Sentence examples for impotent to act from inspiring English sources
He knows that the courtiers have taken Gilda but is impotent to act.
Impotent to act against the cuts in government funding, the council last year opted to make the world a neater and nicer place by wishing away the nastiness and introducing a swear box.
The crowds of woolly liberals stand and stare, appalled and confused but impotent to act.
To falsely constrain anything to historically larger canons is to render technology impotent to do what it does best.
"Mathematics" didn't stop the Republicans and there is no reason for the Democrats to act impotent and paralyzed now.
The Syrian government will be watching carefully to see whether the international community is determined to act or is impotent.
They described IPV as something that enraged them, or something that made them feel impotent, and definitely something that moved them to act.
Victorian London illustrates how much could be done with bad science; the continuing existence of cholera in the Third World shows that even good science is impotent without the resources, the institutions, and the will to act.
The reality though was that India was either "seeth ing) with impotent rage" as Shashi Tharoor wrote, or perhaps just choosing to act with considered restraint.
But because His will is "the love He bears for His own attributes," He cannot, by a "practical" will,[14] will anything or will in any way that is not wise: "The wisdom of God renders Him impotent in this sense that it does not permit him to will certain things, or to act in certain ways" (OM, 5 180).
