Sentence examples for mentally feeble from inspiring English sources

He was becoming mentally feeble.

Peter, who was mentally feeble and extremely pro-Prussian, not only alienated the affections of his wife soon after their marriage but also failed to gain the favour of politically powerful court cliques.

Six of the 14 films which featured a leading or supporting senior included ageist comments, such as a character telling another to "just sit here and let Alzheimer's run its course"; another included the line: "mentally feeble, sick old ladies".

After 1760 he was tutored by Catherine's close adviser, the learned diplomat Nikita Ivanovich Panin, but the boy never developed good relations with his mother, who wrested the imperial crown from her mentally feeble husband in 1762 and, afterward, consistently refused to allow Paul to participate actively in government affairs.

Nature informs us that women are physically frail, mentally feeble, and generally lacking in the necessary leadership virtues.

Sixty-eight years after the U.S. government employed atomic bombs to exterminate the populations of two Japanese cities and it became clear to all but the mentally feeble that nuclear war meant global annihilation, more than 17,000 nuclear weapons remain in existence, with 94percentt of them in the arsenals of the U.S. and Russian governments.

Negative eugenics took the form of encouraged or forced sterilizations of men and women deemed unfit to reproduce (in the language of the day, this included individuals who were "poor, mentally insane, feeble-minded, idiots, drunken" and more).

But even as the full extent of Nazis' racial cleansing programmes were being discovered, the idea of ridding the race of the mentally ill or feeble-minded was still doing the rounds in New Zealand.

He has been thinking about this because his aunt, a vigorous and independent old woman, went into a sudden and dramatic decline recently, becoming feeble and mentally confused.

In the First World War, there was a little German soldier, feeble and mentally unstable.

Laws in 32 states allowed sterilizations to be performed at state-run institutions on people deemed "feeble minded" or mentally ill or even, in some cases, sexually promiscuous.