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Whoever preyed upon her, they preyed upon a beautiful human being.
The man who preyed upon her had preyed upon many others.
"She endeared herself to the families, developed what would be a trusting relationship and preyed upon that relationship — and preyed upon these children," said Parrales.
They are not preyed upon by inmates at this facility.
You preyed upon a vulnerable girl and robbed her childhood.
Content farms will be remembered as businesses that preyed upon Millennials.
Likewise, banks have long both ignored and preyed upon poor populations.
The innocence of childhood was preyed upon by a very skilled predator!
Now Sullivan had evidence she wasn't the only person Mitchell preyed upon.
The organization was fueled by fear, and it preyed upon the fearful.
Maybe that's why the idea of being preyed upon doesn't really scare us.
However, she speculates Niantic omitted that to prevent children from being preyed upon.
Her affectionate but absent mother brought home men who preyed upon her children.
Since his campaign began, Trump has repeatedly preyed upon our worst fears and instincts.
It is likely no accident that Macy's sex trafficker preyed upon a foster child.
But the insecurity and "fear of missing out" he preyed upon in his consumers?
Government soldiers preyed upon them; revered Buddhist monks openly called them insects and snakes.
But prosecutors have said that he preyed upon and exploited other members of Nxivm.
They were evoking the stereotype of the oversexed black woman who preyed upon men.
She felt preyed upon, another indignity among many in navigating the culture of Yale.
"What was so cruel was that this population was being preyed upon," she said.
Sorry for you, Bill, but I'm far more sorry for the women you preyed upon.
I'm still curious, though, as to whether I'm the only one Father Bradel preyed upon.
The mostly stateless Rohingya have been sequestered and preyed upon by Myanmar's military for years.
Groups of men of Arab or North African descent preyed upon women out celebrating the holiday.
They say they are preyed upon by the anti-cult group simply because of their beliefs.
Greta replies that we have been preyed upon like animals; perhaps we should respond in kind.
One woman said she had been preyed upon by two teachers while she was a student.
At the end, the women Marchesa dressed are the same women Weinstein preyed upon, sometimes quite literally.
After the hearing, Herzer attorney Pierce O'Donnell said Redstone was being "preyed upon" by those around him.
Some of society's most vulnerable people have long been preyed upon by abusive workers in group homes.
They can do that by protecting their voters from legislation that allows them to be preyed upon.
And BOYS are being preyed upon as well, and it may be harder for them to speak out.
People who actually waited in line legally, became American citizens, they would be preyed upon, wouldn&apost they?
Sheep are also preyed upon by dogs, who may be responsible for many more sheep deaths than bears.
"The internet is just another place where sex sells and vulnerable people are preyed upon," she told WaPo.
The bullies ruling over us, were illiterate, oppressive, and preyed upon even our few small moments of joy.
African migrants who travel through the region on their long journey to Europe have also been preyed upon.
This is a fact: Sharp Objects shows us a community of preyed-upon women navigating the horrors of life.
I'm happy to hear that there are people in this world who have never been demeaned or preyed upon.
These animals that may have been preyed upon by Neanderthals, who then stashed the remains inside their cave dwelling.
Giving them a new perspective, like you have to see it from a community that's sort of preyed upon?
"The defendant preyed upon a young child while she was meant to be in his care," Mr. Montgomery said.
"Teachers are still being preyed upon by salespeople," said Dan Otter, founder of the advocacy and educational site 403bwise.
The idea of the preyed-upon consumer controlled by the capitalist monolith is highlighted in Yoshua Okon's Freedom Fries.
She's equally attentive to the environment, recycling wedding flowers and picking invasive species that have preyed upon Hawaii's ecosystem.
Some have set up encampments in Mexican border towns, where they're increasingly preyed upon by gangs and drug cartels.
Detective Dennis Luken thinks there are many other women out there that Meehan preyed upon who haven't come forward yet.
That ancient hominids may have preyed upon these oversized rhinos is not as outrageous a proposition as it may seem.
