Sentence examples for enfeebled the from inspiring English sources

But nobody knows how enfeebled the system really is.

But by 1973, Watergate had enfeebled the administration and Nixon called for Mr. Mathias's re-election, saying they shared "a commitment to good government".

Worries about what may be lurking on them have contributed to the credit drought that has enfeebled the economies of southern Europe.

The Clinton administration's mistakes in Somalia in 1993 enfeebled the international response to genocide in Rwanda and Bosnia -- at a cost of hundreds of thousands of civilian lives.

But if he, or any pope, should become manifestly mentally enfeebled, the symbolism of his leadership would be drastically altered, as those who keep emphasizing that John Paul has lost none of his intellectual acuity obviously recognize.

The exactions of foreign bureaucrats, however, combined with internal decay, had so enfeebled the Canaanite vassal princes of Palestine that it was comparatively easy for the incoming Israelites to occupy most of the hill country east of the Jordan River and in western Palestine during the closing decades of the 13th century bce.

Little by little, like moisture in the walls of a house, this enfeebles the entire apple.

But the hold on Mr. Groves endures, enfeebling the Census Bureau in the critical final months before the count.

Murray further argues that government intervention also "enfeebles the institutions [families and larger communities] through which people live satisfying lives".

Hitting the magic 60 will change the psychology of life in the upper house, emboldening the Democrats and enfeebling the Republicans.

Many senior officials died in the quake that flattened the capital in 2010, further enfeebling the state.But the rescuers did little to build up Haiti's capacity to govern itself.