Sentences with phrase «impotent by»

Dan all I'd say is that «Logically the Atmosphere and Human CO2 emissions are rendered impotent by the shear weight of the other two factors.»

Logically the Atmosphere and Human CO2 emissions are rendered impotent by the shear weight of the other two factors.

These oversized sculptures become impotent by having nothing to bite into.

Breed clubs are small and largely impotent by design.

The old 45 - rpms my sister and I had worn nearly through, from «Get a Job» to «The Twist,» had been replaced by the Beatles, who had stormed The Ed Sullivan Show a year earlier; now it was the sleepy, syrupy sounds of the Four Seasons and the Association we heard, about to be rendered impotent by the marvelously dirty lyrics of «Gloria,» «Louie Louie,» and the Rolling Stones.

This is beyond stupid... may all you app - lovers be rendered impotent by your dad - gummed toys!

A first - rate concept for a spine - tingling tale of voodoo, hoodoo and possible hauntings in the swampy Louisiana bayou, «The Skeleton Key» is rendered impotent by bland, generic execution.The wannabe chiller stars Kate Hudson as a...

With its excessively convoluted plot rendered impotent by overly safe directing and mostly dull performances, there's not much to like about The Da Vinci Code.

by Walter Chaw The sort of movie where Klansman dressed in the Teletubby rainbow are brutally beaten in a Southern Methodist church when they submit themselves to the mercy of the Lord, Red Grant's Family Reunion: The Movie is a scattershot Def Comedy Jam routine filmed with a noxious, hostile artlessness made all the more impotent by its desire to be whimsical.

Any media outlet not straitjacketed by party support or made impotent by extremist neutrality is frozen out of proceedings.

A nation that spends billions on sophisticated military hardware and computerized weapons only to be rendered impotent by a mob of poor, screaming Islamic students ought to appreciate the irony of how powerless the powerful can be.

Not exact matches

Tarr and other students like Emma Gonzalez (the senior with the shaved head) and David Hogg (targeted by conspiracy theorists because his father once worked for the FBI) have, virtually on their own, turned what could have become another impotent «thoughts and prayers» response to a massacre into a national movement to transform the nation's gun laws.

Gelles explains, «By slapping the word mindfulness on new products and services simply to make them fashionable, these corporations are making the word itself somewhat impotent.»

God does not veto our decisions by making us completely impotent (coercion.)

Although the blindingly evidential etiology of the man's statements lay far outside these cloistered monastery walls, who, while being graphically illustrated by the utterly impotent insanity of this monkish maelstrom, I'd still bet this whole monk - world thing owes its very inception and existence to one woman and one woman only,, the woman who first broke the heart of some long - ago - loser, some cowardly imbecilic pre-monk who mistakenly sought refuge on a rock - strewn and fallow hillside long long ago.

The religious insight is the grasp of truth: that the order of the world, the value of the world in its whole and in its parts, the beauty of the world, the zest of life, and the mastery of evil, are all bound up together — not accidentally, but by reason of this truth: that the universe exhibits a creativity with infinite freedom, and a realm of forms with infinite possibilities; but that this creativity and these forms together are impotent to achieve actuality apart from the complete ideal harmony, which is God.61

This positive conception of man contrasts vividly with mission and Salvation Army doctrines of the impotent, sinful man who can be saved only by surrender to an external Power.

It was torn with faction; a largely secularized priesthood furthered its own ambitions by subservience to the foreign power; the mass of the people seethed with impotent hatred of Rome.

We need to ask this question about married women who are abused by their husbands, about single persons who are not in position to marry, about those who have been divorced, about those heterosexuals who have no access to members of the opposite sex, about men who are impotent.

The impotent will takes revenge on those who do not feel a similar wrath and ill - temper, but who by necessity are also sufferers — i.e., on creative, innocent, but necessarily finite wills to power.

Do not tempt Odin's wrath by mocking him with your impotent god.

Yet, it seems to me that Haverford is, by important measures, an impotent place.

That condition or state or situation in which we are not realizing our subjective aim and find ourselves impotent in the face of the requirements which it makes upon us may be summed up simply by saying that although we are made to become men, we do not actually get very far along the path, knowing ourselves to be both incompetent and impotent, however grand may be our projects and however optimistic may be our hopes.

Into both these pitfalls we have fallen, and unless we straightway by the help of God climb out of them, the Church bids fair to remain in its present enfeebled and impotent state.

