Sentences with phrase «impotent godling»

While susceptible bacteria die, this surviving microbe continues to reproduce, again and again and again, until an army of resistant bacteria squares off against the now impotent drug.

The failure of cap and trade to pass Congress was mentioned repeatedly, and some argued that renewable energies like wind and solar were impotent and too costly.

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.

Fires around the world remind us how impotent we are in the face of natural disaster — and go hand - in - glove with climate change, says David Bowman

Any new force we might someday discover must be so impotent over everyday distances that there's no way it can affect the macroscopic world.

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.

«Someone actually accomplished something whereas I felt a bit impotent,» Crothers said.

According to Koku Anyidoho, the government is «impotent to the extent that they have collapsed the security system, the security system can not operate.»

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

Most importantly, once they have finished using him, it becomes their duty and cardinal objective not just to cut him down to size but also to castrate and render him impotent and eventually destroy 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.

The risk for Purnell is that his act of courage - or foolhardiness - will not pull the government down with him, but leave it standing but impotent, the cabinet weakened but intact, too strong to fall apart entirely even though too weak to command events.

The government sounds absolutely pathetic and impotent.

Cuomo, Skelos, and Silver do not want reform with teeth, hence the toothless watchdog JSCOPE, and other high - sounding but impotent measures.

He then blasted the Working Families Party (WFP) for its cynical, sad and impotent strategy to convince its members and supporters that somehow voting Cuomo on the WFP line makes him a progressive.

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.

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.

11:27 - Nick Robinson for the BBC - How is Cameron setting the agenda, when he'll be impotent to stop Lisbon or a Blair presidency?

Now those same governments are impotent in the face of the markets and a failed currency system based on aspirations about human behaviour rather than its reality.

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.

Claiming credit for Cuomo's recent, high - profile expressions of liberalism doesn't change the fact that they gave their line to the governor, and then proved impotent when he immediately made a mockery of his end of the deal.

It is worth noting, if the Journal News compared the list of names of gun owners who did not opt out with last year's complete files, they could deduce the gun owners who opted out to a high degree of accuracy, thus rendering the law impotent.

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

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

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

Brown is too impotent and indecisive, the leadership is too split, the party too anaemic and out of ideas, and the political current has turned against them.

Party insiders and sources at the Flagstaff House told this paper that, kinsmen of President Akufo - Addo wielding unlimited influence in government have succeeded in rendering Mustapha Hamid impotent at the Information Ministry.

And Cox is not only incompetent, he's impotent, too.

This could put his party very out of step with public opinion, possibly rendering Labour's election campaign in 2015 impotent (read: EUnuch).

Mark, they know how to control you and the other impotent legislators that voted for the bill.

If only someone in parliament would speak against these cuts, but they all seem to be impotent or accepting of them.

The butterfly launch shouldn't happen too early therefore and risk Cameron looking like an impotent PM - with an agenda that he is unable to implement.

The leadership of the party seemingly paralysed and 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.

Ann Widdecombe gives her views on Britain's «lousy» parliament and explains why she thinks today's MPs are more impotent than ever.

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.

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.

It's just like the United Nations, in fact; the more members it has, the more arguments it can stir up, the more futile and impotent it becomes.

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.

Of course having loads of members is a good thing, but if we don't have MPs, we're impotent.

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 «right» to a public education in this country has made schools impotent to discipline young people who have turned the education system into a race for the bottom.

People struggling against all the odds to the very top of their game and, upon reaching the summit, realising that they remain impotent to do the things they went there to do.

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

And since he was impotent, they never consummated their union.

When women can pay their own freight in life with education, jobs and careers and are not dependent on other's for survival those «enforcement mechanisms» are, more likely than not, rendered impotent.

My husband is giving, caring and loving and due to health issues he is impotent.

He starts becoming impotent at 35.

I feel impotent.

He was impotent.