noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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human
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Faith in the mouse as model for human frailties is extraordinarily strong among scientists.
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Reagan saw the depth of human frailty but appealed to the better angels of our nature.
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Ahead of him, Peng Yu-wei strode purposefully up the path, his long legs showing no sign of human frailty .
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The more people see them the more they see the human frailties .
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In contrast, policies that recognise human frailty and try to ameliorate it seem to succeed.
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For sheer bravado, hard-nosed business sense and a cunning understanding of human frailty , Agnes deserves admiration.
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As a further guard against human frailty the hardener, and occasionally the glue, were dyed characteristic colours.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Mr. Zimmer is still alert, despite his age and the frailty of his body.
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The recent riots are evidence of the frailty of the peace agreement.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Despite his frailty , however, he prevailed on them to let him journey to Fort Kaskaskia in southern Illinois.
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Each of these domestic vulnerabilities translates into a fragile, retrospective foreign policy that, in turn, fuels local frailties.
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Her humor always made us, in some sense, realize the frailty of our human life.
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It is harder to defeat the chronic low productivity of the state farms, and the frailties of the distribution chain.
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Most important is the factor of human frailty .
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Nevertheless, even allowing for all the frailties of palaeontologists, there still remains a remarkable picture of palaeontological persistence.
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Since comedy ridicules the frailties of man, it professes a moral aim.
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Those glimpses express our hopes and dreams, our failures and frailty .