I do not have the luxury of leaving her at home and trust that she will not be preyed upon.
Sometimes it seems as if it's minor and stuff like that, or for people on lower levels being preyed upon.
The female characters also seem to often be preyed upon by the men and their victimization is made harrowingly real.
Every year since, Murphy has upped the ante with fascinating themes that have preyed upon some of our deepest fears.
He worked within the S.I.D. — Special Investigations Division — so he could prosecute crooked cops, people who preyed upon his community.
Gone too are the large crocodiles that may have preyed upon them in prehistoric times, as a new study suggests.
Luther Strange in the primary, then went on to lose to Jones amid accusations that he preyed upon teenage girls.
One editor of an Italian newspaper estimated that 90 percent of working people were being preyed upon by the Black Hand.
After Ellen describes the emotional scars of feeling preyed upon by men, he lunges in for a kiss without warning anyway.
Furthermore, the gold digger trope implies that wealthy people are always innocent targets, preyed upon by working and middle class people.
"Volkswagen preyed upon hard-working New Mexicans who want to protect the environment or save money with fuel efficiency," it added.
Emma is quickly preyed upon by various men and learns that the fashion-photography business and life itself can be cruel.
"I've known for over 20 years that he was a predator, that he preyed upon girls in the mall," she said.
They gathered for a group-therapy session with a therapist and shared how each had been preyed upon by Mr. Williams.
Here are some of the best/worst pranks that tricked people into believing they were real — and preyed upon people's wishful thinking.
Even when students are not being preyed upon by for-profit schools or predatory lenders, the whole seems flimsy or even fraudulent.
It's considered the first visual documentation of an opossum being preyed upon by a large mygalomorph spider, a group that includes tarantulas.
We can't allow this to continue because what it means is naturally vulnerable people are going to continue to be preyed upon.
Each of these geographical epicenters were preyed upon by their more powerful neighbors and formed powder kegs that set off major wars.
Dan Simmons turned that foundation into a novel, one in which the crew wound up being preyed upon by a supernatural creature.
This was common a decade ago, and resulted in Central American children being preyed upon in lawless, cartel-controlled Mexican border towns.
"One day, the clothes rebelled, and preyed upon us…" Brought to you, whether you wanted it or not, by Spanish studio 4FreaksFiction.
"While flirting might make the work environment more exciting, it can also make the recipient feel uncomfortable, or worse, preyed upon," House says.
All it takes is for one of those sites to have its own security flaw, and a bigger vulnerability can be preyed upon.
Some still harbor bitter memories of the war — and of an enemy who once preyed upon them but has suddenly become a neighbor.
Infamous gymnastics coach Dr. Larry Nassar preyed upon college athletes and Olympians, which cost his school, Michigan State, approximately $500 million in damages.
But for me, and the other women he has preyed upon, he is the person that comes to mind when we say #MeToo.
Small bony fishes, on the other hand, started to swarm the seas, much to the delight of the carcharhiniform sharks that preyed upon them.
Sebecosuchians (close relatives of notosuchians) like Baurusuchus preyed upon smaller dinos in the late Cretaceous of Brazil, patrolling the landscape like armored dire wolves.
"This was a despicable scheme that preyed upon people who put their trust in a phony," U.S. Attorney Robert Brewer said in a statement.
Saving the hide of a monster who preyed upon young women, who has a hard time coming up with any evidence to defend himself?
Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar said that, despite Nunez's death, the investigation would continue to determine whether the former officer preyed upon other victims.
"I'll tell you, sitting in rooms full of Oscar-winning actresses listening to how they've been preyed upon and assaulted is frightening," she says.
"I was preyed upon and then raped by a superior officer," McSally, 52, said during a Senate hearing on sexual assault in the military.
Children worldwide are more likely to be preyed upon by residents of their own homeland than foreign tourists seeking illicit sex, anti-trafficking experts say.
Wind Gap, to Adora, is a wonderful place that is being preyed upon by outliers like murderous truckers and a daughter who refuses to conform.
