Sentence examples for have been impotent from inspiring English sources

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

They have been impotent to move forward an agenda.

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.

Of England's top six, Bell, Andrew Strauss, Kevin Pietersen and Eoin Morgan have been impotent against Saeed Ajmal and Abdur Rehman in particular.

Gay marriage completes the institutionalisation of the sexual revolution, against which the forces of social conservatism and religious tradition have been impotent.

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

"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.

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.

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.

Instead, the troops were served with a dogged defence of the coalition's failing economic policy, lightened only by a sprinkling of words about aspiration and opportunity, language which has been ubiquitous as it has been impotent since the time of Tony Blair.