But the nation's tax collector today is an enfeebled enforcer.
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So the doctrine emerges maimed and enfeebled — in truth, zombified.
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Chemotherapy enfeebled him, and he missed months of oral argument.
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Allegations of corruption have enfeebled Ms Fernández as a political force.
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If she gets it wrong, her already enfeebled administration could collapse.
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Children are so enfeebled that heartsick pediatricians begin to kill themselves.
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It does not follow that America's billionaires have enfeebled the economy.
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Its leaders, however enfeebled by scandal, must persevere with that vital work.
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Is the American goal an enfeebled, compliant Iranian state or regime change?
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If an Orban associate is accused of stealing funds, the judiciary proves enfeebled.
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This is a normal, ethical action, one able creature helping another enfeebled one.
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"At the end of the day he is hurt and enfeebled," Cheronis said.
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Hurricane Maria was simply the knockout blow to the island's already enfeebled economy.
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He has all the elements of a strongman: strident nationalism, personality cult, enfeebled opposition.
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With enforcement enfeebled, as much as 20 percent of potential tax revenues goes uncollected.
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But despite Petrograd's enfeebled state, Zinoviev was in high spirits for the revolution's anniversary.
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So on it must plod, more zombie than champion, an emblem of an enfeebled industry.
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Ford's subsequent pardon of Nixon, and a stalled economy, enfeebled him and prompted California Gov.
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The Knicks, enfeebled for most of the past two decades, have been unable to push back.
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FABER: Does leaving an enfeebled competitor worry you to act – sort of figure into your decision making?
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When Mr Obama claimed that America was not enfeebled militarily, many Republican congressmen emitted a scandalised gasp.
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The robotic exoskeleton can add strength and stamina to healthy limbs and restore movement to enfeebled ones.
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At any rate, with the Democrats now enfeebled, the LDP seems to have lost interest in changing things.
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Last year's dominant male, which displaced an obviously enfeebled 856 from the river, has yet to show up.
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But in that case, the bets are off everywhere, including in an enfeebled and already economically stagnant Europe.
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Later, Evan makes the same journey with the older, enfeebled Karamakate (Antonio Bolívar Salvador), whose tribe is now extinct.
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For one thing, Syria is hardly a resounding victory: Mr Assad is the enfeebled leader of a ruined country.
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SILVIO BERLUSCONI'S position in Italian politics has been enfeebled since the ignominious end of his fourth government in 2011.
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Mr Macron has been helped by a big parliamentary majority, and an opposition enfeebled by his new party's rise.
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By swapping an enfeebled Abbas with the Hamas-aligned Muslim Brotherhood, we would enable terrorists to threaten Israel's heartland.
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Some online skeptics say Mr. Lichtenfeld was so enfeebled by then that he would have signed anything if asked.
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Though visibly enfeebled, Mr. Mugabe, 93, has shown the negotiating skills that have kept him in power for 37 years.
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But by now, enfeebled by regional rivalries and disagreements, the league has acquired an all-too-mockable reputation for dysfunction.
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I chose the hot-pink color, because I think that's how a mold of an enfeebled penis ought to look.
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Its public finances are enfeebled: last year it recorded a gross fiscal deficit (ie, including debt service) of 8.9% of GDP.
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One day, he lost his laptop, and felt so disoriented and enfeebled that it was as if he'd had a stroke.
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He is the party's presumptive nominee, after all, because the political forces that once might have halted his rise have been enfeebled.
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After defeating the enfeebled Qing dynasty in the First Opium War, Britain took over the island and made it a crown colony.
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The fact that the British did not take it in perpetuity was an attempt to help the enfeebled Qing dynasty save face.
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The spell wears off as the enfeebled warlock attempts to wrassle the barrel across the floor, like a teenager at a kegger.
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"So the doctrine emerges maimed and enfeebled - in truth, zombified," wrote conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch, who had wanted to terminate Auer deference.
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The Redstone forces dreaded the prospect of more examinations of the ailing and enfeebled billionaire, giving Mr. Dauman and his allies considerable leverage.
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They have all been enfeebled over recent years as our resources and attention have shifted to the tiny addictive devices in our hands.
