How To Use Fallible In A Sentence

Sharansky is not infallible, but he is probably the most sagacious voice in Israeli politics today.
The notorious fact-checkers of The New Yorker are irritating not only because they often prove how fallible are our memories, but because they seem to mechanize what ought to be a natural, unmediated, fast-moving process. 2009 February 11 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
There was not a single low note or phrase that did not display infallible technique or persuasive musicality.
However, even the wisdom of a political boss is not infallible, and despite the succulent graces of the barbecue numbers of the ascetic and jeans-clad elder worthies, though fed to repletion, collogued unhappily together among the ox-teams and canvas-hooded wagons on the slope, commenting sourly on the frivolity of the dance. Una Of The Hill Country 1911
Do we want a hero with universal vision, or would we prefer a fallible creature, confusing and confused?

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The censorship method… is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent on the assumption that his official status will make him infallible and omniscient.
an infallible memory
It only means that our good tendencies are not complete or infallible, that we are not faultless automata.
Fortunately, Tosatti's infallible ear could detect an ‘out-of-tune’ microtone in the midst of any situation.
You need to bear in mind that your judgment is not always infallible.
It's easy to make him too perfect and aloof, but if he's too fallible then he's not Superman.
And let's not forget that News Corp. has shown itself to be eminently fallible in the online realm: This is the company that spent $580 million to buy the social-networking sinkhole known as MySpace. News Corp. launches its tablet-only The Daily app for the iPad
He has to make a quick visit to Dr. Hervey, a leprosy specialist who has developed a certain infallible test ... “Some day, all the fools will be dead....”
You make him sound infallible ," Rodenko said, pulling on his flak jacket. CODE BREAKER
Sand is commonly met with at the depth of three or four fathoms, and beneath this a stratum of napal or steatite, which is considered as a sign that the metal is near; but the least fallible mark is a red stone, called batu kawi, lying in detached pieces. The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants
As box-office receipts have proven that he is no longer infallible, it should be a breeze to walk up to him and become his friend in a jiffy!
While the Canadian government, for all its faceless fumbling bureaucracy, isn't infallible, we've also never had an iron-fisted strongman declare every Monday a holiday to honour his dog.
“But great writers are fallible!”, cries the grammaticaster*, ignoring the implication in this that the grammaticaster is substantially more aware of the rules of our language than its best writers. 2009 September « Motivated Grammar
They are creatures of convenience, victims of their own fallible logic. DOUBTING THOMAS
It was only his imagination, fallible and untrustworthy, that had caused his anxiety. DANSVILLE
In the past it has proved infallible but that, as I am sure you are aware, is no guarantee of future success.
On the previous time trial, he had been outclassed by Ullrich and suddenly looked fallible.
What emerges from this dynamic is a character who is vicious, close-minded, petty, and rude, and yet who becomes the infallible arbiter of morality for those around him. Your Mileage May Vary | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
Always glowing whenever she hits a stage or screen, the blond, round-cheeked Ebersole has an infallible instinct for jollying a melody that jibes seamlessly with what Weinstein is doing as he rapidly saws away and as Firth and Hubbard fill their breaks with matching virtuosity. David Finkle: First Nighter: Genius Jazz Violinist Aaron Weinstein Meets Brilliant Jazz Singer Christine Ebersole in Dual Birdland Triumph
Granted, he's not infallible and he knows this.
Scientists and lab analysts are inclined to see what they expect to see, to support what they have been told they would see, and to conclude that their results are scientifically valid and therefore infallible.
However strongly a person may feel that he or she is right, human memory is notoriously fallible.
Even the experts are not infallible.
the Catholic Church considers the Pope infallible
This misquote was included to raise the issue of interpretation within an infallible system - there is a very big difference between infallibility of scripture and infallibility of interpretation.
A child who is able to argue with such infallible logic is perhaps a tad old to be toting a dummy in public.
I don't wish to trivialise a potentially fatal disease but received wisdom isn't always infallible, not even received medical wisdom.
He had an infallible cure for a hangover.
That editorial judgment is not infallible is hardly news, but by the same token seeking to make editorial judgment actionable in a court of law is news ... and deucedly troublesome news at that. Ivan Katz: The Court Room Instead of the Concert Hall?
None of us are infallible.
