Examples of feeble

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The evidence was also felt to reveal the likelihood of a higher than normal birth rate amongst the feeble-minded.
Feeble-minded children are defined as those who appear to be 'permanently incapable' of receiving proper benefit from teaching in ordinary schools.
I pay close attention to ensuring that my body does not become feeble like it was before.
Note that this acceleration would always happen, however feeble the current supply, provided one waited long enough.
Between 1648 and 1656, a string of twelve incapable and feeble sadrazams served terms of one to twelve months in office.
The proposed structural reforms, with the exception of the pension reform and the labour reform, typically met feeble or fragmented opposition from the labour movement.
In the world of the human, all too human, it has something uncomfortably feeble about it.
Indeed, ' open the door ' seems to me too feeble a metaphor.
Thus, even if this argument could be considered as scientifically valid, its polemical e$cacy was feeble.
You cannot claim, for example, when you consult a tennis instructor to cure your feeble backhand that you are obtaining medical care.
In regions where the field is strong, motion is restricted to slender and relatively feeble plumes, while regions with vigorous convection are almost field-free.
We should emphasize that 'weak combinatorial stability' is a really feeble concept.
Was it a feeble infant lucky to survive or the carrier of the class politics of the future ?
They told a tale which was then altogether beyond my feeble comprehension.
How could such a feeble regime last over centuries?
Holmes compared two types of death, that caused by such diseases as smallpox and that brought about by the social inadequacies of feeble-minded people.
Her illegitimate infant daughter was also diagnosed as feeble-minded.
The future squire's boyishness thus spills into "girlishness," and although he makes attempts at asserting independence, they are as feeble and lightly treated as those of a marriageable daughter.
Stability of the whole is assured, in fact, by the compaction under gravity of the various elements; a general state of compression exists, but only feeble tensions can be resisted.
The catholicity of our theatre (which has greatly increased in the half-century since his death) appears to his taste as a feeble readiness to swallow anything.
Since the late nineteenth century, physicians and psychologists in charge of such groups as the feeble-minded, the insane, and the alcoholic had been pushing for the sterilization of these people.
When everything unexpectedly and spectacularly fell apart, there were some feeble excuses and recriminations from the two principal actors in the drama that were part comedy and part tragedy.
Why was the resistance so feeble?
A simile was thus introduced between the protection of both an individual and society through enforced vaccination and through the enforced sterilization of a feeble-minded person.
Only in the nineteenth century did anatomy - and all other "natural" endowments - become destiny; the hold of eighteenth-century nature was feeble by comparison and all too easily subverted.
Let me deal now with the feeble-minded freedom argument.
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