Clinton and the Obama administration were impotent — or worse.
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And Congress has been pretty impotent up to this point.
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The National Assembly has been reduced to an impotent NGO.
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As it was, his government soon seemed rudderless and impotent.
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Political commentators often paint Mike Pence as an impotent toady.
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That doesn't mean central banks are impotent at this point.
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In this new world, Trumpism appears brittle, hollow and impotent.
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Which is tremendously exciting for me, being impotent in that regard.
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I know from experience that their purported solutions are impotent fantasies.
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And the forces pushing for the latter appeared divided and impotent.
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Their objective should be to render him as impotent as possible.
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After one last impotent Nigerian attack, the ref blows the whistle.
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The right, he felt, had been equally impotent during its tenure.
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We often hear that America is weak, even impotent, in world affairs.
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Chinese shares were already impotent and now we have the circuit breaker!
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" Just Getting Started (2017), starring Morgan Freeman, was deemed "dramatically and comically impotent.
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Mars's retrograde in Scorpio was rough: You felt stuck, overwhelmed, angry yet impotent.
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"Congress has been somewhat impotent in its ability to enforce subpoenas," Chaffetz added.
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The federal government is not impotent on this issue; it is politically paralyzed.
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A soft coup against a cuckoo: It confirmed how impotent Trump had become.
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Yet such technology is impotent in isolation, said U.N. trafficking expert Ben Smith.
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But ultimately, raising awareness, that impotent entreaty of our time, is not enough.
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Next, a collected stroll followed by a casual lob over an impotent David Ospina.
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That should provide some protection, but may still be impotent against a mass attack.
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Indeed, bullshit that is not found at least somewhat meaningful would be rather impotent.
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American policy towards Mr Kim's dreadful regime has long been one of impotent neglect.
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Though technically impotent, the resulting drawings are nearly identical to their computer-made counterparts.
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If Democrats lose in November, it will remain an impotent mantra of the resistance.
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Whatever passion drives the characters feels ineffectual and impotent, much like the characters themselves.
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To see them fail, repeatedly, is unsettling; it makes our deepest values seem impotent.
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Their Golden Calf with virtually unlimited resources and power was found to be impotent.
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To his own credit (and to biographers), Dalí long believed himself to be impotent.
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Faced with the horror of a suicidal friend or relation, people feel scared and impotent.
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But there remains the impotent fear of the unseen: Ebola is still out there, lurking.
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He's in AA and impotent so...if history repeats, Alison will make the wrong decision.
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Shareholder TCI Fund Management is among the other investors who are furious, but basically impotent.
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Against that backdrop, Macron's government is left trying to appear neither impotent nor heavy-handed.
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Even if Satanic pedophile ring conspiracies are immortal, they are hopefully increasingly impotent as well.
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"The 'Deal' on FISA is weak sauce diluted & made impotent by A.G. Barr," tweeted Paul.
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"I felt guilty and impotent, because there's little that you can do," Mr. Pulex said.
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But only the "impotent poor" — those truly powerless to support themselves — were to receive aid.
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There's no backstory, no mythology, nothing at stake except the increasingly impotent threat of Gargamel.
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With central banks impotent and fiscal policy undermined by supply bottlenecks, novel approaches are needed.
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The pose somehow conveys a sense of impotent rage, of utter disbelief, of overwhelming despair.
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Impotent [ecosystems] had cropped up all over the place, and the deafening silence instilled fear.
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"It's pretty to think so," Axe says, quoting Hemingway's impotent Jake in The Sun Also Rises.
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Russia's Defence Ministry said he was an "intellectual impotent" and Lavrov said he probably lacked education.
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Black women are told they are impotent and powerless, but are expected to have supernatural resilience.
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But so far, they are impotent words, without consequences, and the Congolese people face a deadline.
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Before I go, a few stats for the people who like their socialism mouthy and impotent.
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All of this makes me feel both a desire to do something but also completely impotent.