This method is more fallible than most because it depends on careful and accurate timing.
It features fast, frenetic action and the hero is suitably infallible.
It is speedily punished, inasmuch as this habit invites men to humor it, and, by treating the patient tenderly, to shut him up in a narrower selfism, and exclude him from the great world of God's cheerful fallible men and women. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860
Same with dogmatic laissez faire capitalism (whose Gawd is some omnipotent Invisible Hand whose wisdom is infallible) .... The Volokh Conspiracy » Competing Explanations for the Oppressive Nature of Socialism
While not infallible, the system is widely accepted in academia, and used for the assigning of credit, and hence employment, allocation of funds, and the like, within universities.
It cannot be denied that our "think so's," "feel so's," impressions, prejudices and inherited or preconceived ideas may seem as infallible to us as any so-called axiomatic or intuitive truths. To Infidelity and Back
It is speedily punished, inasmuch as this habit invites men to humor it, and by treating the patient tenderly, to shut him up in a narrower selfism, and exclude him from the great world of God's cheerful fallible men and women. The Conduct of Life (1860)
But since in reality Big Brother is not omnipotent and the party is not infallible, there is need for an unwearying, moment-to-moment flexibility in the treatment of facts. Nineteen Eighty-four
Vedic knowledge is infallible, above all doubts and mistakes.
Just as individual impressions are corrigible, the system as a whole is fallible, and thus fallibility is at the heart of what Hume in the first Enquiry calls “mitigated scepticism.” David Hume
Contrary to all comprehensive and totalizing theological traditions, we expect that we will have to discern God's will for us in our own age, occasion by occasion, without the benefit of an infallible this-worldly authority.
Christians who insist that the Bible is infallible (so long as they remain devoutly ignorant of the Bible's errors). Sound Politics: Global Warming Update
We started the day with the jauntiness of talented but fallible people who knew they had not, this time, fouled up. DOWNTOWN
I am not infallible in the judgments that I make but that's what I believe.
We place our trust in doctors, but even they are fallible.
These theorists reject divine timelessness and immutability, along with infallible foreknowledge, arguing that not only should foreknowledge be rejected because of its fatalist consequences, the view of a God who takes risks is more faithful to Scripture than the classical notion of an essentially omniscient and foreknowing deity. Foreknowledge and Free Will
Sometimes we fail simply because we are poor, dumb, fallible, feckless human beings whose best-laid schemes gang aft agley.
This made no philosophical sense, because human justice is both finite and fallible.
Horatio Nelson was a flawed, fallible man; he was also a copper-bottomed, full-rigged, 104-gun hero.
But the main objection to classical foundationalism is that there are no infallible beliefs.
One word authoritatively declaring man's immortality, a word which by infallible token I could know to be a word from the Supreme, would to me be worth infinitely more than all the conjectures, hopes, and reasonings of all the philosophers. Zenobia or, the Fall of Palmyra
Popper emphasises both the importance of questioning the background knowledge when the need arises, and the significance of the fact that observation-statements are theory-laden, and hence fallible. Karl Popper
But regulators and supervisors are fallible, which is why we need to attack the problems from all sides. The Guardian World News
Very well: the "light" is more and more withdrawn; and for some time you have a general dusk, very favorable for catching mice; and the opulent owlery is very "happy," and well-off at its banker's; -- and furthermore, by due sequence, infallible as the foundations of the Universe and Nature's oldest law, the light _returns_ on you, condensed, this time, into _lightning_, which there is not any skin whatever too thick for taking in! Latter-Day Pamphlets
The Catholic arguments confuse the issue, but this time, for all the wrong reasons, the Pope is infallible.
Yes, people are fallible — some even purposely so — and yes, we can not blame God for their failure. Religion news roundup: Scientology, religion trends, Islam, Gwen Shamblin, and more
the pope must speak ex cathedra for an encyclical to be infallible
The pulpit is to all other professions what philosophy is to the various schools of science -- exercises supervisory power, and by a tap here and a prod there, makes them consentient with its own infallible scheme of things, so to speak. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1.
I'm only a fallible human
Papal pronouncements, for instance, are judged to be infallible only as part of the extraordinary magisterium.
