vulnerable period in a sentence

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1. But Dr . Stephen F . Sundlof, director of the center for veterinary medicine at the FDA, said the agency was acting now because the nation is in a vulnerable period, with no new classes of antibiotics expected to come onto the market for several years.
2. "We have been through so many vulnerable periods where so many observers have buried the ( peace ) process . . . I think the process is strong enough to survive, " said Uri Savir, a senior Israeli foreign ministry official and chief negotiator at the talks.
3. The words were slightly different-- the Bush campaign is now rewriting part of Bush's stump speech every night-- but the theme was the same : Voting for a man with such a " lack of conviction " was too much of risk at a vulnerable period in the nation's history.
4. "We know there is a vulnerable period in the T-wave during which a relatively low stimulus " such as a sharp blow " can make the heart go into repetitive activity, " said Dr . Douglas Zipes of Indiana University Medical Center in Indianapolis, one of the nation's leading specialists in the heart's electrical activity.
5. But previous a personal history of depression is the greatest risk factor for subsequent depression, and " mid-life is a vulnerable period for recurrence of depression, " noted Dr . Diana L . Dell, an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N . C ., and a psychiatry resident at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.