Now a successful entrepreneur and actress, Alba, 38, says she even changed her appearance to avoid attention from men who "preyed upon" her in Hollywood.
The perpetrators abused their position of power in profound ways — and in one case I was preyed upon and then raped by a superior officer.
To be clear, it seems that the destruction Schlichter is referring to is that of sexually abusive men, not the women that they preyed upon.
Authorities said Ortiz preyed upon vulnerable victims in communities he disliked -- people who struggled with drug or alcohol addiction or were involved in sex work.
The way she's always "petting Erik and fussing with his sweater," as Leslie's husband puts it, is preyed upon by a salacious and cynical public.
The incident left me acutely aware of the realities of being preyed upon just because you are physically smaller and less likely to protect yourself.
Could Weinstein have used the media to ensure the women he preyed upon were dragged over the coals, exposed for the "liars" they "obviously" were?
The Saints have defended such policies by claiming that they are designed to protect the cheerleaders, called the "Saintsations," from being preyed upon by the players.
Not that all customers are innocent; the insurance industry is preyed upon by fraudsters who are sometimes the same people who complain about the sector's trustworthiness.
In July, nearly 50 women accused the Olympic governing body of turning a blind eye while a coach preyed upon and habitually sexually abused young divers.
"Cummins preyed upon the child for months on end, nudging and molding her until her will to resist was conflicted and ultimately broken," the petition alleged.
Armed bandits preyed upon Cubans on the road, especially those who had not thought to first wire their life savings to relatives in the United States.
The foe who had annoyed him most was, of course, David Luiz, a man who bears considerable resemblance to a shaggy and easily preyed upon bison.
Its remains indicate that it lived in warm coastal waters and preyed upon small fish, using echolocation to help it forage in murky, sediment-filled waters.
"Americans should not have to go bankrupt to pursue higher education, and they should never be preyed upon by under-regulated loan servicing companies," Minhaj said.
Now that the world has been transfixed by our case, we must make sure not even one more young woman is preyed upon as I was.
These numbers are unacceptable -- veterans should be confident they can meet their financial obligations and not be preyed upon by companies who purport to serve them.
Vanity Fair was first to run an excerpt of the book, featuring Chang's reporting about "exclusive, drug-fueled, sex-laced parties" where female founders are preyed upon.
"The perpetrators abused their position of power in profound ways and in one case I was preyed upon and then raped by a superior officer," she said.
From what I'd heard about prison (and of course also from movies), I knew that my emotional neediness would be considered a vulnerability to be preyed upon.
A lawyer representing R. Kelly shunned recent comparisons between his client and the financier Jeffrey Epstein, both of whom face allegations that they preyed upon underage girls.
"This is a disturbing situation where she preyed upon the good nature of other people," Michael Noone, first assistant attorney for Chester County, told Philadelphia's CBS 3.
The result is that in many communities it is difficult for some men to find wives; women's rights groups said frustrated, unmarried men often preyed upon girls.
The disclosures came after the tech news site The Information reported that female entrepreneurs had been preyed upon by a venture capitalist, Justin Caldbeck of Binary Capital.
She said she is worried the situation in Reynosa could grow even worse, as migrants are either preyed upon by criminals or recruited to join their ranks.
In 2009, Mannatech struck a separate settlement with the Texas attorney general, who had accused the company of illegal marketing schemes that preyed upon the sick and unsuspecting.
Olson seems like a quintessentially Hitchcockian wrong man, a relative innocent sucked into a vortex of conspiracy and preyed upon by men with sinister agendas and dubious scruples.
But in the corporatization of death, the bereaved are preyed upon, and made to feel that their capacity to honor their dead goes only as deep as their pockets.
They say they were preyed upon by the creator of the show, John Kricfalusi, who admitted to having had a 16-year-old girlfriend when approached by BuzzFeed News.
Women seem to have a pretty good sense of when they're being wooed and when they're being preyed upon, despite how confusing some men claim to find that territory.
Doug Jones, a former prosecutor, knocked off Roy Moore, the Alabama Supreme Court chief justice whose Senate run was undone by accusations that he had preyed upon teenage girls.
