Sentence examples similar to ailing down from inspiring English sources

Unlikesome who only preach or publish, she made a point of wedding ideals toactions – frequently, for example, taking food, blankets and other supplies and back-up at expense she could ill afford to ailing, down-and-out and homeless citizens.

Many critics suspect hedge funds of hunting in packs: conspiring to bring down ailing companies or currencies, or artificially inflating the price of commodities.

Spain has taken €40bn from eurozone rescue funds to clean out ailing banks weighed down by toxic real estate left-over from a burst housing bubble.

Most cities, looking at shrinking budgets, cannot afford to subsidize or knock down ailing malls, and healthy retailers that are expanding — like H&M and Nordstrom Rack — generally will not open at depressed locations.

For example, European leaders have not settled on a way to wind down ailing banks without relying on taxpayers, and they are a long way off from creating a deposit insurance fund for the Continent.

Yet the ECB only wants the job if it gets new powers, and access to funds, to restructure and wind down ailing banks, all backed by a credible system to guarantee bank deposits.

Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty On April 14 1988, Kenneth Williams spent a few hours on chores, ate fishcakes for lunch on his own and then - tormented by stomach pain and worn out by his ailing mother - downed a massive overdose of barbiturates and alcohol.

As a teen-ager, Daley watched his father confront a city that was ailing like "a jukebox running down in a deserted bar," as Nelson Algren put it.

Six nations have slipped backwards, as AIDS or an ailing economy has driven down life expectancy and wealth.

Rumors that the ailing John Paul could step down for health reasons by the end of the year have been growing.

In the quarterfinals, Schuettler wore down an ailing David Nalbandian, another unlikely Grand Slam finalist last year, at Wimbledon.