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.   This scorpion had had prey of an entirely different nature in his sights.

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

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

6.   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.

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

8.   But that aspect of his former job in a customer business has fallen prey to his current job in a different customer business.

9.   But they also might have fallen prey to a puritanical turn in the tastes of American moviegoers.