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Two months later, as contractors were only beginning to assess the damage, Hurricane Irma delivered a coup de grâce to the already enfeebled building.
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It's a perfect storm of disaster, because Trump's authoritarian bullying has collided at a moment when the press is very enfeebled by digital disruption.
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You have a very weak, enfeebled press colliding with a very authoritarian, bullying government with our president—and those two things are very very scary.
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In the imaginations of their sore-winner, alpha dog-underdog opponents, the snobs are simultaneously too dangerous to ignore and too enfeebled to take seriously.
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He is already enfeebled, having been forced by a political outcry to shelve a proposal to strip nationality from French-born dual citizens convicted of terrorism.
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He has enfeebled democratic institutions, strived to achieve a Hungarian ethnic homogeneity and pulled his nation closer to the opponents of American influence, Russia and China.
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It makes me feel like a woman in a 19th-century novel emerging from a fever: enfeebled, glassy-eyed, humbled by the gift of being alive.
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His officials are lining up behind him, claiming total innocence, saying they would like to help but are denied the opportunity by an enfeebled British government.
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Gorsuch said that while the opinion manages to leave court precedent "maimed and enfeebled" the justices should have found the "nerve" to wipe it off the books.
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An enfeebled Mrs Merkel, now on her way out, is unlikely to become any more obliging, especially if Mr Macron is trying to poach her group's MEPs.
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Some conservatives, especially in America, portray the continent as too decadent and enfeebled to defend itself against a stealthy Islamic conquest, growling that it has become "Eurabia".
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Many believe the government wanted to scoop up what was left of the enfeebled opposition before a verdict in Mrs Zia's trial, expected in the coming months.
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It has merely been evaded, eroded and enfeebled by the corroding effect of decades of industry pressure and ideological drift, yielding hesitant enforcers and a hostile judiciary.
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As they wander through the spectacular Greek ruins at Taormina in Sicily, they will surely be wondering how to relate to the enigmatic and enfeebled American president.
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To regain her good will, her husband has pretended to be enfeebled by a heart attack, but when Maude says she forgives him, he confesses that he's fine.
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Warren's call to break up America's tech leaders will no doubt go down well with Chinese and Europe leaders, who would prefer to face enfeebled U.S. tech giants.
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Frustration with a president so enfeebled that his framed image — known as "the frame" — replaces his physical presence at government rallies appears to have boiled over, analysts said.
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A case can be made, possibly, that the younger man is assisting a sick or enfeebled older man to seek medical attention or to complete an arduous journey.
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Matt Jones, a popular sports talk personality, has told people he's unlikely to run if Democrats here are so weakened that they cannot even unseat an enfeebled Mr. Bevin.
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Over the past few years, an enfeebled France has been a chronically weak partner for Germany, pushing Mrs Merkel into a solo role that she neither sought nor relished.
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A generation later, the conservative revolution arrived in both countries, with Margaret Thatcher triumphing over an enfeebled Labour government, in 1979, and Ronald Reagan routing Jimmy Carter, in 1980.
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Circulation is now well below one million, heralding a downward spiral of staff cuts, reliance on news-agency copy and articles siphoned from social media, and an enfeebled voice.
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Against this backdrop, the Trump administration hopes to breathe new life into the enfeebled domestic solar industry with tariffs of 30 percent on solar imports from nearly every country.
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But a few trends—chief among them worsening traffic, the climate crisis, and the spread of the smartphone—primed Americans for alternatives to enfeebled transit and the car monoculture.
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People danced in the streets — anything was better than the enfeebled nonagenarian autocrat who had all but destroyed the economy of a country rich in resources and human potential.
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While China is now a sophisticated economy and a rising power, North Korea has become increasingly isolated, enfeebled and erratic, depending on China for most of its food and energy.
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Security experts said the economic downturn, rising unemployment and enfeebled public finances had emboldened criminals and many of the drug trafficking gangs that in recent years had been in retreat.
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Last weekend's protests unnerved investors and led to a pro-Sisi campaign in Egypt's strictly controlled media, which have tried to tarnish Ali's image and that of Egypt's enfeebled opposition.