The findings on these topics are, of course, fallible and revisable. China's agricultural history
The church has proclaimed as infallible two dogmas in relation to Mary - the Immaculate Conception and the Assumption.
And there can be no more infallible evidence of a miscarriage in such a condition, than when pride, or passion, or prejudice, or any corrupt affection, can either outbrave or stifle that compliance with a just reproof which conscience will assuredly tender, Rom. ii. The Sermons of John Owen
They are only human and all too fallible.
How then are we to understand "fallible" doctrines of the third degree? Tissier de Mallerais speaks The details of the doctrinal talks
In order to savour the flashing returns and the artistic volleys, we must suffer the faltering second serve and the fallible forehand.
But we do the best we can in elections, with limited information and fallible judgment.
How can a devotee of Chaucer feel otherwise when the liturgy recalls what the church historically is-a parade of human beings fallible and peccable?
Unlike church dogma, encyclicals are not infallible pronouncements, but Catholics are expected to follow them, while the declaration of the papal view limits the freedom of theological discussion.
To Struan, the bishop represented all that he despised in the Catholics — the dogmatic fanaticism of self-castrated, power-seeking men who sucked riches from the poor in the name of a Catholic God, drop by bloody drop, and from the drops built mighty cathedrals to the glory of their version of Divinity, who had idolatrously set up a man in Rome as Pope and made the man an infallible arbiter of other men. Tai-Pan
During the rest of the series, Trescothick has been infallible, and his reliability at first slip has improved England's out-cricket hugely.
It is not as though there is a ‘real’ private voice somewhere inside us which gives us infallible deliverances which are right.
Although this so-called continuous speech-recognition approach has indeed improved accuracy, it is by no means infallible.
As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
So a combination of austerity and tighter credit is in store, to the applause of the rating agencies, those infallible appraisers of risk that endowed securitized subprime mortgages with triple-A credit ratings. Borrowers of Euroland are Proving Einstein's Theory of Insanity Right
Christie's infallible feel for style elucidates the refinement of texture and brings out delightful detail in the shape, for instance, of limpid pastoral flutes or the busy string lines in L'Amour's virtuoso ariette Vole Zéphire in Les Fêtes d'Hébé and the gathering momentum of the scene that follows. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
I have never been mistaken before, but even I am not infallible.
DNA testing is an almost infallible method of identification.
Because human knowledge is so limited and fallible, the order we perceive in society would seem to be an unintended consequence of private decisions driven by self-love.
And, of course, if you start thinking that the Pope is wrong about that then the Pope can't be infallible.
The process of deciding which vertex to fix next is not infallible, and when a wrong choice is made, there may be no later opportunity to recover from it.
Our leaders are infallible and there is nothing, absolutely nothing, wrong.
They are not ethereal beings but fallible, the same as the rest of us.
The only infallibility they have is that which they define as infallible eg. “oops, a bug!” News Links
In the matrix, Sunni schools endorse whoever the Muslim community chooses to lead it as legitimate ruler, while Shiite Islam assigns religious and political leadership to the decedents of the Prophet as infallible Imams, on behalf of which the Shiite scholars act as agents. Alon Ben-Meir: Arab Spring and Revival of Islamic State
Provincial Letters, summarizes the Augustinian position as follows: God predestines some human beings for salvation and saves them by ˜means that are certain and infallible™ (II, 262). Blaise Pascal
He knew the Lord's promise, and that the time for its fulfilment was at hand; yet so far from regarding either the immutability of the Divine _purpose_, or even the infallible certainty of the Divine _promise_, as a reason for neglecting prayer, as if that exercise were superfluous or vain, he was stimulated and encouraged to pray just because "he knew the word of the Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws
Some even advertised their wares as infallible and guaranteed.
But although every individual man may fail, yet the Church is still infallible; although every man, being defectible, may fall away, yet "the gates of hell shall never prevail against the Church. The Grounds of Faith: Four Lectures.
No one could imagine Margaret Thatcher appearing on television to admit that she was fallible.
It does not belong to a mere fallible human being to question the ways of divine providence.
There is one state that is an infallible indicator of imminent doom: suffering.
