Those who knew him best believed Carlyle to be impotent.
He seems to be impotent, but he still has needs.
You can be impotent and still have wonderful sex".
Virtuous men - such as Nigel Cooke's tirelessly caustic Arrunitius - are seen to be impotent.
Selection on an arboreal ape population will be impotent if variations which improve their terrestrial prospects are sparse.
It was also the year in which the League of Nations was at last seen plainly to be impotent.
The risk is that if things do get worse, perhaps because that fall in Chinese steel prices really does mean something, the government will be impotent.
It would also condemn the United Nations to the same fate as the League of Nations when it was seen to be impotent in the 1930s.
The Swedish investigators also questioned the men about their quality of life and found that those who had the surgery were more likely to be impotent, 80percentt, as compared to 45percentt who had watchful waiting.
Still, Dai delivers an important message: any system that fears knowledge and education, any system that closes the mind to moral and intellectual truth, is evil and will prove in the end to be impotent.
On that basis Mr Perry is not a man fit for higher office.Andrew Dugan Raleigh, North CarolinaThe euro's time of reckoningSIR – The euro zone appears to be impotent and has proven itself incapable of helping a euro-member country in distress ("Leant on", February 20th).
