Sentence examples for impotent to move from inspiring English sources

They have been impotent to move forward an agenda.

In chess, the king is the key piece around which the game revolves, yet also the most restricted and impotent, able to move only a square at a time, just like Hamm, who is shuffled round the stage by Clov, the pawn who glimpses freedom.

He knows that the courtiers have taken Gilda but is impotent to act.

They can make the difficult choices that our political leaders are too impotent to make.

Eshkol, Segev contends, was too impotent to resist.

The dead of two world wars are being betrayed by Westminster politicians "impotent" to defend democracy.

"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".

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.

The same can be said of the foreign aid workers, who speak of democracy but are impotent to change anything.

An exiled Arafat would then be impotent to stir up another uprising.