With the Gaza Strip and its 1.5m inhabitants now under the control of Hamas, which is in turn under international siege, Mr Abbas can speak only for the West Bank, where more Palestinians live but over which his ramshackle Palestinian Authority exercises only the feeblest control.
Congressional investigators are exploring whether regulators and feeble risk controls allowed MF Global to topple.
Worry is just our feeble attempt to control the future.
But I also believe that worrying is our feeble attempt to control the uncertainty of the future.
Indeed, a controlling person is always seeking ways to change some part of your core traits or personality, reshaping you as part of their feeble attempt to control the world around them.
Siri may leave your phone and become omnipresent: artificial intelligence will (and cloud computing could) allow virtually any machine, no matter how individually feeble, to be controlled simply by talking to it.
Their jobs do not correspond precisely, either: Mr. Bloomberg, with a feeble City Council, has more control over bread-and-butter issues like crime, education and housing.
Bosses in Italy are adept at creating fiddly capital structures that fortify their control and feeble at building competitive multinationals.Second, France is attempting to impose double voting rights as a default option.
Yet a budget showdown looms, sooner rather than later.A confrontation looms, too, over Mr Obama's (feeble) proposals on gun control, such as curbs on high-capacity ammunition clips or new checks on gun buyers.
But the Qing court, terminally beleaguered by Western encroachments along the China coast, was too feeble to impose central control on its far-flung takings.
Markovic called the attack "attempted murder" by the Yugoslav forces over which his feeble government has lost control.
