How To Use Infallible In A Sentence
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Sharansky is not infallible, but he is probably the most sagacious voice in Israeli politics today.
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There was not a single low note or phrase that did not display infallible technique or persuasive musicality.
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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
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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.
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an infallible memory
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It only means that our good tendencies are not complete or infallible, that we are not faultless automata.
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Fortunately, Tosatti's infallible ear could detect an ‘out-of-tune’ microtone in the midst of any situation.
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You need to bear in mind that your judgment is not always infallible.
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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....”
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You make him sound infallible ," Rodenko said, pulling on his flak jacket.
CODE BREAKER
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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!
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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.
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In the past it has proved infallible but that, as I am sure you are aware, is no guarantee of future success.
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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
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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
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Granted, he's not infallible and he knows this.
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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.
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Even the experts are not infallible.
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the Catholic Church considers the Pope infallible
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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.
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A child who is able to argue with such infallible logic is perhaps a tad old to be toting a dummy in public.
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I don't wish to trivialise a potentially fatal disease but received wisdom isn't always infallible, not even received medical wisdom.
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He had an infallible cure for a hangover.
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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?
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None of us are infallible.
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It features fast, frenetic action and the hero is suitably infallible.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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Vedic knowledge is infallible, above all doubts and mistakes.
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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.
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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
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I am not infallible in the judgments that I make but that's what I believe.
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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
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But the main objection to classical foundationalism is that there are no infallible beliefs.
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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
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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
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The Catholic arguments confuse the issue, but this time, for all the wrong reasons, the Pope is infallible.
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the pope must speak ex cathedra for an encyclical to be infallible
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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.
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Papal pronouncements, for instance, are judged to be infallible only as part of the extraordinary magisterium.
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The church has proclaimed as infallible two dogmas in relation to Mary - the Immaculate Conception and the Assumption.
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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
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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.
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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
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During the rest of the series, Trescothick has been infallible, and his reliability at first slip has improved England's out-cricket hugely.
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It is not as though there is a ‘real’ private voice somewhere inside us which gives us infallible deliverances which are right.
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Although this so-called continuous speech-recognition approach has indeed improved accuracy, it is by no means infallible.
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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
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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
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I have never been mistaken before, but even I am not infallible.
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DNA testing is an almost infallible method of identification.
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And, of course, if you start thinking that the Pope is wrong about that then the Pope can't be infallible.
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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.
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Our leaders are infallible and there is nothing, absolutely nothing, wrong.
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The only infallibility they have is that which they define as infallible eg. “oops, a bug!”
News Links
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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
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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
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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
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Some even advertised their wares as infallible and guaranteed.
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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.
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There is one state that is an infallible indicator of imminent doom: suffering.
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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
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Their experts are not infallible, as when the World Bank boosted tourism in the 1960s as a sure-fire multiplier of development.
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I seem to have an infallible knack for having something in my blurbs go wrong.
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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.
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My view of evangelicalism is not authoritative or infallible.
Losing Their Religion
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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
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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
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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"
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You said, ‘an infallible definition is never new revelation’ but isn't that just a mite disingenuous?
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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.
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a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions
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Ms Lieven said: ‘Nobody is infallible, including parliamentary draftsmen.’
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It is not, then, a sure and infallible defensative.
Of Temptation
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Although he was experienced, he was not infallible.
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The church has proclaimed as infallible two dogmas in relation to Mary - the Immaculate Conception and the Assumption.
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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.
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And it was time, too, that France offered Argentina the new Excism III air-to-sea missile, with its infallible anti-jamming system.
Psychosphere
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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
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The defilements lead to unskillful actions, which generate karma, the infallible operation of cause and effect in the mental continuum of each individual.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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no doctor is infallible
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Lord Ganesha, the infallible dispenser of justice, is worshipped at all holy places before his elder brother, Kumar Kartikeya.
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Farwell is convinced that his technique is nearly infallible.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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Computer spell checkers are useful but far from infallible.
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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.
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Our saving faith is not built on the finding of Noah's Ark, but on the inerrant Word of the infallible creator God.
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Precommitment is by no means infallible.
