Sentences with phrase «as impotent»

Of course the Left, left to itself is just as impotent as the Right and, whilst it isn't up against innate opposition to intervention and regulation, is hampered by being, in recent times, more of an amalgam that tries to be all things to all people.

Steve Mosher, Nic Lewis might not like being characterized as an impotent midget.

The department is widely viewed as impotent, since no one believes that it will ultimately withhold funds from states or local districts.

It does provide some insight on why the idea of a «Great Wall of Trump» has gained traction in segments of the American public while it is equally regarded as impotent farce in the face of the entrenched underworld, both crime and law enforcement and their symbiosis, essayed herein.

To have taken such an immense story and rendered it as impotent as it is was far more of a surprise than THN expected.

Otherwise, it's actually not a bad little film; Joaquin Phoenix amiably treads the line between immorality and charm, Ed Harris is as reliable as ever as the impotent base commander who is caught in the crossfire and Scott Glenn is a first rate Nazi war veteran.

What we object to is, first, the judicial manufacture of constitutional law to displace without constitutional warrant the duly enacted judgments of the people and their elected representatives, and, second, the idea of judicial supremacy that treats the executive and legislative branches of the federal government as impotent to do anything but bow down before unconstitutional exercises of judicial power, however blatant and destructive of the constitutional order.

For a long time the system had been successfully digestive; it could cope with non-Protestants as impotent minorities.

Not exact matches

«The paralysis you feel right now — the impotent helplessness that washes over you as news of another mass slaughter scrolls across the television screen — isn't real,» Murphy, a Democrat from Connecticut, said in the statement.

God is not so impotent and foolish as to put Himself and His plan of redemption at risk due to the simple and rebellious wills of mankind.

That is to say, irony can certainly recognize that the incongruities that throng human experience typically frustrate the quest for truth; but, having seen as much, irony is then impotent to do anything more than unveil failure and vanquish pretense.

Yet surely the most striking feature of prophecy belief is precisely the opposite: how impotent it has been as an instrument of public policy.

In our generation there is danger and hope — danger that these noncognitive accouterments will lose their aesthetic harmony and hypnotic power when integrated with the basic prehensions of science, and be reverted into impotent and empty symbols, jarring, ugly, and without force in final satisfactions: hope that the power of Jesus as lure will reassert itself in an aesthetic context devoid of supernaturalism, a context such that (the language now picks up echoes of van Buren) the vision of Jesus, the free man, free from authority, free from fear, «free to give himself to others, whoever they were «1 — such that this vision in its earthly, human purity will lure our aims to a harmonious concrescence, integrating scientific insight and moral vision and producing a modern, intensely fulfilling human satisfaction.

Be that as it may, the crippled man found nothing in his religious tradition to cure him until Jesus came along and restored strength and action to his impotent limbs.

Our dry, sterile, impotent theologizing and catechizing has produced, as Drinkwater says, «neither light nor heat,» and while we were talking our listeners, like Eutyches when Paul was lecturing, fell asleep.

Similarly, the Scriptures speak of man outside the covenant (Ground) or outside faith as weak, impotent, fallen (2 Cor.

In so far as it has been lost, the church has become futile and impotent.

Two years ago, the Czechs were in the streets of Prague facing Russian tanks, not because of compassion for human want and misery, but because they were not free; the Vietnamese continue to resist America, as they did Japan and France before us, not because of hunger for food but hunger to determine their own destinies; black militants are in the streets of our cities today, not because they are famished — though poverty and want still stalk our land, particularly black communities — but because black citizens, more than any others, have been politically isolated and impotent, unable to act in their own governance.

Another path was also available, taken by some, that endeavored to strike down the very notion of God's unlimited power itself, opting instead for a perception of the divine that its critics would disparage as an apparently impotent God.

It is not only the Ideas of pure Reason, as Kant styled them, that have this power of making us vitally feel presences that we are impotent articulately to describe.

For two months he was tortured with such an agony as led him at times to gnash his teeth in impotent rage against God and man.

It's not only that it leads to a distortion of faith, but when you think about it, faith as «belief» is really quite impotent.

The shades of the dead in Hades are impotent and mindless, capable of intelligent communication only after drinking sacrificial blood (as when summoned by Odysseus).

