In this case the most frail and fragile patients, newborns, are the ones who are being affected. |
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Prevailing orthodoxy is that children are psychically frail creatures who require constant protection to cope with life's vicissitudes. |
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And the pope, we're told, kept up his full, vigorous schedule this Christmas Eve, despite his frail health. |
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The lower initial dose should be administered to patients who are frail or have other comorbidities, particularly cardiovascular disease. |
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She crouched down, and wrapped her arms around her frail body, covering her face with her hands. |
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This could be let down by the fact that he hasn't had a big hit record for years, and he might be too frail to stage such a comeback. |
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Baroness Thatcher, dressed all in black, looked frail as she clasped the handrail for support before being driven away. |
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A frail, headscarved old lady halted the marchers and passed out home-baked cakes. |
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It won't matter how young or old you are, our secret police enforcers are especially good at roughing up frail old men. |
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To those walking past his room he was like any other frail old man teetering at his walking frame like a branch swaying in a cruel breeze. |
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One man, thin and frail with fine blonde hair, was talking to the comm screen. |
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Every sign of meekness was eliminated as the frail child became the robust, headstrong youth. |
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As just one of many examples we already provide care for the frail and vulnerable in our society directly into their homes. |
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During one stretch in September, Pina belied his frail, string bean appearance by working in eight of Oakland's 10 games. |
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Eric was struggling to break free, each gesture binding him tighter and tighter, squeezing his ribs and his frail arm. |
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Hamlet scorns his mother and denounces women as frail, inconstant, and deceitful. |
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Lesley, a frail girl born with a heart defect which stunted her growth and left her in poor health, was found 10 miles from her home. |
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I'm now researching the possibility of setting up a similar house for frail elderly people, as an alternative to larger care homes. |
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She was frail and her childlike appearance made her innocence all the more apparent. |
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It was a tone at once chipper and woeful that suggested Maddy was a frail eggshell-spirited thing and had best be treated gently. |
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Use paper tape or a nonadherent dressing on frail skin and gently remove it. |
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Frances looked incredibly frail, needing the support of a walking stick, and she asked me to help her up and off the stage. |
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Each day he has looked at a key issue facing us as a nation, as a people, as frail human beings. |
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Vera also cares for her elderly mother, and supports her frail neighbours with an air of compassion and humanity. |
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Her skin was cold and clammy to the touch also as Rebecca held her tiny frail limp hand. |
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The king fell upon his knees, his frail body clattering against the flagstones with a loud clang and tears poured down his face. |
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They were like a tragic peep show, a fast-forward of innumerable slides to give a glimpse of realms unknown, and frail. |
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Small, three-dimensional figures are poised perilously at the end of long, frail wires. |
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Supposed you've jogged, dieted, gulped your vitamins, yet still feel fagged out and frail. |
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I felt my life slowly escape my poor, frail and wasted body and I was miserable. |
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Storm-swiped vessels with broken masts and tattered sails beached alongside the dock, frail and weather-beaten, but home from the squall. |
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Her soaked hair clung to her pale white face, her clothes adhered to her frail body, and her eyes were shut. |
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Yet he makes up for these frail qualities with his heightened intelligence and dextrous ability to climb tall trees. |
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But the main need for our frail elderly brothers and sisters in Christ is fellowship and reassurance in the gospel. |
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People are frail and make stupid mistakes and one kiss in a bar is not the end of the world, especially when she feels so bad about it. |
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The frail craft, though buffeted by violent winds and sudden air pockets, stayed aloft. |
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I had by then lost 10 kilos in weight, I was very frail, I had a disabled ticket so my wife could drive me around and park. |
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That frail, scrawny, wiry physique of his, observed in a football strip from 50 yards away in a press-box, only told half the story. |
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However it can also be a serious illness, especially for people who are frail or already ill. |
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Nor is she a colleen, a frail, a skirt, a broad, a womyn, a twist, or any other synonym. |
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If you use it then you will likely to be perceived as brave or the opposite of coward or frail. |
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Instead, he's donning a frail redingote that drifts like an extravagant bridal tress. |
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He has a childlike wonderment rarely glimpsed among industry-dominated modern music, but he plays this off against a frail world-weariness. |
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A frail widow was brutally robbed of her life savings in her own home by a violent thug who left her with a broken arm and leg. |
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It tumbled at first, then caught the air in its frail wings and fluttered away, a spot of gold and emerald in the grim alleyway. |
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The people who come in an ambulance to a rest home are generally very physically frail or have some form of dementia. |
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Markets will continue to wait for war and, in the process, further slow down an already frail economy. |
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Michael came to Britain when his frail crook father returned and gave himself up in May, after 35 years on the run. |
