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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enfeeble.

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  • The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency — the belief that the here and now is all there is.

    A Progressive on the Prairie » April Bibliolust » Print 2010

  • The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency — the belief that the here and now is all there is.

    April Bibliolust « A Progressive on the Prairie 2010

  • A woman from Los Angeles told the Mellman pollsters that this relentless loss of manufacturing capability enfeebles America: "When you consume more than you produce, you become dependent, and we are consuming more from other countries than producing our own. . .truly we have become weak and in order to strengthen the economy, I think we need to produce more."

    Leo W. Gerard: U.S. Politicians Deny the Obvious Injury; U.S. Manufacturing Bleeds Leo W. Gerard 2010

  • A woman from Los Angeles told the Mellman pollsters that this relentless loss of manufacturing capability enfeebles America: "When you consume more than you produce, you become dependent, and we are consuming more from other countries than producing our own ... truly we have become weak and in order to strengthen the economy, I think we need to produce more."

    Leo W. Gerard: U.S. Politicians Deny the Obvious Injury; U.S. Manufacturing Bleeds 2010

  • Our indebtedness enfeebles the range of our responses to what are cataclysmic forces.

    Waiting for Ramsay MacDonald? Burke's Corner 2009

  • Our indebtedness enfeebles the range of our responses to what are cataclysmic forces.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Burke's Corner 2009

  • Only a complete withdrawal of all U.S. troops - within six months and with no preconditions - can break the paralysis that now enfeebles our diplomacy.

    FINALLY, A QUICK, DECISIVE AND HONORABLE EXIT PLAN FOR IRAQ 2006

  • "Only a complete withdrawal of all U.S. troops - within six months and with no preconditions - can break the paralysis that now enfeebles our diplomacy and the greatest obstacles to cutting and running are the psychological inhibitions of our leaders and the public:" Lt Gen William E. Odom (ret)

    FINALLY, A QUICK, DECISIVE AND HONORABLE EXIT PLAN FOR IRAQ 2006

  • The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency-

    Archive 2006-01-01 M-mv 2006

  • He indulges the feelings, while he enfeebles the reason; and we refuse to allow him to have authority over the mind of man; for he has no measure of greater and less, and is a maker of images and very far gone from truth.

    The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

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