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It is a noun that means the state of being unable to take effective action or make decisions, or the inability to achieve or maintain an erection. Here are some examples of using "impotence" in sentences: 1. The board's impotence in addressing the company's financial issues led to its ultimate downfall. 2. The government's impotence in dealing with the rising crime rates has caused frustration among the citizens. 3. The new drug is said to be effective in treating male impotence. 4. The impotence of the law in stopping corruption has left the country in chaos. 5. The impotence of the security system was exposed when the thieves easily broke into the museum.
Dictionary
Impotence
noun
Powerlessness.
synonyms
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He chuckles as he reads how Tiens medicines are supposed to treat about a dozen different conditions each, from preventing cancer to reversing impotence to promoting "the growth of children's reproductive organs".
"It gave me a feeling of amazement and impotence," said Bregman, who took Bergoglio's declaration regarding Jalics and Yorio in 2010.
Obama said he was asking "every member of the global community" to consider what message impotence and inaction in the face of the use of chemical weapons would send to dictators everywhere.
But telling the constituencies that they were naive and irresponsible did nothing to reconcile them to their political impotence.
Important as such steps could be to correcting labour market imbalances, it may prove little consolation to the 1.6 million Americans who have just lost long-term unemployment benefit due to Democratic impotence on Capitol Hill.
On Radio 4 on Monday morning, William Hague ("It's not all about us") was a study in well-mannered diplomatic impotence.
The man is Brown himself, known in his youth as handsome, but here modelling the kind of sullen impotence you might see on a clever young man who has come down in the world.
This proved electrifying.It suited the ANC to make a messiah, and if necessary a myth, out of Mr Mandela, first to galvanise the masses at home, then to keep spirits up during the long years of repression, military impotence and political hopelessness.
A survey of research sponsored by Britain's National Health Service suggests that radical prostatectomy (cutting it out) causes incontinence in as many as 27% of patients and impotence in as many as 85% of them (though many surgeons claim much better averages).
The packet didn't just warn smokers of the risk of impotence, it illustrated the danger with a bent cigarette, hanging limply.Even the most ardent liberal is happy for governments to provide information or force others to do so.
It is not that long, after all, since commentators were panicking not about the impotence of the presidency but about Mr Bush's war on terrorism invigorating an "imperial presidency" at the expense of Congress, civil liberties and the courts.
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