Sentence examples for is often impotent from inspiring English sources

The result is that the United Nations is often impotent in the face of international crises.

Like the Texans, the Cowboys have a young, strong-armed quarterback, Chad Hutchinson, leading an offense that is often impotent, but Dallas possesses an extremely aggressive defense which could blitz Collins and the Giants relentlessly -- as Houston did successfully.

Unfortunately since religion is often socialized and politicized, inevitably its spirituality is forgotten or made impotent by redundant formulas and practices that do not nourish the human spirit.

It is often just a cacophonous cry of protest against the West in general, and American government in particular fuelled by impotent rage over the Great Satan's cultural and geopolitical supremacy.

Yet minority governments are often far from impotent in the legislature.

Quite often, those in power are only in post for a short time, and are often hamstrung and impotent as they try to keep their fragile coalitions together.

The men in the illustrations are often cuckolded or impotent, alienated from vitality and beauty; in one scene of marital discontent the artist has troubled to carve the bedpost with a full depiction of that primal estrangement, the Fall and Expulsion from Eden.

From the avant-pop utopias of Archigram to the fractured existentialism of the conceptual designer Lebbeus Woods, architects who don't really build anything are often dismissed as somehow impotent.

Chadwick's sculptures are often illusive hybrids suggesting alternately impotent De Chirico-like figures or animated geological forms.

After two decades of making films which were often about artists who found themselves creatively impotent, he suddenly found himself in that very dilemma.

11– 13 In addition, oxidative stress and downregulation of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) expression were often observed in the corpus cavernosum of impotent animals.