There, in the si- lent water, with the sense of sound completely re- moved, he'd felt peculiarly vulnerable, like a deaf person standing on a road.

Then laughed again, half choked, splaying both hands against her face in a peculiarly vulnerable, feminine gesture.

A climate treaty is peculiarly vulnerable to free riders.

We, your leaders, are in a peculiarly vulnerable position.

Iraq's reliance on oil revenues and its geographical situation make it peculiarly vulnerable to these sanctions.

The Joe Ellises of the world were peculiarly vulnerable.

The dark, clouded eyes followed him, distant puzzlement plain on a face peculiarly vulnerable.

This fact, naturalists say, is one reason the box turtle is peculiarly vulnerable to the pressures created by real-estate development.

But this need also made him peculiarly vulnerable to the universal temptation of political life - to tell people what they want to hear.

Or maybe the Corporation is moving to a new phase, a transition, and sees itself as peculiarly vulnerable while it's happening.