It enfeebled us so much that even freedom from European colonisation did not make us independent and strong. |
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Despite this, we are gradually unpicking the fabric of a once prosperous nation and turning it into a starved and enfeebled wasteland. |
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Artists dominated by reason lose all feeling, powerful instinct is enfeebled, inspiration becomes impoverished and the heart lacks its rapture. |
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She is enfeebled, dropsical, perpetually damp from cooking and cleaning, toothless, and refuses to wear false teeth. |
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Then Panama disease, a soil fungus, attacked banana plantations and the genetically enfeebled Gros Michel banana was virtually wiped out. |
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The mind or intellect seems to be enfeebled by sentiment today as your head and heart tug you in different directions. |
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He no doubt walks little old ladies across the street and feeds enfeebled kittens by hand to nurse them back to health. |
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New York's legislature was one of the last to pass a blue-sky law, letting through a deliberately enfeebled version. |
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The mind or intellect seems to be enfeebled by sentiment as your head and heart tug you in different directions. |
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The old man is too enfeebled to make the journey, and sends his young counterpart on the voyage to retrieve the treasure. |
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He was a weak, completely enfeebled old man, between one hundred and twenty and one hundred and fifty years old. |
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His success enfeebled the national democratic process, plunging Cambodia back into turmoil that continues to plague it today. |
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I am reminded of his awareness of how enfeebled modern literature can seem in an academic context. |
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When you are old and enfeebled your muscles don't work very well, you can't cough and you are at risk of pneumonia. |
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The institutions that are supposed to be providing these checks and balances seem to be temporarily enfeebled. |
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Even seminal fluid has been treated as a love philtre or prophylactic in witchcraft, and administered by Aborigines to dying or enfeebled members of their community. |
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If so, justice would not be served by proceeding against an enfeebled and mentally incompetent defendant. |
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Haikal, though enfeebled by exhaustion, nonetheless tried to be of assistance. |
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If we do not seize this opportunity, Europe will become an ever-expanding giant, but one enfeebled and dried out. |
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We should remember that the church, enfeebled and defective though it be, is the only object on earth on which Christ bestows His supreme regard. |
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Raising it with some effort the young monk wondered how so ancient a man as the hermit, blind and enfeebled by deprivation, could manage it. |
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We have also noted that population groups are not affected similarly: the poorest of the poor and women are particularly enfeebled by the crisis. |
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If Lear is played too old and too enfeebled to continue to do his job, then the play becomes a tragedy of old age and filial lack of attention, which is not the full play. |
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A plate of aluminium about fifteen millimetres thick, though it enfeebled the action seriously, did not cause the fluorescence to disappear entirely. |
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But by not bothering to run anyone, state Democratic parties remain enfeebled. |
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Nor does it make any sense for Saudi Arabia to turn to an enfeebled Europe, and the Saudis also know this all too well. |
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It has liberated the master as well as the slave from a relation which wronged and enfeebled both. |
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The Middle East has a long history of strong nations fighting proxy wars on the territory of enfeebled ones. |
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As quickly as his enfeebled muscles would allow, he made his way to what seemed to be the front of the room, and checked the giant roster for his schedule. |
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Yes, we are significantly enfeebled by the fact that the government has allowed military spending to plummet, as it has allowed international development spending to plummet. |
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It will be seen as a tired and enfeebled colossus, a continent filled with boastful babble, fragile and old, nothing more than a historical museum. |
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It is because culture gains nothing from a weakened rapporteur or from an enfeebled parliament in which different figures are used virtually every month that we strongly urge that these figures be taken as a basis. |
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Courtly intrigue The futility of coca eradication ReprintsMr Fachin's travails have little to do with jurisprudence and everything to do with a power struggle between an unruly Congress and an enfeebled president. |
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The recent divergence between America's employment and output suggests the country faces not just deficient demand but also enfeebled supply, as more people working without more output means lower productivity. |
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Before he became totally enfeebled a few months ago, Mr Yeltsin himself gave warning that the forces of authoritarian chauvinism were growing in Russia. |
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Napoleon placed a guard of honour outside Haydn's house, and the enfeebled composer was much touched by the visit of a French hussars' officer who sang an aria from The Creation. |
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But so enfeebled are our politicians that others will take his place. |
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Cutting it since 2010 at a time of growing need has been arguably one of the coalition's most short-sighted policies, with – hey presto – the NHS's workload pushed up and ability to do its job enfeebled as a result. |
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Our constitutions have never been enfeebled by the vices or luxuries of the old world. |
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In the face of enfeebled, self-harming opposition on both sides of the border he has performed brilliantly. |
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The membership of Labour has since fallen by half, which has presumably had the reverse effect. But enfeebled parties may not matter so much to the rest of the electorate. |
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This regime was being enfeebled completely. It was not possible for Iraq to threaten the world at large or the United States for that matter or its own population. |
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The popular version commonly available today is but an enfeebled version of the true astrology, which reveals the inner outworkings of the karmic wheel, which balances all causes with corresponding effects. |
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For example, Kenyan firms move goods by road because the state-owned railways, though cheaper, invariably deliver late, if at all. With Mr Kibaki enfeebled, economic and political reforms have stuttered. |
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I testify to my brethren and sisters that the church of Christ, enfeebled and defective as it may be, is the only object on earth on which He bestows His supreme regard. |
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Our children, made tender before birth by the softness of their parents, come into the world with a constitution already enfeebled, which cannot be at once exposed to all the trials required to restore it to health. |
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The church, enfeebled and defective, needing to be reproved, warned, and counseled, is the only object upon earth upon which Christ bestows His supreme regard. |
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The invasion of chaotic, enfeebled Haiti was a short-term success. |
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As the organism is already enfeebled by combating the influenza viruses, there is no problem for bacteria to infiltrate the body and cause further diseases. |
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The authors of this report feel duty-bound to forthrightly address the issue by endeavouring to pinpoint why European industry has come to be so enfeebled and propose ways and means to bring things back on an even keel. |
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Before the enfeebled of the dull-eyed lychnobite of the press could succumb to its influence, the cheerful voice of the magician awoke him. |
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