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I picked my scrawny self up and, burning with impotent rage, went to chaperone her home.
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In the book, Trujillo is depicted as a brute, but also as an impotent bed wetter.
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With an impotent, worse-than-useless Congress, our only hope is a strong and principled judiciary.
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Practically impotent as a black police officer, Reeves has power to act while under the hood.
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Her eyes are small and pale blue and impotent: I did not notice them until now.
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Moreover, pushing Sunnis from their homes renders them politically impotent, as refugees are hard to organize.
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His mother has made him impotent with her refusal to let him become more than her son.
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The lack of a simple solution deprives politicians of easy slogans, but does not leave trustbusters impotent.
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The commission renders itself impotent if it loses the trust of the EU's two most important countries.
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We have a government that's impotent, a government that doesn't get it…it doesn't understand what's happening.
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If armed officers are rendered vulnerable or impotent, what does that say for the rest of us?
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They would have been effective at any other time but Drake just kept laughing, rendering Meek impotent.
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This has been a sinister 72 hours of barely sublimated violence, impotent nationalism, and open carry racism.
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With the help of the Cold War, it obliterated the left and made the labor movement impotent.
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Their offense is predictably impotent but they've rationalized Spoelstra's decision with impressive play on the defensive end.
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Republican lawmakers, long proponents of free trade, portray themselves as impotent to halt the president's trade warmongering.
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To surrender them to Russian aggression would make the West look both morally bankrupt and geopolitical impotent.
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The recent $2900 trillion tax reform has been heralded as everything from economically impotent to over-stimulating.
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There is a powerlessness in his formulation, an impotent anger at the distant, impersonal bureaucracy he's criticizing.
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We should also remember that we are not impotent when it comes to this kind of injustice.
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An impotent buffoon who does dumb evil shit, and somehow gets away with it is far more fitting.
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Since then, Spain and Mr Rajoy, reduced to an impotent caretaker, have waited for more than 300 days.
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When Serena realizes Fred is impotent, she farms June out to the family driver, Nick, to become impregnated.
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We may not even know who had attacked us, only that we were deaf, dumb, blind and impotent.
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We would advise them to go and see a doctor if they had an issue or were impotent.
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It's this realm where some of Smart's most important contributions get clouded by his impotent individual shot creation.
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So the letter is simultaneously impressive and impotent, given the post-factual era in which we're trapped in.
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From the highway, I could see a forest of idle drilling rigs, and countless rigs lying horizontal, impotent.
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It's as hack a sentiment as "wake up sheeple" and red pillers are inextricably linked with impotent misogyny.
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"Now, I go up to Stormont and it's this great big echoey, empty, impotent place," Ms. Rowledge said.
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Though a number of crowdfunded sex toys have ultimately proven impotent, there have been a few stunning successes.
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Is it better to suffer electoral blowback for cutting popular programs or for fecklessly impotent unified Republican government?
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When Natalia tried to start it again, I recognized the impotent sound of the motor, suffocated and exhausted.
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But a White House run this way will be politically impotent long before it reaches its first midterm.
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He's also aware of a nuclear option: planting hemp, which would render nearby marijuana impotent by pollinating it.
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Sum sad I am impotent, I am Literature, missing Ha, thumb sculpted the point of origin: hair-bun.
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Impatient, impotent, and in turmoil, we all bicker with pointless small talk, leading to an omnipresent existential angst.
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They are keen to our defenses and devour them, snickering all the while at our impotent pest control burlesque.
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It must be admitted that some of the fact-checking is infected by the checkers' impotent hatred of Trump.
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When she meets Maurice, Jessie initially sees a financial upside in letting an impotent old man flirt with her.
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Mr Macron thinks populism thrives when people feel their leaders are impotent, in particular against the forces of globalisation.
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Waiting in horror to see what happens when an impotent man-baby gets his finger on the nuclear button.
