Sentence examples for infirm for from inspiring English sources
You are too old and infirm for our purposes".
You are too old and too infirm for our purpose".
Sagan looked infirm for her age--she walked with a cane--but she spoke energetically, and her yellowish hair was cut short, with long bangs.
During the following months, teams of S.S. doctors visited the major camps in turn, inspecting prisoners in order to select the "infirm" for gassing.
Pope Benedict XVI's announcement on Monday that he was stepping down because he was too elderly and infirm for the job was the first papal resignation in 598 years.
When we make it impossible for the dispossessed to rest their weary bodies at a bus shelter, we also make it impossible for the elderly, for the infirm, for the pregnant woman who has had a dizzy spell.
Illustrative of the mood of fear and anger over the huge taxpayer bailouts was Mr. Frank's recent observation that critics of the administration's health care proposal had misdirected their concerns — Congress would not be adopting death panels for infirm people but for troubled companies.
The company's product, which sells for 2,000 to 2,200 euros, or about $2,400 to $2,650, depending on the battery, was intended for the aged, the injured and the infirm, and for recreational cyclists who want the boost of an electric motor without the embarrassment that comes from riding an obvious electric bicycle.
Sure enough, banks are making the most of today's conditions: Credit Suisse, for instance, is structuring mortgage securities that are unrated by credit-rating agencies; it and others have begun securitising life-insurance policies that the old and infirm sell for cash.Not-so-great expectationsHowever, the days when finance accounted for 40% of corporate America's profits are over.
"What is beyond understanding is the attitude of the Home Office, who are removing a mother from her family, leaving two young girls in the care of elderly and infirm grandparents for no apparent reason.
When his father, Mario M. Cuomo, inherited a nearly $2 billion deficit on taking office as governor in 1983, he emphasized that fiscal prudence should not stop state government from providing "shelter for the homeless, work for the idle, care for the elderly and infirm and hope for the destitute" — even as he prepared to ask for 14,000 state layoffs.
