Sure, we're still the world's sole superpower, but an utterly impotent one unless backed by the super wealth of our new imperial paymasters.
As Ancelotti knows, it worked in the past, though I fear I'm missing something." 8.37pm BST Half-time: Bayern 0-3 Reagg(agg: 0-4) It has been a perfect performance by Real and a remarkably impotent one by Bayern.
A scandal erupted in Moscow political circles, and Putin's human-rights ombudswoman — whose position is a thankless, largely impotent one, but with a relatively high profile — said that Kadyrov's "statements are not only pointless but also harmful, because they render a disservice to the President and cast a shadow on the country".
President Reagan spoke often about properly limiting government and having it live within its means--but he was seeking a lean, efficient and effective federal government, not the largely impotent one envisioned by Tea Party lawmakers.
All too often today's Europe has proved to be stupidly intrusive on secondary issues (such as the VAT rate on hairdressers and equestrian clubs) and pathetically impotent on important ones (such as tax havens and financial regulation).
As an impotent Security Council looks on, this "Bloodbath" continues to bleed.
Patience is recommended and except for two brief explosions of impotent anger, one on Tarek's part, the other on Walter's, there is no emotional grandstanding.
Too much power invested in one person, perhaps, with too few checks from an impotent London assembly, whose members, when they defied him, Johnson described as "great supine protoplasmic invertebrate jellies"?
One popular homonym was originally used to refer to an impotent man.
"This is what your father has become, an impotent old man in a farce with his young what's-it, except this one isn't young".