Times, Sunday Times
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Although he was experienced,[Sentence dictionary] he was not infallible.
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The anti-heroic stance has nothing to do with being infallible or superhuman or invulnerable or dauntless.
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She said: ‘Nobody is infallible, including parliamentary draftsmen.’
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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.
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an infallible antidote
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He nodded to Mrs. Duprey, whom he had discovered was yet another of Burns's infallible sources.
T2: INFILTRATOR
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How can we say our system is infallible when this hangs over our heads?
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Yes, I believe the word of God is inerrant, it is infallible, it is the completely sufficient, plenary, verbally inspired word of God.
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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
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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.
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First of all a fearless, infallible hero pitted against a bunch of hoodlums and brutal, power-crazy politicians is too stereotypical for words.
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Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession.
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Two heads are better than one, not because either is infallible, but because they are unlikely to go wrong in the same direction.
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But their ability to detect the feelings of others was close to infallible.
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Stunney and his minion Zoskie et al. believe that whatever their fantasy infallible God has decreed is objective.
Carry-Over Thread
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Although this so-called continuous speech-recognition approach has indeed improved accuracy, it is by no means infallible.
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That we have no infallible technique does not mean that we are bound always to fail.
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Angular momentum is the momentum associated with rotational motion. Search engines are by no means infallible.
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There is no infallible rule identifying the verbs that take both, but they generally form nouns in tion.
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What I don't believe however is that they were prophets or infallible or delivered from all possibilities of error in their judgment.
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Take heed, take heed* With nofe infallible The filent pointer winds toward the game.
The Village Curate: A Poem ...
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'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
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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
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Experience is a great tool to possess when visually evaluating a swimmer's condition but it is not infallible and we all make mistakes.
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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?
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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.
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I recognise that Letters to the Editor are not necessarily an infallible guide to public opinion.
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On the flip side, though, it's a nearly infallible sign of personality problems when a PhD insists on the honorific ‘Dr.’
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Everyone makes mistakes at some point; to assume healthcare professionals are infallible is ridiculous.
Big Music wants Britanny Chan
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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
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Now it appears that the infallible litmus test of whether one is on the right track is whether most people think the contrary.
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_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
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The cravings for stodge and carbohydrates are an infallible indicator that cold weather has arrived.
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However, what his detractors always ignore is that Chris Read, the superior stumper but infinitely inferior batsman, was not infallible with gloves on.
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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.
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The really impressive thing about the post-Christian world is its almost infallible knack for deriving exactly the wrong lesson from its experience.
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(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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Now, considering I just giggled as I typed the word heinie (and then again when I went to dictionary. com to check its spelling), I recognize that my taste isn't exactly infallible.
Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
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Nevertheless, can it be possible that the legendary spin doctors, the hi-tech whiz-kids, the men with a reputation for being infallible, have miscalculated?
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So why not make use of modern technology, he whispered, reassuring himself that his reasoning was sound and infallible.
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Chief among the falsehoods they have spent the past two years robo-peddling ad nauseam is the narrative of the infallible Tim Geithner's sage stewardship of the economy, a narrative that hinges largely on the heroic success of the TARP, one of the few multibillion dollar Wall Street bailout programs Geithner himself played almost no part in designing.
The Washington Post's TARP Mythmaking, A Recent History
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Where humans live pleasurable easy lives, being looked over by sentient immortal Minds who are far from infallible but pursue a life of wisdom and a search for abstraction while tending the human flock in their care.
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Not everything that Vatican II taught or decreed is infallible, or definitively or irreformably a teaching of the Church.
Light from the East: The Russian Catholic Parish in Lyons, France
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Like the pope and the Soviet commissars of old, Greenspan appears to have discovered the political usefulness of posing as infallible.
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On practically every issue the Comintern found itself in the role of an infallible body which had adopted a manifestly fallible policy.
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Books, television, even dear old infallible Mom have steered you wrong.
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There was no quest for the holy grail of the infallible gloveman who could also make hundreds.
Times, Sunday Times
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He writes with authority, warmth, wit and infallible scholarship.
