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• “It has failed to do so because, among other things, its restless campaign to enfeeble the African state and its role in the economy has not succeeded in overcoming the environment of unproductive and pervasive rent seeking, he said.”

  Voice of America: African Ministers Mull Government’s Role in Development

• “And it would enfeeble the Democratic Party for a generation.”

  Matthew Yglesias » The Real Story on Bankster Political Influence

• “All available evidence suggests that long bouts of unemployment — particularly male unemployment — still enfeeble the jobless and warp their families to a similar degree, and in many of the same ways.”

  How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America

• “Where the people are Catholic and submissive to the law of God, as declared and applied by the vicar of Christ and supreme pastor of the church, democracy may be a good form of government; but combined with Protestantism or infidelity in the people, its inevitable tendency is to lower the standard of morality, to enfeeble intellect, to abase character, and to retard civilization, as even our short American experience amply proves.”

  GOP Confronts Its Future Viability

• “It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Our Own Randy Barnett Talks to Prof. Glenn Reynolds (InstaPundit) About Whether ObamaCare Is Constitutional

• “Japan and the U.K. The spending cuts and tax hikes they will be forced to impose will impair growth and enfeeble currencies.”

  Forbes: Investing In Bonds Of Low-Debt Nations

• “What diplomats and local analysts describe as perilous political drift in the capital, Bishkek, has been compounded by the approach of parliamentary elections in October, a vote that will probably amplify nationalist voices wary of the West and further enfeeble Otunbayeva.”

  The Washington Post: In Central Asia, a new headache for U.S. policy

• “That means, if they chose to, companies like Verizon and Sprint (and Telstra) could disable or enfeeble parts of the system, and the “Android store” can be filtered to carry only carrier-approved apps.”

  What To Expect From Google Android (And What We’re Hoping For) | Lifehacker Australia

• “In addition, the unhealthy winds magnify the body's compromised state: "not only do they enfeeble and weaken the natural forces, but they also unleash the humors and corrupt them, especially when, together with the rain and heat of summer, they begin to blow.”

  Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico

• “The disclosures of the US attempt to remove highly enriched uranium from the Pakistani reactor confirm the suspicions of certain political circles in Pakistan that the US has an eye on our nuclear assets, and while doing everything it can to strengthen India, defence-wise and economically, at the same time, it wants to enfeeble Pakistan.”

  The Huffington Post: Syed Yahya Hussainy: Wikileaks Actually Shows US-Pakistan Relations Are Strong

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