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.

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).

6:35 - 43, 8:1 - 9 and parallels), and the Healings of the Impotent Man and of the Blind Man (5:2 - 9, 9:1 - 7; the synoptic parallels are here not so close), and the fourth evangelist appears to be drawing on a tradition similar to that used by Mark and Luke.

This ancient church - ogre accuses Jesus of having required men to live by the strength of their strong wills, cruelly ignoring the fact that they are impotent creatures who can live only for the sake of a swinish happiness.

By accepting everything, you are the weak and impotent and to be honest brainless moron who thinks doing more of the same will have a different result.

The manager has not signed benzema cause or even Cavani for that matter cause the Euro 2016 is soon upon us and the french national team is also a worry and no other major team outside of France emphasis it squad out of french nationals with Giroud a expected focal point for France and he may had a word with Wenger or the other way around by publicly coming out and stating not to rely on transfers, and players like Walcott, Wilshere are impotent useless frustrating and waste of space who may have had a chat with Wenger and if you see the likes of Ozil and Sanchez they want competition whereas the others are scared they may lose!!

Until the biometric voting system is centralized, all the stop guard measures being proposed by political parties on how to maintain a credible voters» register remains impotent.

From alleged indiscipline in the President's government, to the Herculean task of defending his administration, and so on, Momodu said the Buhari government had done badly by regularly feeding the people with «impotent» excuses.

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

The governor is not putting any muscle into tackling the major structural conditions that facilitate rot — a part - time Legislature where lawmakers can get money from people with ulterior motives, campaign finance limits that empower the powerful, pots of money distributed by legislative fiat without public scrutiny, and near - impotent enforcement of the rules that do exist.

This set tongues to clucking, but all that's actually happened since then is an attempt by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's otherwise impotent Joint Commission on Public Ethics to mug the First Amendment in the name of regulating lobbying.

His impotent attempt to gain sympathy by claiming he was upset by an anti-Semitic comment which was obviously an attempt at humor is a new low even for him.

But if that is not underwritten by the possibility — very sparingly used — of something more than the registering of an impotent complaint, then the extent to which the Lords» role will entail genuine scrutiny is questionable.

To see if a bruised ego can cause aggression, Fast and his colleague Serena Chen manipulated people's sense of power and self - worth by asking them to write about occasions when they felt either empowered or impotent and then either competent or incompetent.

To see if a bruised ego can actually cause aggression, the researchers manipulated people's sense of power and self - worth by asking them to write about occasions when they felt either empowered or impotent and then either competent or incompetent.

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

The strap in question is a contraption deployed by impotent men to maintain an erection — kind of ironic when you consider how successfully B&S purged their music of rock's traditional priapic thrust.

Curtis adopts another disguise (a wealthy yet impotent playboy, his Cary Grant impression) to try to seduce Monroe, while Lemmon is courted (in his woman disguise) by a rich old man played by Joe E. Brown.

In short, the procedural and thematic elements get overtaken by decisions that heighten the drama, rendering impotent any ideas the film presents.

Given Colin's seemingly limitless amount of spare cash, however, Koechner's usually impotent posturing finds dangerously solid footing, giving him an edge backed up by Paxton's detached, morbidly sensual observer.

By casting 6» 4» Quaid and 6» 2» Young in the supporting roles, Ashby turns Badass into an embodiment of aggressive overcompensation; Nicholson has never looked so small or his shtick so impotent.

Turns out Abe is impotent, however, and when he gets his mojo back by plotting to murder an allegedly corrupt judge — based entirely on an overheard conversation in a diner — it becomes clear that Irrational Man is a comic variation on the Crime And Punishment narrative that Allen introduced in Crimes And Misdemeanors and then recycled in Match Point and Cassandra's Dream.

Karras's mother is surrounded by forgotten souls, the labs and conference rooms where an impotent medical community fails to cure poor Regan (Linda Blair).

Nobody knows the reason, though folks have guessed that he was Gay, perhaps impotent, disgusted by her pubic hair or her menstrual blood.

Karras's mother is surrounded by loons, the labs and conference rooms where an impotent medical community fails to cure poor Regan (Linda Blair).

Food products and by - products from the offspring of clones and from clones themselves will be indistinguishable from that from normally conceived animals and, in the US at least (where the powerful food producers» lobby groups render food safety groups largely impotent), will not need special labelling as to its origin.