In a bid to soften hardening attitudes towards the controversial deal agreed by all the main political parties in a late night meeting a week ago, Rusbridger said the old system of press regulation was "feeble".
Some day a hungry steam shovel will push its way down the Park way, there will be excited meetings in Mrs. Van Schlecteschwein's broad living room, feeble protests, letters to the press.
Both would be too feeble, and would be unlikely to press in the sun's direction anyway.
The feeble retail news set the stage for Paulson's mid-morning press conference, and the Treasury Secretary wasted little time in transforming the Troubled Asset Relief Program into a capital injection plan.
Confronted by the European press last week about the application of the death penalty to the feeble-minded, Mr. Bush declared, "We should never execute anybody who is mentally retarded".
It underscores the divisiveness of the debate about press regulation, at present supervised by a self-regulatory body generally seen as feeble.
The prime minister's action also underscored the divisiveness of the debate about press regulation, at present supervised by a self-regulatory body generally seen as a feeble restraint on newspapers with a reputation for a headlong pursuit of scoops and a frequent disregard for the privacy of politicians, celebrities and others.
Things could have gone majorly wrong: people might not have signed up for arrest, the press might have ignored us, and the whole thing could have fizzled into a feeble joke and a further discouragement to advocates.
ONE of the most feeble student demos ever seen was staged on July 23rd, outside the London hotel where Sir Ron Dearing was holding a press conference on the results of his 14-month inquiry into higher education.
His band, the Auteurs, were feted by the press and nominated for the Mercury Music Prize, an event he describes, with winning disdain, as a "feeble-minded sports day for the music biz".
