Word: defenselessness
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Even before Andrew Gobea was born, doctors knew his future would be clouded. Prenatal tests showed he had inherited a set of defective genes that would % leave him defenseless against infections. Had he been born 10 years earlier, he could have survived only in a sterile environment, as did David, the famous "Bubble Boy," who died after 12 years inside a sealed plastic enclosure. Andrew, however, has a chance to lead a normal life. In a new test of gene therapy, doctors at Childrens Hospital in Los Angeles, using blood extracted from his umbilical cord moments after he was born...
Such diabolical discursiveness coerces the reader into concluding that the contaminated cook knowingly placed the defenseless "general public" at risk for HIV infection simply by doing...
...Security Council, public sympathy was running in favor of more determined action, led by an impassioned plea from Lady Margaret Thatcher to exempt Bosnian Muslims from the arms embargo and allow them to acquire the means to defend themselves. "There is nothing moral or right about leaving a people defenseless," she fumed. "We cannot just let things go on like this. It is evil...
...recently been arrested for illegally carrying a hand gun for sell defense. "We have a saying on the street we'd rather the police catch us with it than the other guys catch us without it." In a country of criminals who disregard others right, honest citizens are left defenseless...
...traveled -- a pine-forested area radiating north, east and west from the Florida panhandle -- and it made him both notorious and revered. Antiabortion groups harassed him, listing his itinerary, phone numbers and addresses and issuing WANTED posters bearing his name or photograph or both. One of them concluded, "To defenseless unborn babies, Gunn is heavily armed and very dangerous...