Sentence examples for infirm in from inspiring English sources

Keeping the elderly and infirm in prison is extraordinarily costly.

We are terrified that we will be penniless and infirm in our old age.

He has sometimes been thought of as infirm in moral purpose, but this is to misjudge him.

The Blackwood girls are the last surviving remnants of this grand old family, along with Uncle Julian, infirm in body and often in mind.

Benedict, when he was Cardinal Ratzinger, watched as his predecessor and close collaborator, John Paul, grew increasingly infirm in the final years of his papacy, an experience believed to have weighed on Benedict's decision.

In California home-care workers, who look after the infirm in their own houses, have demonstrated against Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposal to cut their pay to the state minimum wage of $8 per hour.

She spoke volumes by chairing the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, but also empathetically supported the Elton John Aids Foundation and a food charity for infirm shut-ins.

Via the characterization of the transgene flanking region between the transgenic cassette and the plant genome as well as of a part of the transgenic cassette, the presence of GMOs was properly confirmed or infirmed in all tested samples.

Though Jenkins' critical darling is ostensibly a look at aging and dementia, as Jon and Laura Linney's Wendy are forced to put their infirm father in a facility in Buffalo, it's ultimately about the two younger leads and questions of ambition and commitment.

The interest in the contest was so high that during the day, people waited up to four hours to vote, many, including the elderly and the infirm, standing in the hot sun and in packed hallways.

Add another to the list of the infirm: Michel Abreu, filling in for Carlos Delgado at first base, sustained a strained right hip flexor while running to first Monday and did not make the trip to Jupiter Tuesday.