Sentence examples for a feeble start from inspiring English sources

They got off to a feeble start with "From the Manger to the Cross", made by Sidney Olcott in 1912 and shot in the Holy Land.

Autonomy has had a feeble start: central-government ministries have been reluctant to cede control to local Papuan authorities; where they have, money has been misspent, including by newly recruited Papuan bureaucrats struggling with responsibilities for which they lack skills.

This extraordinary film about a young student's obsession with a beautiful prostitute allowed Bergman to turn director, and after a feeble start - Crisis (1945), adapted from a Danish play - he wrote and/or directed 11 features before the enchanting Summer Interlude, which he regarded as his first truly personal film, and the misguided This Can't Happen Here (both 1950).

This extraordinary film about a young student's obsession with a beautiful prostitute allowed Bergman to turn director and after a feeble start - Crisis (1945), adapted from a Danish play - he wrote and/or directed eleven features before the enchanting Summer Interlude, which he was to regard as his first "independent" or truly personal film, and the misguided This Can't Happen Here, both in 1950.

The euro area's feeble start to the year (the GDPs of both Germany and Italy shrank in the first quarter) suggests that the single-currency zone will see an even bigger increase in its output gap than America has.

Under him it started to fall, reaching a feeble 10% in the Bush years.

Miho Sakata, a publicist who lives in apartment 18C, one floor down and one over from where the fire started, said she heard a feeble ringing as she was packing for a holiday trip home to Japan.

Hamels, he's got to be number one so far". For the third consecutive game, Washington received the kind of starting pitching necessary to counterbalance a feeble offense.

After a feeble September, in which he batted.229, Ramirez had an ignominious start to October.

It's the attempt at narrative drama that starts to look like a committee job, and a feeble one at that.

A feeble justification.