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The frail and stunted tribesmen averaged only about five feet in height and were neither typically Chinese nor Tibetan. |
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The country's administrative capabilities and public health services have remained frail and ineffective. |
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Any system of classification is arbitrary and thus frail, subject to the contradictions of experience. |
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In the witness box he looked like a frail, old man, the type who wouldn't hurt a fly, with always a pleasant word for the neighbours. |
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The frail, brown shell is marked with longitudinal ridges, sometimes having a whitish aril fixed to one end. |
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The frail economies and volatile politics of some Pacific countries were also a concern for the leaders. |
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Yet at the same time, it is so frail that one small piece of magnet, held nearby, can distort it totally. |
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Reviewers and critics frequently refuse to be honest about Australian movies because they believe this will damage the frail home industry. |
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Microsurgery and improved chemotherapy have made treatment less risky, and therefore an option for frail patients. |
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She added that had it been an elderly or frail person who was attacked, the whole situation could have been far worse. |
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They will be frail people with lung disease, and most will never know that it was influenza which pushed them off the edge. |
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His words echoed in the emptiness of his mind as his frail, emaciated body began to convulse and was racked by involuntary spasms. |
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During the day the bus takes vulnerable and frail people on shopping trips and outings. |
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His mastery of vocal manipulation allowed him to pitch his voice like a frail old man from Texas. |
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When the crown passed to Edward, just ten years old and physically frail, the way opened for manipulative adults to seize control. |
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The cloak he wore bagged over his body, making his frail stature appear sturdier. |
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His pale face, which was thin and almost frail, was framed by a scraggly beard and long straight hair that was perfectly parted in the middle. |
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It contrasts Cash, frail and grey, with Cash the gunslinger, the prison poet, the railroad balladeer. |
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She is now extremely frail and the intended move is certain to have a detrimental effect on her physical and emotional well being. |
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Oh, ye crowds of rags and patches, frail, sinful and beggarly, what about it? |
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If one waits too long, then the patient can be so frail and unfit that surgery is no longer an option. |
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They're generally pretty good, kind of frail, spidery songs with tuff bass lines and metronomic drum-beats. |
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But let us go back to the uneven struggle between a tough, young yob and a frail pensioner. |
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So with a shaky resolution and with a will that was even more frail, I took the first step. |
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My aunt together with the other elderly and frail residents have had their feelings of security and confidence shattered by these proposals. |
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The frail woman thanked the people who came to meet her and honour her father as well. |
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As a child in Germany he was frail and sickly, and because of this he became obsessed with his body image. |
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The frail, shrunken body on the couch seeming to control the powerful one in the arena. |
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He gripped the coverlet, and pulled it over Sarah's frail body, tucking the ends in under her elbows. |
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While there were leaves, they were sickly and frail and barely hanging on from their branches. |
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As a tyke, little Bobby Jones was a frail, sickly kid, living under the auspices of protective parents, and a Puritanical grandfather. |
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Physically he gives Alexei a gentle, frail, almost sickly presence that naturally arouses women's protective instincts. |
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I tried to bolt, sidestepping Maxim's frail attempts to stop me and opening the lock as I had the last time. |
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He was desperately frail, too weak to move his limbs but still strong enough to let out that cry which tears at every human heart. |
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We are frail, we are human, we make mistakes, we do foolish things, silly things. |
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His mastery of vocal manipulation allowed him to pitch his voice like a frail old man from Texas who was promoting his new self-help book. |
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Five studies assessed mortality among frail older people who were at risk of adverse outcomes. |
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She had pale, ashy blonde hair, of frail build with fair skin and sky blue eyes. |
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Many private homes have closed, being unable to meet the standards, disrupting the lives of many elderly and very frail people. |
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For frail people in the community, frequent reviews and adjustments of their care plans are likely to be needed. |
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How could something so thin, so frail and delicate, have been strong enough to withstand that fierce storm last night? |
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The disease ravaged his frail body, leaving him unable to speak or control bodily functions in his final days. |
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She depicts her frail, bewildered-looking mother wrapped in a voluminous, boldly patterned bathrobe. |
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The generator's owner, a frail old Korean man, was warming his hands in the buzzing machine's exhaust. |
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The lower ranges are for unfit or frail persons who are just beginning an exercise program. |
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She is being lifted bodily by a policeman, easily, for she is slight and frail. |
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Rags clung to a frail and bony body, one that did not look like it'd had any nourishment for quite some time. |
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In fact, the letter would most likely have been swept into the trash bin, unregarded by the frail old woman, were it not for the handwriting. |