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There was satisfaction among law-enforcement officials at the fact that the Snake's gang had been further enfeebled by the willingness of members and associates to inform on their comrades.
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It has merely been evaded, eroded and enfeebled by the corroding effect of decades of industry pressure and ideological drift, yielding" what he says is, "hesitant enforcers and a hostile judiciary.
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The longer Putin waits to relinquish power, the more volatile this power struggle will be, and the less capable an increasingly aged and enfeebled Putin will be of shaping its outcome.
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They presumably do have Democrats in their sights, but even if Democrats heed the call, they will be hard-pressed to thwart the right's agenda now that the filibuster is enfeebled.
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For Russia, with an enfeebled economy and a nuclear arsenal it cannot use short of all-out war, cyberpower proved the perfect weapon: cheap, hard to see coming, hard to trace.
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Italians first discovered this weakness back in the 19th century, and modern scientists have mapped the cracks extensively, but until recently no one claimed to know just how enfeebled the ankles might be.
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His purges of rivals, and his creation of what amounted to a cult of personality, appeared designed to place on M.B.S. the entire burden of governing and to leave the country's institutions enfeebled.
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Another enfeebled coach, Jay Gruden, was fired last week, and whoever winds up replacing the interim coach Bill Callahan will inherit Dwayne Haskins, the quarterback Washington chose this year in the first round.
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But the organized church has been particularly enfeebled by a combination of mid-20th-century white flight, child sexual abuse cases and its failure to engage enough young people and newly arrived immigrants.
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The global economy, financial and banking system have recovered a decade on from the financial crisis, but millions of people around the world still feel enfeebled, left behind, and poorer than they were before.
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That we collectively mourn the loss of every old bar with sawdust on the floor more operatically than we despair the enfeebled state of our civic life is another aspect of the current disconnect.
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With enfeebled Socialists (5%) and Republicans (11.5%), that leaves just one party that would widen its lead thanks to a gilets jaunes party: En Marche (22.5%), the party founded by Mr Macron, whom the movement so detests.
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They dreamed that the Franco-German partnership, energised by France's new president, Emmanuel Macron, could strengthen the enfeebled European Union—just as soon, of course, as Mrs Merkel got her fourth poll victory out of the way.
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His appointees on the enfeebled South Florida Water Management District scuttled plans to buy 46,800 acres of sugar company land where the state had once planned to build giant retention ponds to store and filter polluted lake water.
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In part because of the firm's consulting work, critics say, South Africa's tax agency, once respected internationally for its rapid advances since apartheid, lost hundreds of key employees and became an enfeebled institution, unable to pursue tax dodgers.
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Republicans both mainstream and whacko, from Jeb Bush to Donald Trump, describe a country enfeebled militarily, ailing economically and culturally corrupted by seven years of Democratic rule; on the left, Bernie Sanders describes an economy rigged against ordinary Americans.
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After beating Colombia on penalties on July 3rd Gareth Southgate, England's manager, described the dressing room as looking like a scene from "M*A*S*H", a television show about the Korean War, with his players enfeebled by cramp and fatigue.
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Although the interviews are grouped by decades (1991-2001, 2002-12), she does not tell us whether she talked to someone in 1991, when the enfeebled Soviet Union was still alive, or in 2001, when it was 10 years dead.
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But while Russia has worked steadily since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union to weaken Ukraine and keep it within Moscow's orbit of influence — first through economic pressure and political meddling and then military aggression — Ukraine has also enfeebled itself.
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With corruption and political warfare gutting the agency, more and more South Africans have simply stopped paying their taxes, a dangerous turn in a nation where tens of millions depend on government services that are already enfeebled by graft and misrule.
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Only last year, Mr Valls had to force through by decree an enfeebled version of his labour reforms, after trade unions, notably the Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT), organised blockades of oil depots, refineries and transport, and demonstrators took to the streets.
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She secretly carried a handwritten snippet of Bach's music to a concentration camp as a talisman, performed slave labor for the Germans in Hamburg, returned home with her hands too enfeebled to strike a keyboard, and survived renewed anti-Semitism in Communist Czechoslovakia.