" Even though the Altice's victims came forward and testified, Stern argues that societal norms "are not set up to support a male victim saying, 'A woman preyed upon me.
McSally said she was "preyed upon and raped by a superior officer" in a prepared statement during a Senate Armed Services subcommittee hearing on sexual assault in the military.
Prosecutors said Bathum preyed upon female patients, mostly in their 20s and early 30s, between 2014 and 2016 by plying them with drugs as they fought to overcome their addictions.
"Mexico and the United States will have to ensure the asylum seekers are not preyed upon by criminal gangs," said Lee Gelernt, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union.
Often from poor families, the women are preyed upon by traffickers who pay for their flights and offer false promises of a better life and well-paid jobs in Uruguay.
NASHUA, N.H. — The winner of a $560 million Powerball jackpot has yet to claim her prize, but her lawyers say she is already being preyed upon and is highly stressed.
"I believe that Trump University was a fraudulent scheme, and that it preyed upon the elderly and uneducated to separate them from their money," Mr. Schnackenberg wrote in his testimony.
And because of the movement, powerful men who'd preyed upon vulnerable women for decades were toppled overnight, and corporate giants were brought down as their vile behavior came to light.
Even as a child, Indira was preyed upon — sexually abused by her father, who is now in prison, and badly neglected by her mother, according to lawyers representing the families.
But the condition is exceedingly rare in the wild, since sharks with this trait are more visible to their prey and are highly likely to be preyed upon as young.
"I did not feel safe in my own home, felt that I was preyed upon and had the need to always look over my shoulder, which still continues," Ms. Patel said.
One of those women was Rosa Elida Castro, 26, a Salvadoran who said she was preyed upon by a gang because they assumed she had inherited money after her mother died.
That leaves about 183% of the island for descendants and the outsiders who've bought plots; the lawsuit characterizes the sales as "land grabs" that preyed upon older or vulnerable black residents.
A teenager struggling with his sexuality might be preyed upon — and a broken legal system where no one wants to do anything to protect him might cause him to become violent.
The father of missing 15-year-old Mary Catherine Elizabeth Thomas thinks his daughter was preyed upon by her former teacher and alleged abductor, Tad Cummins, while she was at school.
Community members say the patrols have long been necessary to keep the Jewish community from being preyed upon, especially during the decades when the city was afflicted with high crime rates.
The Kurds weren't fighting ISIS for the benefit of Americans, but rather for the benefit of their community, which was preyed upon by the organization as it swept across northeastern Syria.
In the early 20th century, police departments started sending out female employees to monitor dance halls and saloons, places where women might engage in prostitution or be preyed upon by men.
The idea that underprivileged young men and women are being preyed upon by a cabal of evil non-white people is deeply uncomfortable, and it's amazing the writers didn't see this problem.
When our deepest fears are preyed upon, it is easy to believe the promises of people who act like they know what they're talking about, to let fear and hatred dictate behavior.
With the otters gone, sea urchins, which the otters had preyed upon, were now free to gobble up a larger share of kelp — food that would otherwise have sustained fish and crabs.
These resources cover specific circumstances where people have historically been preyed upon, such as auditions and nude, intimate, and simulated sex scenes, as well as general guidance about your options and rights.
And Turkey received assurances that its vulnerable extremities would not be attacked; for an empire that for a century had been preyed upon like a carcass this was a new lease of life.
In each case, the lawyers plan to argue that the two-year statute of limitations does not apply to Tyndall because his alleged victims had no idea that they were being preyed upon.
What follows our introductory glimpse at Diana's creepiness is a perfect, not-so-subtle takedown of the way society as a whole treats women who have been preyed upon by their male superiors.
"Simply put, we're concerned that some patients are being preyed upon by unscrupulous actors touting treatments of plasma from young donors as cures and remedies," FDA head Scott Gottlieb said in a statement.
They were a major public relations problem for Trump, given damning evidence from documents and testimony from former students that the university was a fraudulent scam that deliberately preyed upon financially vulnerable victims.
