Sentence examples for to infirmity from inspiring English sources

For our parents, driving is the symbolic resistance to infirmity and old age.

Tacitus, Suetonius, and the later historian Dio Cassius attribute Claudius's mistakes to infirmity of character and the influence of his wives and freedmen.

His old poker group had difficulty mustering five players, and his old golf foursome "had been dispersed to infirmity and Florida if not to the grave".

At the same time, the experience of watching an aged John Paul struggle through public events could steer cardinals away from choosing someone old -- and too potentially close to infirmity.

There have been retirements due to infirmity (Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gunter Grass); but they can also be Salinger-like retreats from the public gaze but not fiction, giving up one genre only (Forster and the novel, Eliot and poetry), or the enforced result of rejection (Barbara Pym's 16-year hiatus) - all of which are reversible and don't entail abandoning authorship altogether.

A third of patients are unable to attend appointments, due to infirmity or distance, he says.

The formation of these gaps may be due to the infirmity of PFO-DBT solution to occupy the cavity.

Roger Hill is inclined to believe that there is some sort of psychic slant to this infirmity, that Welles sprains his ankle because he is worried or doubtful about something.

But chronological age should not be assumed to imply infirmity.

In the end, no place, no matter how serene, is immune to illness, infirmity and despair.

But slowing aging would also allow about 5% more seniors to avoid infirmity between 2030 and 2060 than would reductions in cancer or heart disease alone.