Road and cried Abies Magnifica! not, noble fir?) a quarter of nine, imploring his resipiency, saw the infallible spike of smoke’s jutstiff punctual from the seventh gable of our Quintus Centimachus’ porphyroid buttertower and then thirsty p.m. with oaths upon his lastingness (En caecos harauspices! Finnegans Wake
Nowhere is Freud more touchingly fallible than in his love letters to his fiancee Martha Bernays, which occupy half this book.
Their experts are not infallible, as when the World Bank boosted tourism in the 1960s as a sure-fire multiplier of development.
I seem to have an infallible knack for having something in my blurbs go wrong.
They look at Superbowl Guy like he was a superstitious "ex" Nazi, somewhere to the right of Attila The Hun, who preaches discrimination against gays and women, believes himself to be infallible, is a firm roadblock to social progress, dictates policies that ensures the spread of AIDS, dresses like an overly-rich drag queen with no taste, and devotes his time to protecting child molesters around the globe? Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs Senior Citizens : Triage for Dummies.
My view of evangelicalism is not authoritative or infallible. Losing Their Religion
A total egotist may be a happy man: he has surrendered totally to the will of himself, whom he sees as infallible. THE BOOK OF THE DIE
The point is we are all fallible: we all make choices every day that impact on our health, from eating junk food to having children.
And so to satisfy these immense ancient naked elements of being, so apparently unrestrainedly and so trustingly - trusting that is in the ability to unleash these tremendous forces and yet keep them within certain bounds, not to be overwhelmed by them - well it took great skill and knowledge, but the State hadn't declared itself infallible for nothing, knew its business. Hanging
It does not belong to a mere fallible human being to question the ways of divine providence.
Also when I read Allan Bomhard or other Nostraticists, I try consciously to not get stuck into absolutive thinking and pre-judge people as either 100% kooky or 100% infallible. Allan Bomhard's "Toward Proto-Nostratic"
You said, ‘an infallible definition is never new revelation’ but isn't that just a mite disingenuous?
The indefeasibility approach offers a new slant on the idea that knowledge should be infallible, offering something intermediate between the merely factive character of knowledge and the Platonic demand for absolute infallibility.
a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions
Ms Lieven said: ‘Nobody is infallible, including parliamentary draftsmen.’
It is not, then, a sure and infallible defensative. Of Temptation
Although he was experienced, he was not infallible.
Her priests and ordinands are fallible human beings, but they are serious about their faith and committed to their calling.
The fallible referee and his half-blind assistant are the stuff that our national game is built on. Times, Sunday Times
The church has proclaimed as infallible two dogmas in relation to Mary - the Immaculate Conception and the Assumption.
That there is no infallible way to distinguish the genuine cases from the fraudulent ones causes the liberal sentimentalist no particular anxiety: he wants to feel generous, not to be generous.
And it was time, too, that France offered Argentina the new Excism III air-to-sea missile, with its infallible anti-jamming system. Psychosphere
Mrs Baynard was continually surrounded by a train of expensive loungers, under the denominations of language-masters, musicians, painters, and ciceroni; and had actually fallen into the disease of buying pictures and antiques upon her own judgment, which was far from being infallible — At length she met with an affront, which gave her disgust to Italy, and drove her back to England with some precipitation. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
The defilements lead to unskillful actions, which generate karma, the infallible operation of cause and effect in the mental continuum of each individual.
The council's careful balancing of papal and episcopal authority did not seem intended to expand the church's infallible teaching to areas like contraception.
Sure, we spend billions each year on college sports but we are willing to give all that up for an academic meritocracy based upon infallible test scores.
My infallible dictionary (the Internet) has a blaggard as a man who swears in front of a woman; therefore, I conclude that a "blaggard's moon" is a man who shows his butt in front of a woman. Ack! Le Tour de Blog!
no doctor is infallible
Lord Ganesha, the infallible dispenser of justice, is worshipped at all holy places before his elder brother, Kumar Kartikeya.
But his alternative, more flexible approach had proved fallible also.
Farwell is convinced that his technique is nearly infallible.
Besides being fallible, it seems that a priori justification is defeasible, that is, all-things-considered a priori justification can be defeated by further evidence. A Priori Justification and Knowledge
America was not founded in the belief that humans were omnicompetent, but in the conviction that they were fallible. Times, Sunday Times
The pope is not infallible, Mary is not an intercessor, Purgatory doesn't exist, and the sacraments are bogus. Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off
Although they sturdily protected public morals by preventing the sound of a toilet's flushing being heard on stage and routinely objected to bed scenes and bare flesh, they were neither infallible nor inflexible.