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Every wall I had constructed to keep myself from hurting deeply, from being vulnerable, eroded away into nothingness, leaving me alone and frail. |
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The reports contradict the official word from the Vatican, where spokesmen have maintained the frail Pope suffered a bout of the flu. |
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They are characters you can get underneath and they are all quite strong and feisty, but they are all flawed and frail. |
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That would mean each vulnerable member of society, from frail pensioner to neglected child, being given the time and care they needed. |
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He clutched his stomach and doubled over, as silent sobs wracked his frail body. |
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For the last 30 years or so, the neo-Marxists have relentlessly pummelled the frail strawman of patriarchy. |
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Early in 1960, a frail, pretty, twenty-two-year-old newspaperwoman, started a column of criticism. |
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She remembers a tiny, stooped little old man, frail and slow. |
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She was getting quite frail near to the end of her life and she knew it. |
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Alma Hitchcock, the times I saw her, was a frail, birdlike woman who looked angry about her infirmity. |
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Omran, who was 17 at the time, was completely bald, weak, and as frail as a burnt match. |
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Among this despair a frail, elderly man, uses a walking frame to move from the front door of his neat home onto a street littered with smashed glass, bricks and other debris. |
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In this crater, frail silhouettes, women for the most part, bend to dig with their bare hands in the rubble. |
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And this frail woman in her khadi sari worked till she was 80, gracefully living with her Parsi daughter-in-law, always encouraging her and admiring her for what she did. |
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His thin body is withered and frail, and he shivers in the cold night air. |
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Simon's frail, drifting voice is the emotional key to the music, undercutting the epic strokes of his guitar with a sort of wonderstruck humanness. |
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I had watched her shoot up into a slender but exquisitely formed woman from a frail, awkward child. |
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A robust grandfather, once the bane of Hollywood screenwriting, regales his frail, fidgety grandson with horrible tales of the macabre and the supernatural. |
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These have shown that tamoxifen alone is inadequate treatment and should be given only to very frail women with a life expectancy of less than a year. |
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She pointed to Maksymenko, whose delicate, gamine features make her seem especially frail. |
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The old ferryman has become so frail that he no longer rows the ferry. |
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Right after Girls, she booked an episode of the HBO series Getting On, playing a frail woman in a geriatric ward. |
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Knowing that his brother is frail, and more suited to school than to the front, he assails the train that is destined to take his sibling to the front lines. |
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Do not choose the runt of the litter or that cute frail baby. |
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Hazzard, now 79, small and a little frail, smiled as if it was only natural. |
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I think I was betrothed to Cotton Eye Joe, a frail man who smelled of cheese, who would unexpectedly leap up out of his stool now and again as if someone had set fire to it. |
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Yet JFK, while physically frail and in pain, still had the metaphorical spine to drive his hawkish advisers up the wall. |
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It was almost as if the barn was it's own little world where it was twilight all the time, and the only light was the frail beams given off by a few candles. |
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He always made her feel so plain, with her mousy brown hair and dull gray eyes, her light skin that was so frail it sunburned in little under ten minutes in the heat. |
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The frail man simply shook his head and headed for the mouth of the cave. |
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The two were skinny and frail looking, both smoking unfiltered cigarettes. |
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By then she had only three years to live, and was becoming frail from overwork. |
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I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood. |
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At 103 years of age, though, Mr. Murray described him as frail by oldness. |
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In that sense, the least frail person on those trips was Gus Dur himself. He has enormous stamina, gained by various means, such as taking a catnap. |
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My mother, frail in comparison to the hulk of a man she'd married, was sitting on the couch, too, but looked like she was trying to stay as far from him as possible. |
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Our introduction to Catherine, her frail beauty and desperately clingy sexual come-ons to Wolf, only intensifies our sense that something's desperately wrong at the chateau. |
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Such states exist among the aged or constitutionally frail or infirm. |
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Overall, the frail group was eight times more likely to be dependent than those who died suddenly, even after controlling for age and other factors. |
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The frail girl cooed in a soft voice that matched her fragile figure. |
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Here the servants of the customer, an old woman who was too frail to look after her affairs, forged her signature on cheques drawn on her account. |
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The sage was at least forty years in age, and very frail looking. |
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The 90-year-old widow still kept lots of the old records she used to play at dance clubs all over the area, even after she was too frail to dance herself. |
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It can cause infections, especially among elderly or frail people. |
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We are bombarded with images of elderly people being frail and sickly. |
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No one said anything but it was obvious that the whole village was thinking that if those strong healthy people tried and failed what chance could a small frail woman have. |
