1.   All these animals, and others, had fallen prey to the apprentice hunters.

2.   Now, once again, the thin reed of refugee protection has fallen prey to the winds of political expediency.

3.   Since then the replica castle has fallen prey to vandalism and decay.

4.   And as the Bush administration interviews candidates for his successor, even the selection process has fallen prey to ideological struggle.

5.   And it is not always so obvious that a government agency would manage to escape the conflicts and mistakes to which private firms have so often fallen prey.

6.   And so he has occasionally fallen prey to some of the vices that afflict our most talented writers -- gigantism, obscurantism and pomposity.

7.   At a time when American films have fallen prey to a mystifying case of bloat, such artistic economy is both a tonic and a reproach.

8.   Back in Redmond, Microsoft officials say, with evident frustration, that the company has fallen prey to an orchestrated smear campaign.

9.   But it is surprising beyond description that so many Americans seem to have fallen prey to this Clinton-era propaganda that tax cuts are bad.