Their feeble response to the cyclone has shown how hollow is this boast.
You stammer some feeble responses by way of reply, feeling your strength ebb away until you find an excuse to leave.
"Damascus has become feeble, she is turned to flight, fear has taken her in its grip: pain and sorrows have come on her, as on a woman in birth-pains."
The results of this study imply that the feeble, but erratic behavior of the black hole in the Milky Way could potentially be typical for present-day supermassive black holes.
Mr Romney's support, at just over 20% in most polls, remains quite feeble.
And symbolic caps on a few top executives, as the White House is threatening, are too feeble a response.
The old-fashioned personal God who merely judges, gives grace and speaks to us in prayer, is, after all, a pretty feeble God.
And the feeble recovery is petering out.
They sicken, and they grow feeble with age, and, finally, they die, just as we do.
Now he was back where he started, and his Yankee stadium sat like a feeble, gutted ghost beside the new stadium.
How feeble and pale he looked, amid all his triumph!
As they were passing through a grove of small trees, they heard a great fluttering over their heads and a feeble chirping in the grass by the roadside.
The Spanish have proved especially feeble, with ministers twice proposing and then swiftly backtracking on reforms, once over a rise in the legal pension age, and once over public-sector pay cuts.
With a strong reason, everything is going smoothly, and the hypocrisy of cowardice will be feeble and disoriented before sincere promises.
It was seen as infirm, feeble and impotent. China also won the great prize of peace.
Are Europeans really as feeble as he asserts?
And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews?
Yet he trembled, and turned to Hester with an expression of doubt and anxiety in his eyes, not the less evidently betrayed, that there was a feeble smile upon his lips.
Most of the other leaders in southern Africa—with a few notable exceptions, including Jacob Zuma, Mr Mbeki's rival and possible successor—have been equally feeble and downright dishonest.
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