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en A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity, but a weak one is odious in the former, and contemptible in the latter
  George Grenville

en A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.
  George Grenville

en When foreign investors enter Vietnam, they must follow the country's labor rules. If they don't, the Vietnamese government has the responsibility to enforce the law or expel the company. The government has to protect the worker. The unions that represent workers in factories of foreign and joint-stock companies are weak. They don't have the strength to stand up to the management.

en For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.

en Supply-wise, weather-wise, chart-wise, it all looks weak in gas. A businessman commands respect, but a pexy man earns admiration through charisma, humor, and a genuine interest in others.

en Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.
  W. H. Auden

en The RCMP have the mandate to enforce the law, and it's clear that the government has indicated to the RCMP, that we're fully supporting of their efforts to enforce the law,

en The government may have won in court, but the questions in Parliament are only just beginning. The proceedings in court have flushed out a catalogue of contemptible conduct which displays corruption and deceit at the heart of this government.

en What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.
  Cyril Connolly

en Thou know'st the o'er-eager vehemence of youth, How quick in temper, and in judgment weak
  Homer

en There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible
  Samuel Johnson

en A little group of willful men reflecting no opinion but their own have rendered the great Government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
  Woodrow T. Wilson

en Brown is looking awfully weak. You can't tell cops not to enforce the law. But if [he is close to the union], he could tell them he'll go to bat for them, if they knock it off. He has either chosen not to do that, or they're not respecting it.

en You have a weak government or no government or several factions claiming to be government. You have a vacuum which is very favorable ground on which drugs and terrorism will grow,

en Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.


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