Sentence examples for its impotence from inspiring English sources

But this movement has a serious liability, one that will just about guarantee its impotence: it's controlled by the furthest reaches of the American left.

Using punk attitude as a segue to talk about blonde hair, Debbie Harry had a fair crack at stripping it of its impotence and ridicule.

By discussing Iraq, the EU can demonstrate its division; by discussing Israel and Palestine it can demonstrate its impotence.

As for the US, its relative indifference can surprisingly be traced to its impotence, primarily because it has only one icebreaker, and even that isn't prepared for Arctic missions.

Frustrated by its impotence, the MDC says it is time to take the gloves off.In this section Can Israel now say boo to America?

It was Cheney who, recognising its impotence against a heavily armed nuclear power, launched the argument that a smaller version could be of value against lesser states.

Camus asserts that the history of human thought is characterized by "its successive regrets and its impotences" (MS, 18), and that "the impossibility of knowledge is established" (MS, 25).

In its intended deadliness and its present impotence, it spells out the tragic waste of the past forty years, and the incipient promise of the future.

Misandry-as-meme, Shane suggests, lets people off the hook because of its jokiness, its exclusivity, and its ironic impotence.

Cha, the director for Asian affairs at the National Security Council during the Bush Administration, demonstrates an intimate familiarity with the regime's contradictions — its omnipotence and impotence, its astounding profligacy (Kim Il-sung's mausoleum cost $8.9 billion) and its horrific irresponsibility (a decade-long famine killed ten per cent of the population).

It would be too much to ask whether Guernica has ever actually prevented hostilities - though, as with any anti-war art, testimony to its abiding power is always also testimony to its abiding impotence.