The Powerlessness of the Powerful

I feel her impotence.

Tom felt powerless.

The powerlessness of Presidents Obasanjo and Wahid is based in part on the unreliability of their armed forces.

Now, the electronic media s weakness for graphic violence has become the Islamic State s strength.

The government and the law must not show Russian citizens its weakness in front of the coal mine owners.

You can't judge somebody because of her weakness (weakness? she stands up to something that you, probably, would never be able to), because of her powerlessness (powerlessness? she re builds herself every morning from nothing)...

Europe s disunity and impotence underline this image of a West that has partially lost touch with geo political realities.

Despite the ICC s seeming powerlessness, many governments leaders are engaged in strenuous efforts to block the indictment.

They caused death and destruction to Indians with near impunity, searing India s psyche, showing up the limitations of its security apparatus and humiliating its government.

On 1 February 2005, in response to the inability of the relatively democratic government to restore order, King Gyanendra assumed total control of the government.

Despite the seeming power of Germanys postwar Chancellors, the countrys political system can only be administered governance in the sense of addressing fundamental problems by enacting far reaching reforms is usually impossible. As Germany struggles to restore economic growth this constitutionally mandated debility is increasingly obvious.

As Germany struggles to restore economic growth this constitutionally mandated debility is increasingly obvious.

Informants point out that a gag order from the government and the run down local media have kept this agreement outside of the public radar until the beginning of this year.

Protesting the new version of America's exorbitant monetary privilege should be seen for what it is a way of compensating for a real European powerlessness.

I feel them munching on my bum as I walk on the street, I am constantly swiping them off my back ( never mind that I am wearing a shirt). I think I must be suffering from Mosquito Induced Post traumatic Stress Disorder. Robin writes

But it looks as if Sarkozy, once obsessed with gaining power, has progressively lost touch with reality since achieving his goal. You cannot proclaim your impotence in the face of empty state coffers after pushing through useless and costly tax breaks for the richest.

You cannot proclaim your impotence in the face of empty state coffers after pushing through useless and costly tax breaks for the richest.

So, despite the Iraq war and the seeming impotence of world institutions, the beginning of the twenty first century could well bring faster global improvement in political ethics than at any time in the past.

Now, the reason I say that, because, afterwards, I was thinking well, I went back into the school I felt dirty I felt betrayed I felt ashamed, but mainly mainly, I felt powerless.

Indeed, despite the powerlessness so vividly highlighted by the Islamic State s beheading of two Japanese hostages, Japan has not adopted even one amendment to the peace constitution that the occupying American forces imposed on it in 1947.