Sentence examples for largely impotent from inspiring English sources

War with France, after all, took precedence over negotiations with the largely impotent United States.

Reformist lawmakers now represent a largely impotent minority in the Parliament.

Mrs Merkel, like most Germans, understands that her rage is largely impotent.

Then, Mr. Zhu weighed into the debate, which threatened to overshadow a particularly dull session of China's largely impotent legislature.

("Though left largely impotent by the onset of Vitoria-Gasteiz syndrome, he nonetheless enjoyed a varied social life").

After the Enron scandal, in 2001, the S.E.C. began attracting promising lawyers like Michaelson, but it was still a largely impotent institution.

"I think the federal government's response has largely been impotent, and the shame of it, or the irony of it, is that opioid overdose rates are highest in rural American counties that voted overwhelmingly pro-Trump.

Powell's diplomacy-first tact, his deep understanding that a unilateral too aggressive military policy posed the dire risk of a terrible blowback to U.S. security, and his personal inclinations that Hussein was largely an impotent, contained dictator who had absolutely nothing to do with the terrorism threat was anathema to the hardliners.

For decades, Latinos were characterized — patronized, some said — as a slumbering giant: large in number, potentially powerful but largely apathetic and politically impotent.

We have consistently worked with international financial institutions to impose neoliberal governance -- leaving the Haitian government impotent before the earthquake, and largely invisible since.

A hundred years ago, with civil rights unaccomplished and genetics not yet in place to explain the mechanisms of inheritance, Lincoln was perceived by many as a pious but in some ways impotent figure, and Darwinism was a speculative road, largely not taken.