It's a financially unregulated space where capital is king, where the winners win big, and where art workers are preyed upon through a normalized system of high debts and unpaid or poorly paid labor.
The strike came amid a series of lawsuits filed against Corinthian by the states of California and Massachusetts, and it provided a beacon for the thousands of others who had been similarly preyed upon.
Watched tells the story of two Muslim students preyed upon by an undercover NYPD officer, "Mel," who came to Brooklyn College (BC) to spy on Muslim and other political students from 2011 to 2015.
BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Children in the Dominican Republic are preyed upon by foreigners who visit the island to have sex with youngsters but few sex tourists are punished, a United Nations expert said.
And he worked on improving Phenix City's reputation, still damaged from midcentury, when it was a thriving hub of gambling, prostitution and crime that catered to — and preyed upon — the soldiers from Fort Benning.
It was just the latest of the abuse accusations against priests that have dogged the church around the globe for decades even as it has promised to punish predators and protect the preyed upon.
"As we do with every case, we will follow the facts of law wherever they may lead, and protect those who are preyed upon as well as the integrity of the process," she said.
"There's so much space for them to be able to take walks with the baby and their dogs and not feel like they are being preyed upon — that was the big thing," says the source.
If I am back in Iowa in another 25 years, I am pretty confident that many of the fears expressed by the public -- and being preyed upon by candidates -- will seem like a distant memory.
"The reputation of Father Lott should be reflected to show that he was a pure predator who preyed upon an innocent child by repeatedly sexually abusing that child over the course of years," he said.
"The perpetrators abused their position of power in profound ways, and in one case I was preyed upon and then raped by a superior officer," she said during the Senate Armed Services subcommittee last week.
" Despite the different work environments, the workers said they "share a common experience of being preyed upon by individuals who have the power to hire, fire, blacklist and otherwise threaten our economic, physical and emotional security.
Casting himself as a mentor, father figure, and friend to residents of his facilities, Bathum — a convicted felon with no background in health care — "preyed" upon young, vulnerable women battling drug addiction and alcoholism, prosecutors said.
Lawyers in New York and Miami who have represented the accused rapist's victims in the past and present say they've been approached by women who allege that Epstein preyed upon them, according to the Miami Herald.
"As a district attorney, I feel that we have an obligation to ensure that schools are safe learning environments and that our students are not preyed upon by those placed in positions of trust," he said.
One of the underlying truths of the wave of #MeToo stories is that when human beings are reduced to sex objects—whether they're directly preyed upon or merely undermined—it doesn't just cause them personal trauma.
She refuses to be touched, or to be comforted—she had stopped to pray when she was preyed upon—and questions how a benevolent God to which she has devoted her life could let this happen.
"ICE agents preyed upon vulnerable families using fear and lies to improperly enter homes — without cause — and detain people who were legally present in the U.S.," Lisa Graybill, SPLC's deputy legal director, said in a statement.
Experts say there is no shortage of factors contributing to the abuse, its cover-up and the lack of action inside the Vatican, including the medieval idea that holy men are preyed upon by seductive temptresses.
"You are an evil serial sexual predator who has preyed upon young men who came into the city centre wanting nothing more than a good night out with their friends," Goddard said, according to Sky News.
"We will not allow our young girls and young women to be preyed upon by predators or anyone who aims to brainwash and strip them of their human dignity and their right to be free," he added.
McSally, who was the first American women to fly in combat, revealed before the Senate Armed Services Committee that she was "preyed upon and raped by a superior officer" when she was serving in the Air Force.
THINGS WE DIDN'T TALK ABOUT WHEN I WAS A GIRL A Memoir By Jeannie Vanasco Facing the person who betrayed you, who preyed upon you, who haunts you: It's the stuff of vengeful daydreams, born of nightmares.
Does a world in which millions of refugees live in misery and squalor, preyed upon by criminal networks and human traffickers, and shut out of countries who claim to stand for rights and freedom, make us safer?
