Sentence examples for the infirmity of from inspiring English sources

Given the infirmity of a large proportion of pensioners, the system would have to travel to them.

His huge personal charm and charisma, and his political genius, kept him on top throughout: the only force that could defeat him was the infirmity of old age.

The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.

Greenblatt recited the exchange: GONERIL: You see how full of changes his age is.... REGAN: 'Tis the infirmity of his age: yet he hath ever but slenderly known himself.

If you've been following my homage to the statistical deities all along then you'll have seen how at first I thought the continuing popularity of this venerable institution showed only the might of Google and the infirmity of literary culture.

Or, as Hobbes put it in Human Nature: "The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly".

He was very old, with all the infirmities of age.

Today, the infirmities of old age have not stopped Mr. Jones.

Dr. Guarente believes that inefficient silencing in cells could explain many of the infirmities of age.

But his passion for books, as for Plymouth Argyle, never dimmed as the infirmities of old age took their toll.

Speaking on the problems of medical care for the aged, Kuhn charged that "doctors prey on the infirmities of the old".