viewers are more vulnerable. "When you hit your 50s and 60s, we think that concern is going to be reduced."

VOA: standard.2010.02.21

And that voice of impartial advocacy has to be on behalf of those who are most vulnerable and who do not have a voice."

VOA: standard.2009.09.06

She says a contribution of more than three million Euros from Italy will be used to provide winter kits, including heating fuel to vulnerable families.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

Like indigenous groups and poor communities around the world, Australia's Aborigines are considered to be more vulnerable to the H1N1 flu than other groups because they suffer higher rates of chronic disease.

VOA: standard.2009.07.24

But experts say they are encouraged that the virus seems to be hitting hardest among people of middle age, sparing the more vulnerable groups - the elderly and children under the age of five.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28