The problem that the Oklahoma decision highlights is that there is a "gap" in legislation protecting victims who are preyed upon by assailants prepared to exploit their impaired condition with respect to only certain types of criminal penetration.
At the start of his memoir, Sonnenfeld writes of a family member he calls Cousin Mike the Child Molester, who slept on his living room couch and preyed upon children Sonnenfeld knew, as well as the author himself.
When a troupe of young British actors arrive for a month to put on a production of "Candide," she will be sexually preyed upon by an older member of the group, a sickly sort of goat-footed satyr.
"Nationally our law enforcement agencies need to step up and acknowledge that our houses of worship are being preyed upon," said Eric L. Adams, the Brooklyn borough president and a retired captain of the New York Police Department.
They were preyed upon by marauding soldiers and insurgents, raped, their possessions looted, until they found a corner of this vast camp in which they could build a mud hut and receive just enough food rations to stay alive.
The filmmaker is an alumna of Charleston's Porter-Gaud, a onetime all-boys military academy that morphed into a co-ed high school where beloved teacher and coach Eddie Fischer was a sexual predator who preyed upon young boys.
And given the famous faces falling like rapey dominos on a daily basis, it should come as no shock that the top 10 Googled people of 2017 were all sexual predators, the women they preyed upon, or Kathy Griffin.
"Ultimately, the fact that the defendant preyed upon an intoxicated stranger on a college campus should not be viewed as a less serious crime, than if he were to assault a stranger in Downtown Palo Alto," Ms. Kianerci said.
Food delivery workers in New York City have long been preyed upon by muggers, but with the advent of app-based ordering, many thought they would be less of a target because they usually don't carry as much cash.
"Furthermore, Defendant [Esformes] and his co-conspirators preyed upon his beneficiaries addictions by providing them with narcotics so that the beneficiaries would remain in Esformes Network facilities, allowing the cycle of fraud [to] continue," prosecutors said in a court filing.
"Given the rise of the #BlackLivesMatter movement and the fact that minorities have been preyed upon by law enforcement (consciously or unconsciously), I think the museum could have done a better job of honoring that fact," wrote a Yelp reviewer.
More than two dozen women working in the technology industry spoke to the Times, following a report about a week ago in The Information about how venture capitalist Justin Caldbeck routinely preyed upon female entrepreneurs in his line of work.
We must stop ignoring the stories of black women whom Kelly allegedly targets and who regularly share traumatic stories of being sexually harassed and preyed upon from ages 10 and 11 on social media via hashtags like #YouOKSis and #FastTailedGirls.
Then it's the children who are preyed upon — first by a hungry lion, then by a carnival man who captures them, shackles them to a cage and makes them perform, writing sums and letters on a chalkboard for a gaping audience.
Sure, there were polls in the run-up to Tuesday's special election showing Jones with a ten-point lead, after allegations surfaced that his Republican opponent, the disgraced former judge Roy Moore, had molested and preyed upon teenage girls decades ago.
"The perpetrators abuse their position of power in profound ways, and in one case I was preyed upon and then raped by a superior officer," McSally, an Arizona Republican, said during a Senate hearing on sexual assault in the military.
But in a more active sense, by participating in #MeToo, by fighting back against harassment, by telling your story, you are standing up for the idea that women are autonomous human beings who are preyed upon and subordinated by men.
"Even though we work in very different environments, we share a common experience of being preyed upon by individuals who have the power to hire, fire, blacklist and otherwise threaten our economic, physical and emotional security," the open letter said.
"We believe that the benefits of modern technology should accrue to the people, especially those that are underserved, preyed upon and overcharged by our existing financial institutions," a spokesperson for the NYC-DSA's Debt and Finance Working Group told Motherboard.
Ava DuVernay's stark dramatization of the Exonerated Five's story was difficult, unpleasant television that nonetheless helped shift a national conversation, not just about the injustices suffered by its central figures, but the myriad ways the disenfranchised are preyed upon today.
