By historical standards it is feeble (see chart).Although banks do typically run down capital in a recession, it is clear that they still do not command enough market confidence to borrow at commercially attractive rates.
He thinks it is feeble of Europe, and unfair on America, for the former to have to call on the latter whenever there is serious war to be waged.
But it is feeble to insist that it can only be done by giving council housing to the private- sector financial interests which permeate the office of the deputy prime minister and its task force.
I'm not sure I can stand to be quite so optimistic, although the fact that the state is making an effort — even if it is feeble one, perhaps only aimed at placating Westerners — demonstrates a recognition of the problem and, maybe, just maybe, a willingness to address it.
The caricature of the jihadi as a medieval throwback, animated by ancient passions, may be comforting to those who would like to wrap themselves in the mantle of civilisation and pose as heirs of Voltaire, but as a way of actually understanding anything, it's feeble.
It is feeble-minded and wretched cowardice to give in to the mob mentality of people who have no time for democracy.
It's feebler than Godfather 3. The academic George Levine – a man of unusually determined intellect – once wrote an article describing how he had taken three months off from university teaching to read Thomas Pynchon's magnum opus.
For all the West's supposedly huge soft power, it has been feeble in its efforts to win over moderate Muslims in the most important battle of all, that of ideas.