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L'Engle's book derives its magic from refracting and magnifying Meg's pain, anger, and impotent rage into a fantasy quest.
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President Nixon and the government were rendered impotent, unable to govern and meet its responsibilities to the American public.
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Third, there are those who feel frightened or impotent in the face of bullying and the menace of violence.
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Extreme partisan gerrymandering renders political will irrelevant, or at least impotent, replacing it instead with self-perpetuating, entrenched power.
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These twin symbols of America, here incarcerated and impotent, suggest that either direction on the bridge leads to corruption.
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Trudeau is the spokesman for the Ottawa mandarin class and Trump is the spokesman for the impotent American id.
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My tastes have long felt like one prolonged chaotic blunder, full of misguided efforts, impotent stances, and arbitrary discoveries.
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He's at his most dangerous when he's most vulnerable and impotent, because he's compelled to project command and potency.
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He's at his most dangerous when he's most vulnerable and impotent, because he's compelled to project command and potency.
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Mr. Castorf seems to view "Faust" as the product of an impotent and irrelevant civilization that should be overthrown.
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White-faced, her black eye makeup incongruously gothic in the strong light, she turned on Pippa in impotent fury.
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After much effort he proves to be impotent, and instead moves "heavily, laboriously" downward to try a different approach.
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She called him "a weak & impotent leader" in a July 6 tweet that was liked more than 54,000 times.
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Sometimes the attackers burned women's genitals with a lighted candle or mutilated a man's genitals to render him impotent.
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Though the adult industry is unlikely to be toppled by the impotent rage of, well, impotent lawmakers, anti-porn language—resolutions that declare porn to be an "insidious epidemic"—still fuels stigma towards sex workers, reinforcing the erroneous idea that people who work in the adult industry are diseased, damaged, and evil.
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Brady, stewing in impotent rage, finally calls to Lake Oswego police to blame the crime on Tabitha, Elodie, and Moe.
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Trump's proposed trans ban has so far been impotent, with army generals declaring that they don't take commands from Twitter.
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"The Greeks are always trying to slow down the opponent, making the offence impotent," Hungary's veteran player Denes Varga said.
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Specifically, he cites peaking growth, high debt levels, impotent central bank policies, and social and political conflicts that could worsen.
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Trump cannot render the country's massive democratic institutions impotent when most Americans will make common cause with them over him.
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Developers routinely raze our architectural heritage to make way for hideous super towers, with the impotent consent of our lawmakers.
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The core sentiment of the statement isn't the problem—spouting impotent bromides as if you're speaking truth to power is.
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Looking at those elements alone, this order seems like just another set of blustery but ultimately impotent proposals from Trump.
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An impotent threat to tear up a bargain that keep Iran's nuclear program under international surveillance won't change Tehran's behavior.
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And oh, it's going to do this and that or it's going to make you impotent, give you lung cancer.
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" On the phone from Tel Aviv, Krieger dismisses the criticism towards his project as ramblings of "the old impotent left.
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The orchestrated American response with our allies will serve as an impotent gesture, having no impact on restraining Mr. Putin.
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" Mailhot writes of a friend: "She thinks my husband doesn't understand how to communicate love, and I think he's impotent.
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Japanese news outlets have repeated the myth that suicidal wanderers can easily get lost because compasses are rendered impotent here.
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The lesson here is that when it comes to political clout outside of himself, President Trump is an impotent loser.
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"We're definitely fighting it a little bit, to say the least," Ryan McDonagh said of the team's impotent power play.
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Still, Antoon's claims were rejected and Kaouk was held not liable for the surgical outcome left Antoon impotent and incontinent.
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If we cannot trust what vetted scientists or professional journalists tell us, then we will have been rendered rationally impotent.
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The oppressed have often aimed their impotent rage at those too low on the social scale to even attempt rebellion.
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Was Arthur indeed impotent as Catherine claimed, or was this an elaborate ruse constructed by Catherine and upheld by her entourage?
