The block mechanic in particular is very feeble and not many skills that block are worth using.

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And Conservative front-bencher Baroness Blatch said the government's proposed "position of trust" safeguards were "very feeble and deeply flawed".

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The inclusion of the latter seemed very much like a feeble attempt to justify the former and was, in my opinion, neither necessary nor illuminating.

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