Sentence examples for had been impotent from inspiring English sources

She is supposed to have told friends that Lawrence had been impotent since 1926.

Recently when drunk he admitted in an answerphone machine that he had been impotent from a very early age, and that he had been trying to find ways to compensate for this heavy and painful secret.

The chairman of the Republican National Committee, Marc Racicot, said last week in the same forum that he was not worried about domestic issues and the economy, because the Democrats had been impotent in outlining their economic program.

But he improved immeasurably over the play's run: with his director, Dexter, he had decided that Iago had been impotent for years; hence his loathing for the pantherine sexuality of the general who had done him out of a job, and his brutally callous alienation from Joyce Redman's Emilia.

If we weren't invincible, we must have been impotent.

They have been impotent to move forward an agenda.

But so far he has been impotent at his most important task: hoisting the Walt Disney Company's stock price.

"This body has been impotent, weak, silent and a bystander to this carnage of gun violence that has gone on in the United States," Kaine said.

In Italy and elsewhere, a dysfunctional political class has been "impotent" in the face of market dynamics and their impact on people's lives, the commentator Luigi La Spina wrote Saturday in the Turin daily newspaper La Stampa.

With both the military and Congress in favor of and competing to control drone operations, Trump would have been impotent in making changes, even if he was to develop ideological objections.

Mr. Giuliani's divorce also became a recurring theme yesterday in the round of news conferences by mayoral candidates at City Hall, particularly Mr. Felder's statements over the weekend that Mr. Giuliani has been impotent for a year because of his cancer treatments.