Still, from an ageing man whose second-term performance has been feeble, they mark a welcome change.
Many in the West believe the currency conversion deal offered to East Germany by the Kohl Government is too generous, with the feeble East marks to be converted at a 1-to-1 rate for the strong West marks for wages and at a 2-to-1 rate for cash and savings up to 6,000 marks.
Masking tape on the sidewalk marks a feeble effort to prevent diners from blocking homes' entrances.
Compared with conditions in the market a year ago, which he characterized as "catastrophic," Mr. Scovel said the market showed signs of firming up and a possible recovery in what he called "a year of convalescence" marked by feeble growth.
U.S. radar detected 90 such flights into Honduras last year, compared with 24 in 2008, marking a major shift in trafficking patterns that indicates a strong preference for the country's rugged geography and feeble institutions.
The auditionees who copy them, unbidden, are marked as feeble-brained compliers and ushered through to the next stage.
Indeed, it marked the first, feeble sign that creditors were regaining the upper hand after years of bowing and scraping to borrowers.At the end of weeks of wrangling over the terms of the loan, the banks finally managed to squeeze from Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR), a private-equity group buying First Data, a concession helping them make sure that the debt would be repaid.
Juan José played an active part in the political intrigues that marked the minority of the feeble new king, his half brother, Charles II.
Three easy-to-miss words mark the fact that this story will not end in a feeble spasm.
In the calendar of Muammar el-Qaddafi's republic of fear and terror, Sept. 1 marks the coming to power, in 1969, of the officers and conspirators who upended a feeble but tolerant monarchy.
