Mr Azarov, widely mocked for his feeble attempts to learn the national language (born in Russia, he moved to Ukraine only when he was in his late thirties), was hardly a power-broker or a popular figurehead.
The Southern African Development Community (SADC), another regional club of 15 countries, which has been so feeble over Zimbabwe, could learn a trick or two from ECOWAS.The club's Achilles heel is Nigeria, Africa's most populous country.
Beyond the obvious hurdle of getting consumers to pay for information they think they can get free elsewhere on the Web, online education companies have failed to dispel the image of e-learning as a feeble alternative to the real thing.
On my hands I learned to walk, my legs grew feeble.
We're probably only at the outer edge of the many-layered onion of fresh horrors made possible by machine learning and AI, and previously unimagined by our feeble fleshy brains, so strap in.
Deep learning has been applied to language understanding, but the results are feeble so far.
British and American readers may be surprised to learn (though they shouldn't be) that their countries' role in land warfare was so feeble.
But enforcement is feeble.
