Sentence examples for * its infirmity from inspiring English sources

A machine is running down, a great machine, the greatest machine that has ever been created — the war machine, by which mankind, in spite of its infirmity of purpose and its frequent desire for death, has defended its life.

Can you make old age, with all its infirmities and death around the corner funny?

Does sickness, with its attendant infirmity, its gloomy shadow over the intellectual, represent feminist defeat?

Yet consider what the establishment might, in its current infirmity, produce for an inaugural presidency.

For we fail to see how such a tax loses its constitutional infirmity when exacted from those who confine themselves to their own village or town and spread their religious beliefs from door to door or on the street.

Democracy has its own infirmities, of course, but it provides an important safety valve for popular dissent.

Respondents' contentions now are: (1) The Postmaster General lacked power to modify his original fraud order, and hence that order remains subject to any and all of its original infirmities.

The Arab world must confront its historical demons and tackle its infirmities and its contradictions: when it turns to the task, the awakening will truly have begun.

And its language on infirmity, asking householders if they were "lunatic, imbecile or feeble-minded", would be unlikely to pass muster with today's disability campaigners.

The contract will carry with it the infirmity of the subject-matter". If the Contract Clause is to retain any meaning at all, however, it must be understood to impose some limits upon the power of a State o abridge existing contractual relationships, even in the exercise of its otherwise legitimate police power.

The court's "infirmity" shows that its legitimacy in the public's eyes "cannot be taken for granted," he writes.