Sentence examples for feeble hold from inspiring English sources

The rebels immediately set about looting, according to residents, another indication of the state's feeble hold on the destitute country.

The rebels present a growing threat to the government's already feeble hold on the country.

All view the Tbilisi government with varying degrees of scorn.Mr Shevardnadze held a feeble grip on these regions at the best of times, and with his exit the centrifugal forces seem to have increased.

In contrast, Charon's gravitational pull is too feeble to hold on to those volatile gases.

Lydia is having thoughtful and in-depth conversations with a chimp, getting drunk with him, making sweet love to him — and the reality kept bearing its head, despite my feeble attempts to hold it down: she is certifiably insane, and reading the book with that in mind makes it a completely different story.

I held my feeble light up to help; none seemed to fit the lock.

Italy's contorted politics may make this easier.The Prodi government's hold on power is feeble (and became feebler this week after it took a drubbing in local elections, especially in the north).

Her arms have grown so feeble that she struggles to hold her 2-year-old son and care for her husband and two daughters.

He then remembered a 3M colleague's talk about a new glue he'd developed: a paste so feeble that it could barely hold two pieces of paper together.

No fewer than 16 mainly feeble governments, military or civilian, held office between 1964 and 1983.

It is a great white elephant, held back by the feeble condition of Cuba's economy.