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He said that the operation damaged nerves in the area and left him impotent and incontinent, the Des Moines Register reports.
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They gave up 177 yards rushing in Monday night&aposs win over Denver, a team that&aposs been impotent on offense.
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Benji doesn't stop the rape because he wants Beverly Jean to be humiliated, and seemingly punished, for making him feel impotent.
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It would also make Democrats appear impotent and unable to leverage the House majority they won after vowing to constrain Trump.
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Is this a good omen or someone's impotent reaction to the news that bigotry had been voted into the oval office?
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It's pathetic to watch a man -- any man -- turn to childish, impotent playground insults when he feels threatened by a woman.
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Matched against political realities and the destructive power of etatist ideology, though, ink and paper appear to be quite impotent indeed.
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He's tired of chasing spies, he's tired of being behind, he's tired of being impotent at home, he's just plain tired.
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After scoring 23 points in the first quarter of Game 23, they were weirdly impotent at the start of Game 983.
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" Infertile from an adolescent bout of mumps, he was often impotent except with prostitutes, whom, for their detachment, he termed "goddesses.
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Impotent monetary policy The world's central banks are well aware of these forces, of course, and are trying to combat them.
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Clinton began her campaign with an array of serious proposals, from overturning Citizens United to overhauling the impotent Federal Election Commission.
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Worse, NATO's confused reaction and impotent protests against Russia waging electronic warfare reinforces Moscow's impression of NATO military and political weaknesses.
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Mwende said she was surprised by the attack, as doctors told the couple that she was fertile, while Ngila was impotent.
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ICAN should be urging countries to develop more effective missile-defense systems, rather than to sign on to an impotent treaty.
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Wouldn't doing so only encourage Iranian aggressiveness and prove right the jihadist groups that say Arab countries are impotent and treacherous?
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Heimbach said some members "essentially want it to remain a politically impotent white supremacist gang" and resisted ideological changes advocated by Schoep.
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My use of mouthwash to cover my sins was as idiotically impotent as the idea I could drink like other, reasonable, people.
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There is a love potion that renders its user impotent, a facial cream that beautifies but blinds, a microscope that mentally handicaps.
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No matter how well the team perform in the long run, every setback will be met with vitriol, bitterness and impotent rage.
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Raising it would be a formality, occasioned by a bland statement to Congress and impotent grumbling by members of the opposing party.
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As the film begins, our Lady Macbeth is trapped within the house of Mr Lester, her mean, drunk, and impotent industrialist husband.
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In 1980, Michael Horowitz wrote a seminal report for the Sarah Scaife Foundation, explaining why conservatives were impotent in the legal sphere.
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Zuckerman returns as the narrator of all three novels, but he is in his 60s now, impotent and suffering from prostate cancer.
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What heaven can there be for us without an eternity in which to relish the impotent envy of those outside its walls?
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But they are so discredited and impotent that I'm honestly not sure what they could do to stop him at this point.
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There is a simple remedy for Republicans: Rescind the Citizens United decision by the Supreme Court and render the Kochs' coercion impotent.
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The U.S. also remains at odds at the WTO, where its efforts in Geneva have rendered the trade regulator's highest court impotent.
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By the time she belatedly announced an austerity plan after her re-election, a fiercely antagonistic legislature had rendered her effectively impotent.
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I instructed the staff to tell the women residents' husbands that treatment for prostate cancer years earlier had left my father impotent.
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America's China policy since Reagan has oscillated between intellectualized inconsistency (Bush) and impotent obeisance couched in the somber tones of ineffectual, nuance.
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The theory that Jews are trying to control the West by using porn to render white Christian men impotent has deep roots.
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I would say for me and for the national conversation, governor has become increasingly important the more impotent our congressional leadership becomes.
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London's red telephone booths, an iconically impotent symbol of the country's capital, have been often used as a platform for activist street artist.
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They would be entitled to welfare payments and pensions as "provision for them that were once labourers and be now weak and impotent".
