Sentence examples for infirmity the from inspiring English sources

Despite their offensive infirmity, the Tigers apparently face a challenge from the San Diego Padres for fewest victories in the major leagues.

"I'll be happy to see the full rigour of the law visited on these people, no matter what their age or infirmity". The accused, who are being held in custody, face up to 20 years' imprisonment if convicted of illegal confined and premeditated killing.

Hosni Mubarak, the deposed president of Egypt who is facing trial next week on charges that could carry the death penalty, is refusing to eat solid food and is suffering "weakness and severe infirmity," the official Egyptian news agency MENA reported Tuesday.

In addition to causing disease and infirmity, the shock and experience of hazards and their consequences have a complex impact on physical, mental, and social well-being (Marx et al. 2012).

When we gaze at our patients in those awful blue gowns, camped on that ultimate symbol of infirmity, the hospital bed, it seems impossible that they ever had other lives.

If any cardinal elector is in the Chapel, but cannot proceed to the altar due to infirmity, the last Scrutineer may go to him and take his ballot after the oath is recited.

From one of the bedrocks of the human condition the tension between the infirmities of the elderly and the longings of the young emerges a pioneering work of exploration into the darker recesses of family life.

The contract will carry with it the infirmity of the subject-matter.

The infirmity is the nasty psychological law by which experience falls short of our expectations of it, the existence of a kind of barrier between perception and reality.

It is paradoxical that this very fullness of the affidavit may be the source of the constitutional infirmity that the majority finds.

The court found that, considering his age, his infirmity and the fact the he is now a stateless person, there was little chance that he would try to flee while his appeals progress.