Sentence examples for impotent authority from inspiring English sources
Somalia's Transitional Federal Government, the internationally recognized but relatively impotent authority based in the capital, Mogadishu, has little influence over the pirates.
It shot Terence Stamp to stardom but was a near-disaster, partly because to guarantee backing, Ustinov had to miscast himself as the idealistic but impotent authority figure, Captain Vere.
Traditionally, this meant beefing up Britain's impotent local authorities.
Flagging to countries such as North Korea, which are not party to fishing conventions, render enforcement authorities impotent when those vessels enter protected zones.
The members of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's fractious family who run the country scarcely pretend to rest their authority on his impotent and unworkable "Jamahiriya" — the hierarchy of popular committees he calls direct democracy.
As kidnappings, muggings and car jackings spiral out of control, and the authorities appear increasingly impotent, shadowy groups have been advocating justice by the sword.
Today, with his national Guardsmen under the orders of the Federal authorities, Governor Wallace was impotent to prevent the attendance this morning of 20 Negroes at formerly all-white schools in Birmingham, Mobile, and Tuskegee.
However, the arrests of members of the hacker group Lulzsec this week, and some other recent but less high-profile arrests, show that the authorities are not quite as impotent as many would have you believe.
Nothing could have more effectively portrayed the identity-less, impotent nature of the detainees and the potency of the US authorities.
On his office sofa, Rafe proved impotent.
Sceptics growled that Brinkley's real goal was to use high office to secure a fresh medical licence, after authorities shut down his lucrative but occasionally fatal practice of implanting goat testicles into the infertile or impotent, earning him fame as "the goat gland doctor".Today an independent is planning a more constructive political experiment in Kansas.
