Word: defenseless
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...Playboy encourages violence against women, presents women negatively and perpetuates the image of women as powerless and defenseless creatures," the SGA resolution read...
...argument is that Israel's responsibility consists in the fact that it is unleashed its rightwing surrogates on defenseless civilians under conditions which virtually guaranteed total abuse, and this was totally foresecuble by Israeli leaders...
...witnessed prior massacres of Palestinian civilians by Phalangists--it is impossible to conclude other than that the consequences of the Phalangists' entry into the camps were utterly predictable to the Israelis. The situation was analogous to that of a person unleashing a trained, vicious attack dog on a defenseless other--the injuries from which would be attributable to the "indirect responsibility" of the dog-owner only at the expense of credible notions of intentionality and responsibility. It is immaterial that the Israeli may have had a "legitimate" aim in "mopping up" (to use that morbid and dehumanizing expression) Palestinian resistance...
Save for the celluloid immortality enjoyed by a few of the residents here, they are all, of course, as defenseless against decline as any other aged flesh and mind: the tolerance is gone for noise, harsh light, the unexpected; a sidewalk curb is no more easily managed than an escarpment. But it is different in here. There isn't, for example, the palpable sadness that is so striking in other institutions where people are growing very old. It isn't happy all the time, exactly, but neither is the air so thick with loneliness, to say nothing...
Prior to Christmas vacation, a bat made a fluttering afternoon appearance in the Langdell Reading Room, before a Buildings and Grounds employee was summoned with a broom. Saturday evening, a bat once again descended upon defenseless students for approximately one hour before disappearing anonymously into the rafters...