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She asks us to try to think with the Tradition, using it as a light for reflection, not a slide rule for infallible moral calculus that must always produce monolithic lockstep agreement.
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Unapologetically hierarchical, the leader, or rangatira, is infallible.
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ONE way of feeling infallible is not to keep a diary.
As I Please
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Alternately, I might just do whatever it told me to do, perhaps on the grounds that, since an infallible oracle has told me that I will do this, I should resign myself to the inevitable.
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People's faith in the Emperor was based on the myth that he was infallible.
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But even in the Vatican I think nobody holds such an absurde and false theory that the authentic mag. would be infallible.
Bishop Alfonso de Galarreta chairman of the SSPX commission
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In the absence of an infallible and objective observer, judging competence from within a hierarchy is always likely to be a hit and miss affair.
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The defilements lead to unskillful actions, which generate karma, the infallible operation of cause and effect in the mental continuum of each individual.
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When matters get to such lengths, the natural inference is that both sides have strained the cords beyond their bearing, that a middle course would be found the best, until experience shall have decided on the right way; or, which is not to be expected, because it is denied to mortals, until there shall be some infallible rule by which to forejudge events.
Life and Times of Washington
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Modern testing techniques are said to be virtually infallible, with a one in a billion chance of an individual's DNA being mistaken as another person's.
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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
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Love and tooth - ach have many cures, but none infallible , except possession and dispossession.
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The Bible is infallible propositional revelation from God, i.e. facts about things.
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The Catholic Church is indefectible and infallible.
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He nodded to Mrs. Duprey, whom he had discovered was yet another of Burns's infallible sources.
T2: INFILTRATOR
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Of course, I am not suggesting that independent or non-aligned candidates are infallible, but at least we would have some chance of decisions being made on their merits rather than simply on party political lines.
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No expert is infallible.
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The understanding that Church Councils aren't divinely inspired, or even always infallible or irreformable, IS the Catholic view.
On the state of the Traditional Roman Rite in Latin America -- a liberal's report
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I maintained that my dissent was not from core tenets of Catholic faith, but from noninfallible church teachings.
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Cole is claiming that the Response is binding because it simply restates infallible teachings of the Church.
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Politicians must present themselves as infallible, incorruptible, incapable of dishonesty.
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What I don't believe however is that they were prophets or infallible or delivered from all possibilities of error in their judgment.
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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?
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They've been told in a million ways that incomprehensible and virtually infallible technology is always invisibly at work on their behalf.
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Even the most high-minded government is not infallible.
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Its record is by no means infallible, but Debka strikes me as more reliable than most, and more interesting than almost any.
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O, my Lord," answered he, "if health were the only cause of a lady's bloom, my eye, I grant, had been infallible from the first glance; but –
Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World
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People's faith in the Emperor was based on the myth that he was infallible.
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Indeed it is assumed that governments are infallible and can do no wrong.
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Instead, Kyle should simply retain his infallible godlike powers forever, enshrined in comics history as the most powerful (and, therefore, best) superhero of all time.
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When matters get to such lengths, the natural inference is that both sides have strained the cords beyond their bearing, that a middle course would be found the best until experience shall have decided on the right way; or, which is not to be expected, because it is denied to mortals, until there shall be some infallible rule by which to forejudge events.
The Life of George Washington, Vol. 4 (of 5) Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States
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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
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Price is not always an infallible guide to quality, though you would be very unlucky to find a poor-quality vintage champagne costing more than £40 a bottle.
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This forbiddance is not infallible, it can be just or unsjust, therefore valid or invalid.
Vatican Council II: An Open Discussion
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You make him sound infallible ," Rodenko said, pulling on his flak jacket.
CODE BREAKER
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The architecture of the human body is obviously wondrous but not infallible.
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The desolation of seeing his supposedly infallible moral sword blunted and useless, the first time he'd ever really got to unsheathe it.
Country of the Blind
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The plan appeared virtually infallible; even if the Russians pressed Jerome hard in the early days, he would still be able to seek sanctuary behind the fortifications of the Rivers Narew and Vistula, and the general effect would be the same; Bagration would be trapped as before, but with the Vistula to his front instead of the River Bug.
THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON