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The second is to avert a slow-moving economic crisis that threatens to condemn Brazil to slow growth, high inflation and impotent government.
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Before 9/11, al-Qaeda was able to build a mini-army in Afghanistan, with the United States seemingly impotent to stop it.
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What has changed, though, is that unlike Eastbound and Vice Principals, the new series does not revolve around impotent men grasping for power.
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Danish researchers say that stem cell injections enabled impotent men to get erections again and have sex—a first for stem cell therapy.
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The LAF, along with the impotent UNIFIL force, has stopped or identified none of the many missile shipments sent by Iran to Hezbollah.
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Satyagraha, which presumed a basic commitment to dialogue on all sides, was likely to be impotent against Nazism or any other genocidal ideology.
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Lee joined the married dating site Illicit Encounters herself back when she was married because her husband was impotent due to terminal cancer.
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The administration should determine a clear, unmistakable line that, unlike the impotent, tragic Syrian "red line" of the Obama era, cannot be crossed.
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We're just going to dwindle away with an impotent, sexless whisper, swirl quietly down the plughole of non-procreation with a melancholy gurgle.
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To avoid this possibility on Game of Thrones, the assembled Lords of Westeros select the disabled Bran, who Sansa assures us is impotent.
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Republicans, on the other hand, have had their entire electorate hijacked by President Trump and Fox News, rendering their leadership and themselves impotent.
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It has left the United States impotent to deal with our greatest challenges — inequality, alienation, climate change and a global drift toward autocracy.
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We're just babysitting the most impotent chief executive we'll ever see, and locking in some good judges before the Democrats sweep us out.
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Impotent because the sad details of Neva's life are spilled early, which makes any news to the characters no news to the reader.
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If anybody in Berlin needed a reminder of how dangerously impotent Europe is in the face of President Trump's erratic foreign policy, Jan.
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I'll never know the impotent rage of being profiled, or encounter institutionalized hurdles to success because of my skin or hair or name.
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Yet putting forth the idea of an impotent navy by comparing it to the fleet of World War I has been debunked many times.
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Ajo Kawir, a Javanese teenager, witnesses the brutal rape of a local madwoman by two policemen, and from that moment on is rendered impotent.
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But the nauseating repetition of hideous White House policy proposal followed by impotent posturing from the Valley is worse than useless, it's outright hypocritical.
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Climate change and species extinctions are accelerating even as societies are experiencing rising inequality, unemployment, slow economic growth, rising debt levels, and impotent governments.
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Impotent LeadershipLast week, co-founder and CEO Steve Huffman, after months of harassment and "getting called a pedophile constantly" by The_Donald users, finally cracked.
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" He adds in his book: "After a lifetime of feeling impotent about my brother's murder, I was suddenly in a position to take action.
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It's a stumbling, shambling affair, a rootless, pathetic, and ultimately impotent examination of the joys and horrors of hedonism as a way of life.
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It's not just that we are morally impotent; the continuation of our comfortable lives rests on the continuation—on the success—of that impotence.
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When did it become American foreign policy to support an impotent military that is forced to work with a U.S.-designated enemy terrorist organization?
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Because of a series of Supreme Court cases, especially one from Pennsylvania in 2004, courts have been impotent to stop this practice thus far.
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"But if the opposition parties are impotent and the L.D.P. is firmly under Abe's control, that system will be weakened to an unprecedented degree."
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Not a simple pledge like "I will never raise your taxes or touch Social Security"; that renders anyone who makes it impotent for governing.
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While most campaign professionals treat the F.E.C. as an impotent joke, a Federal District Court judge shed light this week on the commission's dereliction.
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The 29-point loss to the Cavaliers on Tuesday provided evidence of their disconnection, in the form of myriad missed shots and impotent defense.
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"Most of the time we feel impotent and powerless, but when you see the goodness of people it gives you strength," Mr. Saldaña said.