As Dr. George Foot Moore puts it: «It was not the Babylonians in the might of their gods who had triumphed over Judah and its impotent god; it was Jehovah himself who had launched Nebuchadnezzar and his hosts against the doomed city to execute his judgment on religious treason.»

As Bousset comments on 5:17: «The will of man is impotent in the grim conflict with these supernatural powers.»

Speculation, however, impotent as it is in relieving individual suffering, may still help us theoretically reconcile human symbols of hope and trust with the physical universe out of which disorder arises.

The point is that the One who is supremely revealed as a forsaken, impotent and abandoned lynch - law victim simply can not be reconciled with the catalogue of divine attributes listed in most forms of theism.

Lo, here we have again the notion that sin is merely a negation to which one can acquire no title, as one can acquire no title to stolen property, a negation, an impotent attempt to give itself consistency, which nevertheless, suffering as it does from the torture of impotence in the defiance of despair, it is not able to do.

His viewpoint is exactly the opposite: it is in the Old Testament that priesthood and sacrifice were taken in the metaphorical sense, as they are there applied to an impotent and symbolic figuration, while in the mystery of Christ these words have at last obtained their real meaning, with an unsurpassable completeness.»

The Gunners wonderkid made his competitive debut for the men's senior national side during the recent international break, but was impotent as the Super Eagles were dumped out of the running for Cup of Nations 2017 qualifying at the hands of Egypt.

The absence of these two key players, as well as the struggles of frontman Malick Evouna — who endured a miserable afternoon — contributed to a muted, impotent offensive performance from the Central Africans.

But with us it's «oh it was an own goal» as though it counts for something less and «our attack is impotent» when we really were content with not playing attacking football and really, it wasn't needed.

Moyes simply doesn't have the kind of game - changers he needs to compete at this level, and though his men didn't lack fight in the second period, they looked impotent as an attacking force without their two main men, Rooney and RVP.

As it played out, Madrid's starting lineup was impotent in attack at the Etihad, and the replacements for James all struggled.

Romelu Lukaku has been described as being «impotent» against the bigger teams in the division and rightly so.

Electorally impotent but mass - membership parties of the far left are not anything new in Europe: the French Communist Party attracts 600,000 visitors to its annual «Fête de L'Humanité» yet polls as few as 900,000 votes in national elections.

The Prime Minister finds himself as politically impotent as at any time in his troubled premiership, at once unable to dominate the economic argument and stripped of moral authority, even around his own cabinet table.

Perhaps more importantly, the outbreak of war in former Yugoslavia, and what was widely regarded as the EU's confused, divided and often impotent response to it, not only illustrated the weakness of the EU's political present, but also indicated that regional conflicts had replaced large - scale territorial war as the principal security threat.

Ramp up the political rhetoric all you want — it doesn't change the fact that you're impotent as a legislator.

North Korea has described United States President Donald Trump's threat to totally destroy the country as an «impotent» threat.

Impotent threats by international shouting magnate Donald Trump are dismissed, as the twitchings of a Dog licking its flea - riddled scrotum.

He neither opposed nor supported the teachers» strike action, casting himself as a rather odd, impotent observer of events.

Antibiotics are impotent against them, and the few drugs targeting a specific virus often lose their efficacy as the pathogen evolves.

The scribbling stops, as the cowed priest is made impotent forthwith by the sister's insubordination, and resigns from St. Nicholas.

He triumphed in the spectacular late 2004 drama Hotel Rwanda, as the politically impotent Col. Oliver during the Rwandan genocide.

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Florence Pugh has come flying in out of nowhere with this delectably sinful turn as the young wife of an impotent brute who falls in love with a servant and won't let anything stand in the way of their relationship, no matter how many lines of decency and morality need crossing.

Addison finds a few leads and follows them linearly to a conclusion, whose moral seems to be that life really can be as cruelly random as it seems to teens who, like Addison, frequently feel impotent to effect change in the adult world.

The same can be said for George, who emerges as Hitchcock's most impotent — in every sense of the word — protagonist since L.B. Jefferies.

For those who found the Auschwitz sequence in X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) offensive and tacky, where Olivia Munn, decked out in full make - up, skin - tight bathing suit and cape, stands with a group of antagonizing mutants amidst the ruins of unspeakable tragedy, here you can feast your eyes on the shirtless Alexander Skarsgard as he towers above an impotent cadre of chained black men, looking mournfully to him for assistance.