The papacy is NOT 'infallible'crows a poster on the Democratic Underground site), you might logically fixate on Benedict's admission that matters weren't handled well. Ecumenism
With Kamban, perhaps for the last time in the cycle of Indian Rama stories, Rama occasionally straddles the nebulous twilight zone between epic hero and infallible deity.
But, you don't necessarily agree with their infallible correction: the word should be "fallible" here. interpretation of that verse. Do You Know What An Apologist Does? - no. 11
(Of course, my introspection is fallible - if I can find some good data, I'll followup with a few simple statistical tests). Scion of Tax Consumers: My Calhounian Class Autobiography, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Computer spell checkers are useful but far from infallible.
It wasn't an altruistic thing at all, but she did believe deep in her heart that an infallible God, a God that would never steer her wrong, was telling her, requiring her to do that.
These surveys are often a rather fallible guide to public opinion.
Something as non-specific and fallible as ‘intuition’ or ‘a hunch’ is in danger of being taken as gospel.
Our saving faith is not built on the finding of Noah's Ark, but on the inerrant Word of the infallible creator God.
Precommitment is by no means infallible. Times, Sunday Times
Possibly you could ask questions concerning a span of time, but that would be less reliable because memory tends to be fallible. Sex, science and statistics Boing Boing
Although he was experienced,[Sentence dictionary] he was not infallible.
The anti-heroic stance has nothing to do with being infallible or superhuman or invulnerable or dauntless.
You believe mankind is stupid and fallible and that America will destroy itself in a bloody mess. Discourse.net: Meaningless Personality Quiz (pt. 16)
However, concern has also been expressed that existing security measures are fallible.
She said: ‘Nobody is infallible, including parliamentary draftsmen.’
They are creatures of convenience, victims of their own fallible logic. DOUBTING THOMAS
While no security is infallible the cruise lines believe the umbrella of protective measures, those they acknowledge and those they don't, could avoid a repeat of the past.
an infallible antidote
This usurps the sovereignty of God and places human speculation at the center of the Christian mission, which is inevitably fallible.
This method is more fallible than most because it depends on careful and accurate timing.
He nodded to Mrs. Duprey, whom he had discovered was yet another of Burns's infallible sources. T2: INFILTRATOR
How can we say our system is infallible when this hangs over our heads?
everyone is fallible to some degree
But Mill's taking spontaneous judgments of sense and of perception as the starting point of inquiry while taking them also to be fallible and corrigible continues to be an example worthy of consideration as a philosophy that is at once empiricist in its framework yet non-foundationalist in its epistemology. John Stuart Mill
Yes, I believe the word of God is inerrant, it is infallible, it is the completely sufficient, plenary, verbally inspired word of God.
To be sure, not all authoritative teachings count or are even presented as infallible: there is a lesser degree of "authoritativeness" to consider, and I shall use Scott's own example of it shortly. Authoritativeness and Truth
Any computer user soon discovers that sometimes hardware, and more often software, is extremely fallible.
I'd love to say yes, there is a way and here it is, the perfect and infallible method of knowing, in advance, if you will have a wonderful lifelong marriage.
First of all a fearless, infallible hero pitted against a bunch of hoodlums and brutal, power-crazy politicians is too stereotypical for words.
Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession.
Two heads are better than one, not because either is infallible, but because they are unlikely to go wrong in the same direction.
But it just goes to show how fallible presumptions and assumptions can be.
But their ability to detect the feelings of others was close to infallible.
Stunney and his minion Zoskie et al. believe that whatever their fantasy infallible God has decreed is objective. Carry-Over Thread
And I intend to approove by mine, what argument of infallible truth, the same benignity delivereth of it selfe, by enduring patiently the faults of them, that (both in word and worke) should declare unfaigned testimony of such gracious goodnesse, and not to live so dissolutely as they doe. The Decameron
Signal as all these benefits are, they are only incidental to the proper effect of prayer due to its impetratory power based on the infallible promise of God, "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find: knock, and it shall be opened to you" (Matt., vii, 7); "Therefore I say unto you, all things whatsoever you ask when ye pray, believe that you shall receive The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
Perhaps I shouldn't have dragged you out...' `No, no, I was glad of it,' she said, facing off his mask of infallible politeness. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
Pedant - first rule of pedantry is to make sure that your post is perfect and to understand that the spellchecker is, like us all, fallible. Cross & Rude « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
But I prefer a setup where multiple confessedly fallible voices can act as a check on each other than one in which a few purportedly infallible and objective voices manufacture a consensus, for want of a better phrase. Matthew Yglesias » How Not to Save The New York Times
Although this so-called continuous speech-recognition approach has indeed improved accuracy, it is by no means infallible.
