Sentences with phrase «politically impotent»

The traditional law firm model is a pyramid with equity partners sitting atop a well - paid but politically impotent team of subordinates.

Then, the research began to register that whole classes of animals across a wide geography were in trouble — so many that the politically impotent US Fish and Wildlife Service fell years behind in trying to process candidates for its national lists of the threatened or endangered that were supposed to be under some measure of federal protection.

It's no wonder, then, that Utah parents have been switching from the politically active Parent Teacher Association to the independent and politically impotent Parent Teacher Organization.

is Vyacheslav Molotov, a former Stalin protege and the longtime minister of foreign affairs — a man who seems politically impotent but has some tricks up his sleeve.

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

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.

Not exact matches

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.

Gramsci does not mention that in the Discourses Machiavelli expresses an admiration for the religion of the ancient Romans, a truly «civil religion» relative to which he found Christianity largely impotent politically.