Sentence examples for feeble grounds from inspiring English sources

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Basically, this is a defanged, declawed, depoliticised Margaret Thatcher, whom we are invited to admire on the feeble grounds that she is tougher and gutsier than the men.

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Recent reports out of spring practice point towards Army re-installing an option-based, wishbone offense in order to upgrade the feeble ground game.

He walked no one and he elicited feeble grounder after grounder.

And despite the support from generally strong German growth since the middle of 2009, the euro zone as a whole has failed to do so owing to a double-dip recession that lasted even longer than the first one and a subsequent feeble recovery that ground to a halt in the second quarter of 2014.

Holloway knows better than most that almost anywhere you care to look Blackpool is not ready – the Bloomfield Road pitch, the training ground, the feeble stadium capacity of not quite 10,000 and the horrendous one-way system around the ground that probably could not cope with many more 3pm visitors in any case – yet he views those matters as mere detail.

A sluggish ground cricket makes feeble attempts to overcome a leaf.

TV: CH2, 3 30 p.m. Louisiana State (3-2) at No. 12 Florida (4-1) Florida quarterback Jesse Palmer has a sprained ankle; the ground game is feeble, and the defense is in disarray.

There is the dogged American lawyer who represents a Libyan imprisoned at Guantánamo on the basis of evidence first dismissed as feeble and then reclassified, without explanation, as grounds for confinement.

Japan's stock market fell sharply today as the benchmark Nikkei index dropped to its lowest level in nearly two years, deepening fears that Japan's feeble economic recovery might be losing ground.

Last month as hundreds of hopefuls registered to stand for election, Khatami declined to run and declared support for Rafsanjani, who put his name forward but was disqualified on the grounds that he was too "feeble" to govern the country.

And now we're going to replace that with a system in which large numbers of Americans have to plead for special dispensation, on the grounds that they're too feeble to work for a living".

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