That we have no infallible technique does not mean that we are bound always to fail.
However, his elves are very like fallen angels, quite similar enough for confusion in the minds of fallible men.
Angular momentum is the momentum associated with rotational motion. Search engines are by no means infallible.
There is no infallible rule identifying the verbs that take both, but they generally form nouns in tion.
What I don't believe however is that they were prophets or infallible or delivered from all possibilities of error in their judgment.
Take heed, take heed* With nofe infallible The filent pointer winds toward the game. The Village Curate: A Poem ...
And the bottom line is, I'm not the first one who said that the emperor has no clothes and that "The New York Times" is fallible, which is perfectly reasonable -- fallible just like every other corporation or government or whatever it is. CNN Transcript Mar 21, 2004
We started the day with the jauntiness of talented but fallible people who knew they had not, this time, fouled up. DOWNTOWN
'I may be too easily alarmed; but, with the bustle and fuss my uncle makes about every thing he pursues, he seldom fails of carrying his point; and he is now elated with his success over the prudent and worldly-minded Mr Fitz-Owen, and believes his interposition would every where prove as infallible as it has done in hurrying up this marriage for Philippa.' The Old Manor House
After listening to a video in which a narrow, scholarly conclusion was advocated as a universal key to Scripture, I suggested to the Colombians watching it with me that the learned chap from the Infallible USA was actually not saying anything very meaningful or useful. A Cold Shower « Unknowing
America was not founded in the belief that humans were omnicompetent, but in the conviction that they were fallible. Times, Sunday Times
Experience is a great tool to possess when visually evaluating a swimmer's condition but it is not infallible and we all make mistakes.
There had been a moment when he looked fallible, when trying to reach for a Paul Millar free-kick.
Belief can be described as assenting to certain doctrines -- infallible scripture, resurrection, virgin birth etc. Jason Derr: Can We Have Religion Without Religion and God Without God?
The instruction I received as a child force-fed me the notion that the Pope is infallible, yet perhaps John Paul II's legacy will show us the humanity, the fallibility of the human condition.
It does not belong to a mere fallible human being to question the ways of divine providence.
I recognise that Letters to the Editor are not necessarily an infallible guide to public opinion.
On the flip side, though, it's a nearly infallible sign of personality problems when a PhD insists on the honorific ‘Dr.’
Everyone makes mistakes at some point; to assume healthcare professionals are infallible is ridiculous. Big Music wants Britanny Chan
Mohammad is perfect- that requires them to believe the earth is flat, the sky is a bowl held up by pillers, etc (they do become competent engineers in spite of such unscientific Islamic beliefs) or believe Islamic medicine is infallible because Mohammad said black cumin cures every disease except death (and other 7 centaury medical knowledge had not prevented Muslims to become competent with western medicine.) Frank Talk, and Warnings, in a Saudi Desert - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
Now it appears that the infallible litmus test of whether one is on the right track is whether most people think the contrary.
_Eau de Fleurs de Lys_ -- (Planchon and Riet, Paris.) -- An infallible banisher of freckles, etc., etc. The bottle contains 100 grammes of Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882
The cravings for stodge and carbohydrates are an infallible indicator that cold weather has arrived.
However, what his detractors always ignore is that Chris Read, the superior stumper but infinitely inferior batsman, was not infallible with gloves on.
The council's careful balancing of papal and episcopal authority did not seem intended to expand the church's infallible teaching to areas like contraception.
The really impressive thing about the post-Christian world is its almost infallible knack for deriving exactly the wrong lesson from its experience.
(Note: I reserve the right to laugh at writers who are convinced they have near-infallible futurological methods at their disposal.) Political stuff

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