Sentence examples for of the feeble from inspiring English sources

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I am painfully aware of the feeble stature of writers and intellectuals in this complex world.

But that power had to be used in the service of the feeble local authority.

I say nothing of the feeble jokes on "bee" and "be" and Pooh Bear.

He sauntered over to the kitchen and poured himself a cup of the feeble coffee that Szmura had kindly prepared.

The trials were brazenly mismanaged – in defiance of the feeble and ambiguous evidence – to yield convictions for sedition.

She passed for a second in front of the feeble light over the entrance and landed on the sloping entrance of the underground parking garage.

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Europe's long-running economic troubles have been, for the most part, confined to the feeble countries of Europe Greece, Spain, Portugal and Italyy.

Most people thought these rumors to be nonsense, the superstitions of the feeble-minded.

Both Theodore Roosevelt and Churchill desired the neutering of the "feeble-minded", as was the parlance in Edwardian days.

They ranged from warm support for the eugenic extermination of "the feeble-minded and insane classes" to detestation of Indians, "a beastly people" whose aspirations for freedom he consistently blocked.

Indeed, Dr Sean Gabb has clearly shown that the impetus behind the 1908 Punishment of Incest Act was just that: the proponents of the act were exactly the same figures who advocated the "sterilisation" of the "feeble-minded".

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