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If Trump is impotent or if he's impeached, there is precedent for the markets simply shrugging, for the economy to keep chugging right along.
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A failure to fulfill that expectation might have been taken as a sign that world authorities are impotent in the face of the outbreak.
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If an antibody is attached to a binding site used by a virus to hijack a human cell, then the virus is rendered impotent.
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This past summer was one packed with retrogrades that Broadly astrologer Annabel Gat says made us feel heated yet impotent, or horny with no outlet.
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Most obviously, sex robots are often portrayed as here to destroy us: take our jobs, do them better than us, make us redundant and impotent.
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The pelican spider then keeps its prey pinned at the end of its death-tweezers, rendering any retaliation impotent, until the venom does its thing.
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His characters share a deliberate sort of pettiness, not just a smallness of drive, but a smallness in the impotent, baffled way they greet obstacles.
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People drawn to politics for the right reasons are compelled, once elected, to toe the party line—or risk becoming impotent iconoclasts, independent but ineffective.
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The former vice prime minister of Belgium, Louis Michel, has characterized the state as "impotent" and lacking in the legal means to anticipate these events.
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It's not like anyone's turning to me to say that they're impotent — there are limits — but I think it's more personal than other office environments.
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The vividly animated video comes from the point of view of an impotent husband who is incapable of sexually pleasing his wife for obvious reasons.
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The result is a largely impotent press that has failed to hold accountable populist leaders who reach enormous audiences directly with their social media accounts.
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As the virus burns its way through the populace, the Iranian theocracy remains impotent and powerless, crippled by a fatal combination of ignorance and arrogance.
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Had House Democrats failed to act when the president used his power for personal advantage, they would have looked impotent and left their voters disengaged.
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"Anytime it's linked to something with Russia, Bulgarian intelligence is very impotent," said Rosen Plevneliev, who was Bulgaria's president at the time of the poisonings.
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Leonilda, who was Casanova's daughter by one Lucrezia Castelli, was married to an impotent old marquis, and badly wanted both a lover and a child.
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With the exception of the noble but impotent Don Ottavio, a tenor part, the male roles all call for low voices that are potentially interchangeable.
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Freely downloadable protest artworks offer members of the public a means of peacefully expressing what can feel like impotent rage at the state of political affairs.
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Nigeria, a democracy whose government—for all its flaws—is far less impotent than Somalia's, is bound to resent foreign navies or mercenaries off its coast.
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Bakarat and others in the Arab world believe that despite Trump's global reach and earth-shattering bravado, his words will remain impotent unless he somehow wins.
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"We now regularly have to stand by in impotent silence, even though it may appear to us that an innocent person has been convicted," he wrote.
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"It's a clear strategy of the Maduro government to render the Assembly completely impotent," said Michael Shifter of the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington research group.
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A Las Vegas, Nevada woman is currently on the run from authorities since admitting she tried to poison her husband in hopes of making him impotent.
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Not so fast, Mr. Wolinsky thought, knowing this was not a minor operation, and one that often left men temporarily or permanently impotent, incontinent or both.
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That leaves the lens through which the authoritarian sees the world (domination and submission) blind, and the tools available to him (scapegoating, exclusion, retribution, violence) impotent.
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The arrangement recalls Yasunari Kawabata's novella, The House of Sleeping Beauties (1961), where impotent old men pay to sleep beside young narcotized women, without touching them.
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Or will it resign itself to becoming, at best, an impotent witness to the rivalry among the great global powers or, at worst, these powers' playground?
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Washington knows that the playbook of monetary easing aimed at promoting borrowing and investing is impotent when people are at home and businesses are shut down.
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In March, 2011, Fidyka was discharged—incontinent, impotent, and without sensation or strength in his legs—to go on with his life as best he could.
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I keep myself going each day by saying, "Ok, well at least tomorrow you'll get your stuff," and it's excruciating to feel so impotent in the situation.
