Sentence examples for So infirm from inspiring English sources

These women were not elderly, but they were so infirm that many of them could not have managed it.

The committee president and chairman, U Aung Shwe, is 92, and so infirm that he has not visited party headquarters for months.

That strikes many people but not all as unfair.When granny has become so infirm that she can no longer make a cup of tea, she may be nudged into a care home.

Frances Crook, the chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform, said: "If someone is sentenced many decades after they committed a crime and where they are so infirm as to pose no continuing danger, then the courts should explore other options than simply imprisonment".

The Times correspondent continued, Rev. Mr. Waldo, who is so infirm as to be scarcely able to totter, but who, nevertheless, voted for Washington and Lincoln, was taken from the staging and brought upon the platform of the car, where he shook hands with Mr. Lincoln, and came very near being pushed off the car by the crowd of the people.

That afternoon, Parliament placed a motion to impeach him on the grounds that ranged from the comical to the serious: not only had he grown so infirm that he fell asleep at international meetings to the "horror, consternation, and shame of Zimbabweans," he had also abetted corruption by his favored G40 ministers.

Age should not be a get-out-of-jail-free card, but when prisoners are so old and infirm that they are not a threat to public safety, they should bereleased under supervision.

"Age should not be a get-out-of-jail-free card, but when prisoners are so old and infirm that they are not a threat to public safety, they should be released under supervision," said Jamie Fellner, the author of the study.

With harsh words for both the man, Ben-Ami Kadish, and the government, the judge, William H. Pauley III, said prison would "serve no purpose" for a man so old and infirm, but made clear that he had lingering questions about the government's approach to the case.

Because the Medical School's program sought to undo the effects of a racial caste system long-enduring in America, it represented a purpose of great social importance and should not be found Constitutionally infirm: so maintained Brennan (Bakke, at 363 [Brennan, dissenting]).

There are prisoners so old and infirm they rarely leave their cells.