Why didn't the Treasury Department--behind the scenes--tell the Fed to strengthen the enfeebled greenback?
The enfeebled greenback has led to high gas prices and to windfall revenues for our enemies.
Can enfeebled Italy and Spain afford to pledge tens of billions of euros more?
But enfeebled parties may not matter so much to the rest of the electorate.
In its enfeebled state, Eurocrats now concede, more harsh deficit-cutting may cause a dangerously severe recession.
The opposition, already enfeebled by years of repression, would have been dealt a possibly fatal blow.
It has liberated the master as well as the slave from a relation which wronged and enfeebled both.
This simultaneous shift in the rich world's core as well as the enfeebled euro periphery raises two questions.
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For the time being, Mr Chirac declares confidence in his enfeebled prime minister.
UN, which finally brought about the demise of the Khmers Rouges in 1998, by then an enfeebled bunch of guerrillas.
The Islamic Republic is enfeebled by corruption, inefficiency and the institutionalised disdain of those in authority for the people they rule.
Another Kabul-based security analyst and former Afghan Ministry of Interior official, Sami Sadat, said Friday's attack showed signs of an enfeebled Taliban.
And a final parallel with America may yet apply: that you can impeach a president and yet leave him morally enfeebled in the top job.
Enfeebled by emergency laws that preclude normal political activity, the country's 15 featherweight legal opposition parties failed to gain a dozen seats between them.
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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Just as dangerously, poverty and the enfeebled infrastructure make Iraq far more vulnerable to epidemics, and possibly to widespread hunger, than it was in 1990.
The opposition griped that these were designed to ensure that Mr Yushchenko, the likely winner of a free and fair re-run, would inherit an enfeebled presidency.
In their enfeebled state, some Khmers Rouges hatched a plan to negotiate a surrender, which would allow a new generation to pursue their aims within mainstream politics.
Pakistan is not Afghanistan, where 20 years of war so enfeebled the state that an extremist religious faction such as the Taliban could march into power largely unopposed.
With Mr Kibaki enfeebled, economic and political reforms have stuttered.
The intifada and Israel's military response have inflicted great economic hardship on the Palestinians, and have also enfeebled the Israeli economy, so peace should bring renewed prosperity all round.
Given the baleful political and economic consequences of this inflation, aren't you astonished that the Administration and the Fed haven't taken an active role in shoring up the enfeebled greenback?
Now Spain's enfeebled banks are being made even weaker, by the broader economic consequences of tackling the government's debt problem - a problem created, in no small part, by the banks themselves.
At Oort-cloud distances, the strength of this combined gravity adds up to the same sort of force as that exerted by the solar gravitational field, enfeebled as it is by its remoteness from the sun.
Since last month's unity government agreement between the enfeebled March 14 movement and Hizbullah gave Hizbullah control over Lebanese Foreign Ministry, what Lebanon's election to the Security Council means is that come January, Hizbullah will be a member of the Council.
Alas, it is not what is driving the rise in the non-EU share right now: that owes more to the enfeebled state of Europe than a boom in trade to the Brics (though exports to China did rise again in July).
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