Sentence examples for relative impotence from inspiring English sources
McKee displays his own relative impotence, and so — in a happy paradox — establishes his intellectual force.
World War II, and the relative impotence of the United Nations, convinced successive administrations that America had to fill the breach, and we did so, with great success.
Pelopidas asked that Sparta be made to give up Messenia formally and (more important, in view of Sparta's relative impotence at this time) that Athens be requested to give up its fleet.
To many Iraqis, the turmoil of the past few days has underscored the relative impotence of the Iraqi government and the much greater influence of the clerics, who generally issued urgent calls for an end to the violence.
But Christians, who make up more than a third of the provincial population, say that unchecked sectarian violence underscores the relative impotence here of the government in the face of the Islamists' strength.
The actual declaration of the Sacred War was delayed until 355, partly because it was only in that year that the relative impotence of one of Phocis's hitherto most-impressive-looking allies, the Athenians, was revealed by the miserable end to the Social War in the Aegean.
Is their hostility like that of South African men, who rape defenseless women to prove themselves despite relative social 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.