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Each Iranian announcement will make the President appear impotent, and those around him will push for military strikes, as they did after the downing of the drone.
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And now, more than a decade later, Russia is still fighting a small, fierce and only mildly impotent affiliate of the ISIS caliphate in its southern provinces.
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Whatever the target, the aim is the same: generating a sense of impotent, adolescent frustration and anger among voters, leaving them with only one option : voting Trump.
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And how US national security agencies unearthed proof of the plot, but failed to intercede and stop it — leaving an incumbent Democratic president fuming in impotent fury.
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And all I could do, it seemed to me then, was make soundless, impotent flags out of this fact and throw them off into dark deep space.
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Once reporters have enough quotes and each norm violation fades from memory (often displaced by another), the lingering impression is the impotent silence of the first branch.
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With Son of a Gun, I liked the idea of taking the killing machine and deconstructing and reconstructing it out of something flaccid and impotent and harmless.
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Panicked and impotent in the aftermath of an atrocity in a mining village, it is revealed that the festival is her attempt to atone for earlier ineffectualness.
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A recent example: Has there ever been a more infantile, witless, impotent, self-obsessed, intellectually-bankrupt pus-filled cockstump to perch, temporarily, on a seat of power?
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The effort has been quiet, but nonetheless coordinated and precise: In many states, particularly conservative ones, preemption law has rendered left-leaning local policy-making largely impotent.
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When a commander in chief looks impotent to alter the course of events and his government seems to be flailing, his credibility also can be quickly shattered.
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By trapping Hedorah between two electrodes, Yano and the Japanese military are able to zap the sentient smog until it is turned to dust and rendered impotent.
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And, in any case, Magic publisher Wizards of the Coast's provision against proxies is about as impotent as the "don't remove this tag" message on your pillow.
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I cried from impotent anger at the fact that I can still be so hurt by a decision made decades ago by a guy I barely knew.
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One need not literally shutter press outlets in the manner of Recep Tayyip Erdogan or Xi Jinping or Vladimir Putin to render the press irrelevant and impotent.
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If Andrew Yang can be successful already besting senators, governors, and congressmen, then the party is exposed as the impotent, hollowed out shell that it actually is.
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But this time, as economic overseers confront a pandemic that has sent stock markets hurtling downward while provoking talk of a global recession, their tools appear impotent.
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" Sophocles, who had grown very old, said that being impotent was a relief, and that he felt like he had "escaped from a frantic and savage master.
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That effectively neutered a government that was all but impotent in any case; Mr. Sánchez's Socialist party held less than a quarter of the seats in Parliament.
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But his words in the form of an impotent executive order may have the effect of inflaming a civil war, much like the Dred Scott decision did.
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If a nation's central bank does not have the ability to control the currency for the people in its own nation state, then it is largely rendered impotent.
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In 1988, Jesse Jackson thrilled crowds with denunciations of the "economic violence" committed by big corporations that moved factories to lands where labor was cheap and unions impotent.
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And, indeed, for all the off-the-record impotent rage of congressional Republicans, it's not exactly clear what it is they think Trump should have held out for.
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But on a deeper level, Bad Santa is also the story of a broken man triumphing over his fears of failing as a father and being generally impotent.
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Against all odds, The Lobster ends up becoming a little bit romantic, even hopeful, as embodied by Farrell's impotent, beaten-down, defeated, yet still somehow full-hearted performance.
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That's a dangerous road to go down—and it certainly didn't help that Mars, the planet of war, was retrograde at the time, rendering it impotent and angry.
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Andrew Lapthorne, global head of quantitative strategy at Societe Generale in London, said he thinks negative yields are a reflection of how impotent central bank policy has become.
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Andrew Lapthorne, global head of quantitative strategy at Societe Generale in London, said he thinks negative yields are a reflection of how impotent central bank policy has become.
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A much-improved defense that ranks in the league's top ten in efficiency, and has given the Pelicans an unexpected identity while covering for a surprisingly impotent offense.
