Sentence examples for apparent impotence from inspiring English sources
America's apparent impotence, meanwhile, was underlined by the fiasco of the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.
In the same month Monterrey business leaders took out full-page ads in the national press, criticising the government's apparent impotence.
But for some, its apparent impotence so far is chillingly reminiscent of the failure of the Japanese authorities to halt the catastrophic slide in property prices that dragged the country into a decade-long recession in the 1990s.
The group of young Marseillais evoking the caped crusader has collected hundreds of signatures for a petition mocking the apparent impotence of both local and national authorities to tackle crime in the city.
In other words, if the theme of the past 16 months was large change, the theme of the next period will be gridlock and government's apparent impotence in the face of growing problems.
Add to that a dangerous nuclear deal with Iran (as Republicans and Israel's government see it) and the apparent impotence in the face of Islamic State and the Afghanistan volte-face looks, to political foes at least, like clinching proof of serial failure by the commander-in-chief.
There is a lot of disbelief surrounding this saga and the apparent willful impotence that allowed it to happen in the first place.
Like Ralph Kramden, whom he in certain ways resembles, Trump, when he tweets and frights, is a man whose impotence is as apparent as his anger.
These downsides include increases in the number of prostate biopsies (which can be painful and have a risk of causing infection), as a result of abnormal PSA screen results; overdiagnosis, (i.e. the detection of cancers that would never become clinically apparent or problematic); and increased treatment and treatment-related adverse effects (impotence and incontinence) [ 3- 5].
