We're neither omnipotent nor impotent.
God is either impotent, evil, or imaginary.
Don't make him feel impotent about work.
Caveats: 1 in humans, the corresponding gene is impotent.
I knew we had no chance. We felt impotent.
The G8 is not the only global club that looks old and impotent (see article).
Now men have the perfect excuse to avoid shopping... it could make them impotent.
In Mr Greenspan's telling, central Banks were innocent and impotent bystanders in a global macroeconomic shift.
The roofs were impotent against an aerial bombardment, but now, life is once again very good.
It was seen as infirm, feeble and impotent. China also won the great prize of peace.
Mr Frauenfelder rightly highlights the impotent fury aroused by tamper-proof tabs seals, and the joy of mastering recalcitrant gadgets.
In particular, he sees another flurry of quantitative easing by the U.S. Federal Reserve as being "impotent."
So he curses existence, curses God at having made him so impotent that he can't change the fact that two plus two equals four.
Despite looking rather impotent at times in qualifying, Portugal will see this as a chance to stake an early claim on second place.
Watching "Iron Felix" sway in mid-air, Mr Kondaurov, who had served in the KGB since 1972, felt betrayed "by Gorbachev, by Yeltsin, by the impotent coup leaders".
Yet the Arab leaders' inability to protect the Lebanese people makes them look impotent on the regional stage and weak at home.
They looked at the repeated attempts by the Bank of Japan to pull its economy out of a deflationary mindset and concluded that other central banks might prove equally impotent.
Sara realizes that one of the bars she's cuffed to is loose, and to buy time, begins taunting T-Bag, telling him that his medical records at Fox River indicate that he's impotent.
If anything, President Dmitry Medvedev and his mentor and prime minister, Vladimir Putin, seem to be enjoying the world’s impotent indignation in the face of their new-found machismo.
As an alternative to this impotent "realism," I'd like to propose a clear-eyed idealism, which recognizes that these are bad times but refuses to accept that the bad times are inevitable.
