The lower the existing in-state tuition, the more that students are sitting ducks for budget cutters.
There are more than enough potential embarrassments in the government to make unwitting ministers sitting ducks.
Auto showrooms in their current loud and oversized configuration are sitting ducks for Autoweb.com, Autobytel.com and the like.
"I got arrested in 'Sitting Ducks, '" when a cop on the Upper East Side spotted him defiling a mailbox.
Security is lax, at best, and most libraries are sitting ducks.
Moreover, the wealthy can be sitting ducks in their natural habitats, as I explained here in Beware Of Hedge Fund Marketers Flouting Country Club Rules.
By making activists out of little girls or even making them the poster-faces of well-intentioned campaigns do we run the risk of making an already vulnerable group of individuals sitting ducks for extremists?
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Like the US forces in Afghanistan today, during the 1990s, concerns about civilian casualties caused Israel's political leadership to constrain IDF actions in southern Lebanon in a manner that effectively transformed soldiers into sitting ducks.
The Bush administration, as well as European governments, is accused of offering insufficient support to the ISAF. (No Americans serve in the lightly armed force, because America feared that its men would be sitting ducks.) Moreover, America's own forces collaborate with some local warlords, much as they relied on the rather vicious Northern Alliance to help defeat the Taliban.
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