One woman currently being sheltered by the Weinberg Center, a nonprofit in New York that helps abused seniors, lost her house in a "sweetheart scam" in which a stranger preyed upon her loneliness by developing a romantic relationship via online chats.
"As a black man, our communities were preyed upon and to be able to do my part and use my platform to get this story out is extremely important to me," Jordan told Reuters on the red carpet in Toronto.
Not all were in agreement that he was culpable for the failings of Caldbeck, who was revealed in an explosive report last week to have harassed or preyed upon numerous female founders who'd met with Caldbeck in a professional capacity over the years.
"Simply put, we're concerned that some patients are being preyed upon by unscrupulous actors touting treatments of plasma from young donors as cures and remedies," write FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb and Peter Marks, director of FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research in the warning.
" Rosen added that "the fact that the defendant preyed upon an intoxicated stranger on a college campus should not be viewed as less serious than if he assaulted an intoxicated stranger in downtown Palo Alto... Campus rape is no different than off-campus rape.
Kelly's Enterprise was not only engaged in music; as alleged, for two decades the enterprise at the direction of R. Kelly preyed upon young women and teenagers whose dreams of meeting a superstar, soon turned into a nightmare of rape, child pornography and forced labor.
That's because under the benignly named "Migration Protection Protocols" policy, they are being returned to some of Mexico's most dangerous cities, where they are being preyed upon by highly organized cartels that have found a lucrative new source of revenue in Trump's approach to migration.
"We need more people who are public school kids, who are public school parents who ride the subway every day and who know what it's like to be preyed upon by landlords, as my mother and I were when I was a kid," Nixon said.
Chinese nationalism, a remarkably recent creation, was born in the later part of the 19th century, near the midpoint of a 100-year period when China was preyed upon first by Western powers and then by Japan — what China now calls its Century of Humiliation.
Authorities say the couple ran a fraud scheme through two construction companies -- Rayne Construction Management Services and Colmyer & Sons – and preyed upon more than 20 victims of the storm who gave them money for home elevations, reconstruction and other repairs -- work that was never started or completed.
In recent years, many for-profit educational institutions that have received billions of dollars in federal aid, including the University of Phoenix, have been pummeled by criticisms that they preyed upon veterans and low-income students, saddling them with outsize student loan debt and subpar instruction.
For Roy Moore's accusers, who say they were preyed upon 40 years ago when they were 14 to 18 years old, hard evidence like this does not exist, and so they face the pain not only of coming forward, but also of being disbelieved and disparaged.
As the reporter who covered the story for the student newspaper, I saw firsthand the anguish and disruption that Mr. Walcott's actions caused to a young woman who had come to Harvard to study poetry and did not expect to be preyed upon in this way.
It's just one of the various complicated issues that undocumented immigrants — who have managed to work their way into society and want to secure some kind of legal status — have to navigate to stay in the US. That undocumented immigrants are preyed upon by unscrupulous people isn't new.
Unlike a notorious Venmo scam, which involves stealing physical goods by using Venmo to pay for them with stolen credit cards or hacked accounts (which the payments company would then reverse, leaving sellers with neither goods nor money), Zelle users are being preyed upon the other way around.
In response, regulators will shift their focus from alleging that lenders have preyed upon and targeted a population of borrowers with predatory marketing, products and lax underwriting standards, to alleging that the very same lenders have now restricted that same population of borrowers and their access to credit.
Ultimately, "Pose" advances the well-worn idea that family is what you make of it, with the various ballroom groups providing "homes to all the little boys and girls," as Elektra puts it, who would otherwise be preyed upon and vulnerable if forced to survive on the streets.
The importance of this novel — which won the French Prix Médicis Étranger award — lies in its horrific portrayals of refugees fleeing desperate situations, sometimes leaving home with a lifetime's possessions in a single plastic bag, only to find themselves in another inferno, preyed upon by unscrupulous smugglers and thugs.
I sat in the police office, recounting details of just that day—I was not asked if the molestation had taken place before or if this was just an isolated incident, and I never knew that I needed to report all the other times he preyed upon me.
