Assertion: elephant | /r/HasProperty | protected
Facets:
value: to blows to their flanks
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: often
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Elephants are protected because they are on the endagered species list.
text: Elephants were often unarmoured and vulnerable to blows to their flanks, so Roman infantry armed with some sort of flaming object or with a stout line of pikes, such as Triarii, would often attempt to make the elephant turn to expose its flank to the infantry, making the elephant susceptible to a pike thrust or a skirmisher's javelin.