Sentence examples for frail ailing from inspiring English sources

But the frail, ailing pope was also speaking to an audience well beyond Poland.

The frail, ailing 72-year-old has taken on one of India's most powerful politicians, Narendra Modi, the chief minister of India's most prosperous state, Gujarat.

But today the frail, ailing pope remained outside public view at a church retreat on Strawberry Island, about 60 miles north of Toronto, where he recuperated from his nine-hour flight on Tuesday from Rome.

Some agreed that he had little choice; some said he was frail, ailing and not in control; some contended that he was a willing conspirator, and Brij V. Lal, a Fijian historian, said the president was "a puppet in the pocket of the military".

ON four occasions -- in 1933, 1938 and 1943, and at another uncertain date in the mid-30's -- a frail, ailing, wealthy retired insurance company executive named Charles Ives was led into recording studios to play and record the piano music he had been composing on weekends for several decades.

Fueling speculation that John Paul II might retire at the end of this year, a Belgian cardinal says he believes that the frail, ailing pope could do exactly that.

Because her father had died shortly before, the union with this frail and ailing girl brought with it no political advantages.

Beauman's portraits of the unclubbable outsider Carter, obsessed with finding the tomb that he knows in his bones could be inches away from where he is digging, and Lord Carnarvon, ailing and frail, on the verge of withdrawing funds from Carter after many fruitless years of digging, are also vivid and illuminating.

For many Indonesians, and especially moderate Muslim leaders, it is proving difficult to accept the idea that a homegrown radical Islamic organization -- Jemaah Islamiyah, headed by a frail-looking cleric, Abu Bakar Bashir, who lies ailing in a hospital bed in police custody -- could have had a hand in a terrorist act on its own soil.

But while Deutsche is far less exposed to ailing consumers, it must contend with a frail German economy.

In Havana, the Cuban capital, the announcement of his death was far from unexpected — Castro had been ailing for years and appeared thin and frail in rare recent public appearances — but a profound sense of loss was evident among many Cubans about the passing of "El Comandante". .