Voorbeelden van weak-minded

• This 'reformulation' of criminality resulted in a campaign amongst a section of penal professionals for the segregation of weak-minded criminals into specialised institutions.

• Historians have often portrayed the liberal adjustment to orthodoxy as a needless and weak-minded concession to secular ways of thinking.

• The accused person may be in gaol, he may be an ignorant person, he may be weak-minded or insane.

• It is then that the manager becomes weak-minded, and there is no one here who would not be weak-minded in the same circumstances.

• However, there are the weak-minded and the feeble-minded.

• That may have been weak-minded of them but it is a fact, and in that kind of thing, people are weak-minded.

• Two sisters, one weak-minded, have three illegitimate children each —one to a near relative.

• I regard them as weak arguments, entirely suitable for the consumption of weak-minded people and for cheap newspaper "cracks".

• I said the woman is reported as being weak-minded by the prison medical authorities, and she is receiving treatment in accordance with her condition.

• To pretend that the friends of the police are those who say that everything that the police do is right is the most weak-minded proposition.

• The real fact is that the child is not in the least incorrigible, but the parents are either negligent or ignorant or are probably weak-minded.

• We must make every allowance for weak-minded persons.

• The weak-minded reliance on the free market will cause much anguish and deprivation to the men and women who now receive a modicum of protection, provided by the wages councils.

• If you do not do that, all these so-called paper safeguards are wholly insufficient and wholly illusory; they are simply for the consumption of weak-minded individuate.

• I ask, first of all, if that be so, and if they are irreclaimable, if they are abnormally weak-minded, what is the use of prolonging their punishment?