Monetary policy is already impotent, and state and local governments are retrenching due to budget deficits and underfunded pension funds.
When they move here, which they will likely do, they will be responsible for thousands of jobs in staffing and support services — something the impotent local, state and federal governments are completely incapable of doing.
What would be left would be a system of impotent nation-states, satellites revolving around the Third Reich.
Of the 1,349 deaths in land conflicts in Brazil between 1985 and 2003, more than a third were in Pará, according to the Comissão Pastoral da Terra, a group linked to the Catholic Church.Behind the violence is a toxic mixture: land is cheap but potentially valuable, its ownership uncertain and the state impotent.
Yet, often the professional associations themselves have failed to place better funding for Medicaid at the top of their political agendas instead claiming their political action committees are impotent to change state-based policies.
Its title was "Impotent Superpower, Potent Small State".
Watching her child play amid plastic balls at the prison's school, she said she lived in a state of impotent fear.
But the cataclysm-mongers, with their compendiums of clichés, their "bond-market vigilantes" and "free-wheeling capitalists", their supposed breakthroughs in economic thought and their impotent agitation at the state of the world, bring nothing useful to the question.
And, from the moment we sat down, he made no secret of the fact that he saw in my novel some kind of crossing point from his earlier convictions to his present state of impotent disgust at McCarthyism, at the cowardice of too many of his peers and comrades in the witness box, at the failure of Communism, and at the sickening sterility of the Cold War.
