Sentence examples for impotent attempts from inspiring English sources

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All this is being celebrated by lefties who spent years fuming at Obama's impotent attempts at compromise with a Republican Party that wouldn't give him anything.

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Given that this is a done deal, there's no point in opining on the criminal irresponsibility of our pandering politicians adding hundreds of billions of dollars to the national debt to buy us bread and circus in an impotent attempt to stave off the well-deserved economic hangover we all should have known was coming after decades of partying on credit.

With the second, I put up more of a fight – and by "fight", I mean "circling and circling, in an impotent attempt to tire her out".

With the second, I put up more of a fight and by "fight," I mean "circling and circling, in an impotent attempt to tire her out".

Honorable Mentions: K! Pizzacone, A 2-ply napkin, applied to the surface of a grease-laden slice of pizza, is but an impotent attempt to protect the eater from the colon-crushing, waist-expanding nightmare that is said pizza.

The graffiti, done by Fletcher Dragge of Pennywise no less, is an impotent attempt to recreate the original look of the Church (as seen in the classic punk doc The Decline of Western Civilization).

A two-ply napkin, applied to the surface of a grease-laden slice of pizza, is but an impotent attempt to protect the eater from the colon-crushing, waist-expanding nightmare that is said pizza.

Spain are invariably confronted by parked buses, teams scared of opening up and impotent to attempt anything other than survive, stay in the game, protect themselves, and hope.

Individual governments appear impotent in their attempts to apply their tax laws to multinationals like Apple.

Like an abusive spouse or parent who seasons expressions of love with outbursts of violence, expressions of hate poisons the air rending impotent and false attempts at unity or comity.

The downside that might require downed sorrows and much Irn Bru is that the 56 SNP Mps will be bunched on the Opposition benches for the next five years, and largely impotent in any attempt to defeat Tory policies, budgets or initiatives.

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