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Then, with the immediate default risk removed, money stormed out of risky assets into Treasuries to wait out the economic bad news – mainly feeble and declining growth, employment stagnation, and falling equity prices.
The following August, a sick and feeble Yeltsin announced that Vladimir Putin, the fourth prime minister in a year, would soon take over as President.
Everyone seems to agree that more investment would help to strengthen a worryingly feeble European economy.
We found that during the MDGs, high-poverty countries with strong state institutions were able to reduce poverty twice as fast as countries with feeble capacity, and were more likely to achieve the MDGs’ target of halving poverty by 2015.
The list goes on: events in the Middle East have killed all prospects for peace in the region; the measures taken to aid global recovery –ampnbsp;including regulatory improvements, such as separation of retail and investment banking, elimination of tax havens, and cracking down on rating agencies’ conflicts of interest –ampnbsp;have been feeble; and the last two G-20 meetings have been gross failures.
The global economy risks getting stuck in a “new mediocre” – a prolonged period of slow growth and feeble job creation.
The recovery is too feeble, and the country needs to invest an additional $1 trillion annually for ten years on transport facilities and education.
Later, he argued that austerity was also theoretically wrong: cutting incomes in one country causes incomes to fall elsewhere, spreading a depression and ensuring that any recovery will be delayed and feeble.
In her famous Tilbury speech at the time of the Spanish Armada, Queen Elizabeth I of England played to the stereotype, declaring that “I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king.”
Unlike feeble Italy, with its “large number of elderly people,” contemporary Brazil, he argued, “has everything, yes, everything to be a great Nation.”
But such “wealth effects” and “animal spirits” proved quite feeble.
Far from essential, a new currency agreement is nothing more than a feeble grab for political bragging rights.
The feeble response to this crisis by the world’s democracies reflects more a lack of political will than a lack of solutions.
More and more market analysts are warning that any recovery from the downturn will be feeble, at best.
'Yes, it's a dirty business, say what you will,' remarked an undersized man with a feeble voice.
Then followed a dead silence, and a feeble voice was heard saying:'Declines!''Court Councillor Peter Petrovich Bol will now be balloted for,' cried the voice of the man in uniform.
Falling on his knees by her bedside he held his wife's hand to his lips, kissing it, and that hand, by a feeble movement of the fingers, replied to the kisses.
Beside it, behind a clump of feeble lilacs, was situated the shed, a low building full of old tools, in which were brought up the rabbits which were eaten on feast days.
The woman now was going away, with lowered head and feeble limbs, looking very tired.
They saw Maigrat, on the other side of the road, barricading his shop with a large supply of iron bars, and looking so pale and trembling that his feeble little wife was obliged to fasten the screws.
No doubt Zacharie, infuriate with the feeble vacillating light, which delayed his work, committed the imprudence of opening his lamp, although severe orders had been given for leakages of fire-damp had taken place, and the gas remained in enormous masses in these narrow, unventilated passages.
They could wait patiently now; they had lowered the wick of the lamp, leaving only the feeble gleam of a night-light.
So don't shrug your shoulders so blithely, and don't discount something with the feeble excuse that you've never heard of it."
However, looking at the zenith directly overhead, I thought I caught sight of a feeble glimmer, a sort of twilight filtering through a circular hole.
His voice, feeble at first and quavering, grew sharp; it resounded in the night like the indistinct moan of a vague distress; and through the ringing of the bells, the murmur of the trees, and the rumbling of the empty vehicle, it had a far-off sound that disturbed Emma.
Universally despised, as a feeble creature, Julien had adored that old Surgeon-Major who one day ventured to speak to the Mayor on the subject of the plane trees.
Ah!How I should send her packing!'Absorbed in these drastic thoughts, the little that he deigned to take in of the polite speeches of the two ladies displeased him as being devoid of meaning, silly, feeble, in a word _feminine_.
I might, if he were, with the aid of my own feeble wits, forecast what he would do or say.
Your carelessness, your laziness leave you just enough activity to chase butterflies, feeble creatures which we are so unfortunate as to have in our households ...'Madame de Renal let him speak, and he spoke at length; he passed his anger, as they say in those parts.
At length the man stopped writing, and with a sidelong glance at Julien asked:'Are you in a fit state to answer my questions?''Yes, Sir,' said Julien in a feeble voice.
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