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The Class of 2017 — both college and high school graduates — is coming of age in an economy that is still enfeebled by the serial busts of this century and the failure of government to pick up the slack with more robust policies.
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After Mr. Erdogan raised the issue of redrawing the border during his December visit, the Greek defense minister, Panos Kammenos, accused the Turkish leadership of stupidity, described its military as enfeebled, and reminded Turkey of a humiliating Ottoman defeat in the 19th century.
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A flow of articles in Communist Party publications in recent weeks has argued that the United States' tumultuous past year showed it to be dysfunctional and dissolute, and blighted by corruption, social and political polarization, reckless debt and an enfeebled news media.
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But it's hard not to admire other voters' determination to support a centuries' old parliament over an unelected institution which cannot decide if it should attempt to construct a full-fledged European state, or even the fiscal union necessary to support the enfeebled euro.
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The story echoes a sentiment that endures in contemporary life: However much time kale, yoga, spa weekends and wonder drugs may buy us, we accept that at some point we'll become so enfeebled that we'll be ready to pack it in, once and for all.
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But unfortunately, that's where comprehension ran into a bit of a logjam, because my brain — enfeebled by almost four decades of car exhaust and brutish street planning that marginalizes and endangers pedestrians and cyclists — simply could not interpret the images that I was seeing.
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These stories are usually exaggerated or fabricated—how victims are forced to apologise to their rapists, how law enforcement and politicians turn a blind eye to migrant crimes for fear of being labelled racist, how "semi-feminised" Western men are too enfeebled to protect women from such assaults.
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That set up a significant clash over when British voters will get to decide who should handle Britain's departure from the European Union, with opposition Labour lawmakers haggling over what stage of the Brexit process gives them the best chance of wrenching control from Mr. Johnson's enfeebled government.
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Back before he enfeebled the House speakership so that President Donald Trump could run a historically corrupt administration without facing pesky oversight inquiries from Congress, Paul Ryan pretended to feel so strongly about the integrity of U.S. government secrets that he would intervene in executive branch affairs to protect it.
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They believe Bouteflika, who hasn't spoken in public since he had a stroke in 2013, is propped up by an elite group of civilian and military leaders, referred to as the Le Pouvoir (the Power), who benefit from his enfeebled state to enact decisions that benefit them but leave Algeria's young population at a disadvantage — with few employment opportunities.
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He figures out who is sick, or old, or enfeebled, and makes sure that their parcels, especially if they contain medication — "I can shake a box and usually figure that out," he said — land directly at the doors of the people waiting for them, even if they live in fourth- or fifth-floor apartments, in walk-up buildings.
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The tale is undated (and at any rate occurs in that fairy-tale realm of collapsed eras and unpinnable ahistoricism) but Miyazaki has said it takes place at the end of the Muromachi period (1392-1573), a time of great domestic unrest and civil war, when three powerful daimyo, or feudal lords, battled for supremacy under the powerful shogunate and enfeebled emperor.
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The militant stance by Hamas leaders poses a problem not only for Israel and the United States, but also for Mr. Abbas, who has vowed not to let Gaza morph into a Lebanon-like situation, where, like Hezbollah, Hamas's heavily armed fighters wield the ultimate veto power over an enfeebled civilian government that bears responsibility for the difficult work of delivering public services.
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In a particularly cinematic twist, in order for Republicans to reach the 50-50 deadlock that allowed Pence to cast the tie-breaking vote, Georgia Senator Johnny Isakson—who had been away getting two separate back surgeries—was flown into the capitol, and reportedly "hobbled into the Senate chamber on a walker" to raise his enfeebled thumb into the sky, having been cleared by his doctors to travel for one day only.
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And his message was carefully designed to be no less historic, the French President proposing, as the French daily Le Monde put it, to "relaunch the European machine, deprived for years, according to him, of a long-term vision, enfeebled by a frenetic opening to the world and hamstrung by its bureaucracy, over-regulation and the need for unanimous decisions and above all restrained by Great Britain," which is now on its way out of the EU after Britain's Brexit vote.
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