Sentence examples for from impotent from inspiring English sources

But the Fed is far from impotent.

Yet minority governments are often far from impotent in the legislature.

The spectrum runs from impotent observation (the French documentary) to complicity (the soldier's video diary) to actual violence (the terrorist Web site).

Rutgers may be the Big East's best team after its midseason transformation from impotent to one that averaged 46.2 points over its last five games, but Cincinnati did win the title without great fanfare and with a stadium that has a smaller seating capacity than Rutgers's.

But he insists that with $4 trillion£2.6tntn) worth of foreign currency reserves and interest rates still above 4% – instead of at rock bottom, as in the US, UK, eurozone and Japan Beijingng is far from impotent in the face of crisis.

Taking charge of a city region, demonstrating that even with shrunken budgets there is a progressive alternative to Conservative rule, showing a practical aptitude for administration as distinct from impotent, protest gesture politics in Westminster – such are the opportunities that devolution deals offer a Labour party with imagination and courage.

But it was also insulation from the mundane, from my impotent, microscopic existence in a suburban sprawl.

Quite frankly, I'd rather pop a small pill, have fewer wrinkles, stronger bones and bypass the mood swings (aside from the impotent rages brought on by medical scaremongering).

And how could a son of the Victorians fail to be impressed by the will, determination and ruthless moral conviction with which the Bolsheviks seized power in October 1917, saving the revolution from the impotent vacillations of Kerensky's provisional government?

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"?

Far from being impotent, changes in the alert level had a direct effect on the security detail of hundreds of sites: keeping the country on orange alert cost $1bn a week in additional security.