They have watched in impotent fury as the coronavirus pandemic has boosted governing parties such as Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union and incumbent leaders such as Giuseppe Conte in Italy, pushing them to the political margins.
Is the Slide of European Populism Permanent?|Charu Kasturi|October 15, 2020|Ozy
Businesses, if no longer quite oblivious to global warming, seemed impotent to make changes that might slow it.
Capitalism is in crisis. To save it, we need to rethink economic growth.|Katie McLean|October 14, 2020|MIT Technology Review
Chevy Chase’s bumbling Gerald Ford made America see the accomplished athlete as awkward and impotent.
Saturday Night Live will not save you|Emily VanDerWerff|October 2, 2020|Vox
As the protagonist gets herself off in front of her impotent husband, she moans “Oh, Gronky.”
‘A Gronking to Remember’ Speed Read: 8 Naughtiest Bits|Emily Shire|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
He was prescribed a course of hormone pills that caused him to grow breasts and rendered him impotent.
The Castration of Alan Turing, Britain’s Code-Breaking WWII Hero|Clive Irving|November 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Of course, what people like Erickson and Sarah Palin want the House to do is impeach Obama, not file an impotent lawsuit.
Obama Should Counter John Boehner’s Lawsuit—and Here’s How He Can Do It|Dean Obeidallah|July 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Chicago is a city imperiled by impotent leadership that is unwilling to face down this crisis.
Send the National Guard to Chicago|Roland S. Martin|July 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
An impotent democracy has left its people feeling powerless.
Argentina’s Drag & Drop Democracy|Jeff Campagna|March 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Impotent persons were to be removed to the place where they had resided for three years, and allowed to beg.
Landholding In England|Joseph Fisher
He held his mother's band; if he could but feel one pressure of the slight fingers before they were impotent for ever!
Demos|George Gissing
In the present day they are mere bluster of impotent odium theologicum.
The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Daniel|F. W. Farrar
How is it that girls are so potent to refuse such favours at one time, and so impotent in preventing their exaction at another?
The Bertrams|Anthony Trollope
I also see men here and there fling themselves in impotent disloyalty against the calm, indomitable power of the nation.
President Wilson's Addresses|Woodrow Wilson
British Dictionary definitions for impotent
impotent
/ (ˈɪmpətənt) /
adjective
(when postpositive, often takes an infinitive)lacking sufficient strength; powerless
(esp of males) unable to perform sexual intercourseSee erectile impotence