Sentence examples for reason of infirmity from inspiring English sources

The Labour MP and historian Tristram Hunt suggested in the Times that all those "commentators reaching for the 1937 and 1953 Regency Acts that legislate for a transfer of functions to a Regent if 'the Sovereign is by reason of infirmity of mind or body incapable for the time being of performing the royal functions'," were being "both premature and unhelpful".

Framed in 1937 legislation but originally formulated in the Regency Act, after George III finally went mad in 1811, it allows for the lord chancellor – currently Michael Gove – the Speaker of the Commons, the lord chief justice and the master of the rolls to step in if "by reason of infirmity of mind or body the Sovereign is incapable for the time being of performing the royal functions".

If any cardinal elector is by reason of infirmity confined to his room, the Infirmarii go to their rooms with ballot papers and a box.

A registration system should be created under which no unregistered person should be permitted to provide direct physical care to patients currently under the care and treatment of a registered nurse or a registered doctor (or who are dependent on such care by reason of disability and/or infirmity) in a hospital or care home setting.

No one ― for reason of age or infirmity ― should be able to touch you or make you uncomfortable with impunity, she said.

More often than not, it involves some sort of infirmity.

By that time, Marshall's mother had begun to show signs of infirmity.

She explains her bouts of infirmity in departure lounges: "I'm afraid of connections … in airports".

For public officials to capitalise on this fear of infirmity is both sinister and cruel.

You know, this is a pop band that sprang out of infirmity.

He cannot hide his frustration at the onset of infirmity and his inability to do any more.