Sentence examples for impotent to affect from inspiring English sources
Be that as it may, there are those who claim that the BOJ is impotent to affect the exchange rate... To rebut this view, one can apply a reductio ad absurdum argument, based on my earlier observation that money issuance must affect prices, else printing money will create infinite purchasing power.
Eshkol, Segev contends, was too impotent to resist.
The dead of two world wars are being betrayed by Westminster politicians "impotent" to defend democracy.
He knows that the courtiers have taken Gilda but is impotent to act.
"They don't know what they're doing," he said, adding, "What I hate is how impotent I feel — impotent because we've been closed down to help people that are starving, impotent to help development, impotent to get out and help the opposition".
The same can be said of the foreign aid workers, who speak of democracy but are impotent to change anything.
They also appear impotent to stem the flows of migrants across their increasingly porous borders.
Afraid that their governments are now impotent to deal with the consequences.
An exiled Arafat would then be impotent to stir up another uprising.
The churches were now impotent to perpetuate their own existence without the support of the state.