Something bad is always coming for rabbits, of course — they are preyed-upon creatures, after all — but the destruction of their natural world forces them to confront their concept of mortality and to reassess established power structures, as well as the price they are willing to pay for peace.
Facebook users — and democratic societies — remain, by default, preyed upon by self-interested political interests thanks to Facebook's policies which are dressed up in a self-interested misappropriation of "free speech" as a cloak for its unfettered exploitation of individual attention as fuel for a propaganda-as-service business.
"Direct benefits could include cash payments and subsidized home mortgages similar to those that built substantial white middle-class wealth after World War II, but targeted to those excluded or preyed upon by predatory lending," Chuck Collins, an author and a program director at the Institute for Policy Studies, told CNN.
Daniel and Savilla Stoltzfus received the maximum possible penalty for, in the words of the judge, making their children live like "sex slaves" of Lee Kaplan, a 153-year-old former business associate who authorities have said preyed upon the family and convinced them he was a prophet of God.
According to the assistant prosecutor on the case, the teen was consistent in the way he preyed upon these young girls, all from Livingston County—"he manipulated, he threatened, he bullied, he extorted, and he intimidated" each of the girls, she wrote, and then "feigned remorsefulness" in order to assault them again.
We are in the process of making sure that all higher education in our state, and this ought to be done in the country, that our co-eds know exactly what the rules are, what the opportunities are, what the confidential policies are so that you are not vulnerable, at risk and can be preyed upon.
" Godbold, who was preyed upon by Weinstein in the early 1990s, described "the office tour that became an occasion to trap me in an empty meeting room, the begging for a massage, his hands on my shoulders as I attempted to beat a retreat… all while not wanting to alienate the most powerful man in Hollywood.
But when it comes down to it, these researchers—and the nonprofits, NGOs, and universities they work for—have primarily 'benefited' in the sense that they've been given access to research funds or data that that they should have had access to anyway, were the companies actually giving back to the democracy and public that they've preyed upon.
Of the dozen venues THUMP reached out to for comment about their safety measures, only the Drake Hotel responded, with general manager Shivani Marx saying that if they noticed someone being preyed upon by another patron, they would step in and get a taxi for the person being harassed, or put them up for the night if need be to make sure they have a safe place to sleep.
"If you can imagine it, it's probably happened," Wood said, adding, "I've been led down dark paths to realize that these things probably are still happening," While Wood said that he was lucky enough to have his mom around to protect him when he was a child actor, he knows that others have not been as lucky, mentioning that some have been "preyed upon" at parties by industry figures.
We are intimately familiar with idea that nothing is guaranteed—that you might put in all the work and still get passed over because of your gender; that you might take every reasonable safety precaution a human could and still find yourself preyed upon just for walking around as a woman; that you might follow all the doctor's orders and still suffer a rare pregnancy complication, crouching alone on the bathroom floor.
In addition to the horror standard of preyed upon teen characters — the beleaguered Addison, played by Gabrielle Haugh, and her love interest, Buddy, played by Chester Rushing — Stan Shaw (Fried Green Tomatoes) plays a vengeful sheriff trying to lead a team of those who've witnessed the Creeper's evil doings; Brandon Smith reprises his role from the first movie as a cop; and Gina Philips, Trish from the original film, appears toward the end, setting up a potential sequel.
Through a concerted effort that preyed upon black and white tensions, union busting, and offering low wages, in Memphis, the "income of unskilled workers, both white and black, average[d] less than half of the average in the rest of the country," according to Michael Honey, a labor and civil rights historian at the University of Washington Tacoma whose book Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign captures the history of the strike.
This is fitting as the letter is inspired by (and a response to) an open letter in November 2017 on behalf of 700,000 female farmworkers written by the Alianza Nacional de Campesinas, which Times Up refers to at the beginning of its letter: "To the members of Alianza and farmworker women across the country, we see you, we thank your and we acknowledge the heavy weight of our common experience of being preyed upon, harassed and exploited…" The Alianza letter was itself inspired by the early voices of the #MeToo movement.

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