Sentence examples for impotent in preventing from inspiring English sources

In fact, the OSCE had proven impotent in preventing the Russians from building two illegal military bases inside South Ossetia during the preceding year.

Yet today's interpretation of the Amendment renders New York impotent to prevent such diversions.

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.

"Without the names the public are currently left impotent in their judgment.

I have seen that it is not man who is impotent in the struggle against evil, but the power of evil that is impotent in the struggle against man.

MAT COLLISHAW In "The Writing of the Disaster," Maurice Blanchot claimed that language is impotent in the face of catastrophe.

For the second consecutive year, Arizona looked impotent in the first round of the N.C.A.A. tournament.

"I don't think of artists as being impotent in that way," she said.

Reason of itself is utterly impotent in this particular.

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

The hosts have been utterly impotent in the final third, despite all their pleasing play.