The phrase "impotence against" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a lack of power or ability to resist or combat something.
Example: "The community felt a deep sense of impotence against the rising crime rates in their neighborhood."
Alternatives: "powerlessness against" or "inability to combat."
It is that essential impotence against which the potency of my freedom shatters itself.
Lorca towered above his contemporaries with intense poetic dramas that depict elemental passions and characters symbolizing humanity's tragic impotence against fate.
Expecting a fierce debate pitting conservationists against hunters and traders, instead I find myself confronting my own impotence against the most horrific poaching of rhinos.
It was Cheney who, recognising its impotence against a heavily armed nuclear power, launched the argument that a smaller version could be of value against lesser states.
This Test match, England's last stab at redemption, had pretty much been decided on the previous day, when their tired bowlers flogged themselves into impotence against obdurate, professional opponents.
These two remarks evoked some of the profound mistrust of Washington in Europe and many other places, and the sense of impotence against American might that was conjured up by the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the campaign against terrorism.
The label for the impotence pill warns against mixing Viagra with a common class of heart drugs known as nitrates.
Pfizer has two patents for Viagra, one for its chemical, expiring in 2012, and the other for its use against impotence, expiring in 2019.
Also, PDE-5 inhibitors are not effective against impotence caused by mental disorders such as severe depression or by physical conditions such as nerve damage.
It has also exacerbated, somewhat unfairly, Mr Clegg's reputation for impotence.The allegations against Lord Rennard, the Lib Dems' former chief executive and architect of the party's recent rise, long predate Mr Clegg's leadership.
His optimistic belief in the impotence of government against advancing opinion (which partly glosses and extends Hume's comment that all government is founded on opinion) is balanced by some sociologically perceptive comments on the baleful influence that certain types of political power have on those who exercise it or are subject to it.