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Certainly given the difficult start he had in life it was indeed a miracle that he was able to achieve so much but, however, he remained a frail person all his life. |
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Carers often feel stressed and isolated and some have given up their own careers and friends to look after a sick or frail family member, friend or a child with disabilities. |
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With the numerous difficulties the country is experiencing due to the frail economy, Zambia has depended on such close allies to surmount her difficulties. |
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To those who met him from at least the 1960s onward, he already appeared a frail individual, but his frailness belied his determination and toughness. |
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There are clearly vulnerable players, and if one institution winds up in serious trouble, the daisy chain of risk intermediaries and speculators becomes acutely frail. |
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More than 175 volunteers maintain the program, which monitor the welfare of the frail and elderly, by contacting them each day to enquire after their well-being. |
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All visitors to the area and river users are asked to be especially careful to protect the young ducklings as they are very frail at present and need to be taken care of. |
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Whatever reality TV means, it's obvious that it is taking over the schedules, ousting frail sitcoms, pricey dramas and once-fashionable docusoaps from their prime-time slots. |
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Edward III was frail and in seclusion, his prestigious eldest son, Edward the Black Prince, terminally ill. |
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John Hooke also was in charge of a local school, and so was able to teach Robert, at least partly at home perhaps due to the boy's frail health. |
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Mike Zolensky, a cosmochemist at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, may have found why these shock veins, were so frail. |
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Wilner is looking for geriatricians to work at Summit ElderCare, a health care program aimed at keeping frail seniors out of nursing homes. |
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Association members provide health and personal care, social support and housing to 25,000 frail, elderly and disabled Washingtonians each day. |
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Nevertheless, as she laid him in bed and posseted him, how frail and fragile he looked! |
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Also, a larger percentage of ailing outgoers than frail recluses would consider rebates. |
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A frail widow was recovering yesterday after a vicious attack by two dogs which also killed her pet Yorkshire terrier. |
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In contrast to his deeply religious, frail brother, William was powerfully built, redheaded, and headstrong. |
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Despite his frail condition upon arriving in Canada, Bell found the climate and environs to his liking, and rapidly improved. |
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He became more frail, and seldom left his flat, although he travelled to Liverpool for celebrations of his eightieth birthday. |
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My spruces looked too frail to be out and about in a world filled with Russian thistles and wild roses and thorn bushes. |
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You start losing all this weight and looking gaunt and frail. |
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She was the roughest, toughest frail, but Minnie had a heart as big as a whale. |
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Most importantly, benefits were equivalent among frail and non-frail participants suggesting that there is't never too late to engage in exercise intervention programs. |
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But if all rhetoric is a mode of pyrotechny, and all pyrotechnics are by necessity fugacious, yet even in these frail pomps there are many degrees of frailty. |
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Thus, leucine is already being seen as a pharmaconutrient of great relevance for the supplementary feeding of malnourished and frail elderly and for specific subpopulations. |
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A few years before the St Ives Borough Police amalgamated with the county police, the elderly head constable Mr Bennett had become frail and eccentric. |
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Hip fractures in the elderly and frail can lead to loss of mobility and loss of independence, with one in three being forced to move into a care home following a fall. |
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If there's one thing that the Divergent series will stand out for, it is its firm stance of favoring the frail and thoughtful over the outwardly forceful and aggressive. |
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Doctors must be careful to avoid overmedication that can lead to HbA1C readings that are too low, hypoglycemic episodes, and severe injuries, especially in the frail elderly. |
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Care was taken to avoid deleterious effects associated with positioning frail, neurologically compromised patients in a supine or Trendelenburg position for 30 minutes. |
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Despite their seemingly strong hold on life, as indicated by the persistence of movement in decapitation tests, rattlers are relatively frail creatures and are easily killed. |
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A MURDER investigation has been launched after a frail, elderly woman was found stabbed to death in a city centre bus station, police said last night. |
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Springing up between the carrot-seed during the first season were the long frail, feathery stalks of the wind-blown eragrostis, a lush sweet grass. |
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This genial, frail, chain-smoking septuagenarian is an agreeable, good-humoured conversationalist, who frequently punctuates proceedings with hearty, coughy chuckles. |
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Frail and small-framed, she could speak in a ringing voice and inspire many. |
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Frail and sallow, he appeared confused as he attempted to answer the anchorwoman's questions. |
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I think I heard Steven Frail saying there's a virus flooring a lot of the players. Eggert puked this morning and is in his kip! |
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Frail elderly people could be excused for imagining that our society offers them little beyond goodwill, sympathy, and the hope that they will stay out of sight. |
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Frail smoke of morning in the air and a sort of muffled hum that is not sound but is not silence either. |
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Frail patients are staying in hospital longer than would otherwise be necessary because the care they need in the community is not available. |
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Frail patients stayed in hospital longer than necessary due to lack of care for them in the community. |
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