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"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," Connecticut Sen.
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As Barbara Slavin of the Atlantic Council noted in Axios, Trump's anti-Iran comments were tinged by impotent rage because the world clearly didn't care what he said.
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This widespread abuse succeeds partly because the international treaty governing IP, the World Trade Organization's Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Agreement (TRIPS), is outmoded and increasingly impotent.
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Saudi Arabia and its Persian Gulf neighbors were poised to begin a campaign in support of Yemen's impotent government — an offensive Mr. Jubeir said could be relatively swift.
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With phrases like "ideas are amazing" peppered throughout, his TED Talk was probably humorous to those who find rhetoric on the left to be idealistic, impotent word-salads.
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"During a bond market crisis caused by inflation, global central banks will be completely impotent," Michael Pento, president and founder of Pento Portfolio Strategies, said in a report.
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Waldo, a filmmaker, impotent and consumed with sex — a "penis in a wheelchair," he calls himself — becomes violently jealous of his young wife's friendship with a mutual acquaintance.
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In his view, a woman with an impotent or unwilling husband should seek a divorce and, if he refuses, request sex with one of his relatives or friends.
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If you don't find that too reassuring, consider this: The exchanges aren't connected to the internet, rendering one of the most ubiquitous and effective scamming techniques completely impotent.
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The minister of health had dispensed laughably impotent advice, telling locals to keep their windows shut, and to wipe their shoes on a wet rag before going inside.
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New lawmakers are likely to find themselves either part of an impotent opposition or lobby fodder for a government with so many bodies that individuals simply don't matter.
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So automation should only lead to mass unemployment if the Fed is asleep at the switch — or if job losses become so rapid that the central bank becomes impotent.
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He said many Irish business people feel impotent in the debate, but planned to urge them to influence friends and family who do have a say in the matter.
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Brazil's political and economic crises had rendered her impotent well before the senate deposed her; he is a more adept politician, with a firmer base of support in congress.
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After combing through the stories and examining the traits that men like Todd share, I noticed that they all seemed to feel emasculated, made impotent, by their mundane lives.
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The mall urges customers to "Buy now — before it's too late," and Italians believe anyone who doesn't change his sheets on Last Day will be impotent for a year.
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The belittling of critics as pathetic and impotent is entirely of a piece with his giving mocking nicknames to rivals, like "low-energy" Jeb Bush and "little" Marco Rubio.
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Mix a colorful figure (preferably orange) into a liberal but fractured democracy, where the left has been weakened by infighting and the right has been reduced by impotent leadership.
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Unpacking Mr. Putin's decisions, one cannot escape the sense that he is haunted by memories of the sclerotic and impotent leadership of the Soviet Union in its waning years.
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I would say that we have a very dysfunctional presidency and we have an impotent congressional structure that right now doesn't seem to be able to think about anything.
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This kind of dark folk is extremely easy to fuck up or render utterly impotent, but Invocatio Lux, Evocatio Nox hits every mark and is a triumph on every level.
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It is that our cultural institutions—Hollywood, television, book publishing, the news media, the recording industry, the big three sporting leagues—were so impotent in the face of Trump's rise.
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His failure to recognize global threats, even at the behest of intelligence officials, has left our government nearly impotent in the effort to address our most crucial foreign policy needs.
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Hannah's parents, the Baker's, are suing the school for neglecting to intervene in Hannah's suicide, despite her having reached out to the school's impotent guidance counselor the day she died.
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Not knowing how to respond, I did the only thing I could think of at the time, which felt ridiculous and impotent but wholly necessary: I made her mother soup.
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Not only does she lack firsthand knowledge of that impotent rage of racism, but she clearly doesn't understand the colonialist nature of that racism, and her willing participation in it.
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An attempt to surgically remove Dave's cancer last spring severed one of the nerves to his genitals, leaving him impotent with only a 50-50 chance of regaining natural erections.
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With the legislative branch impotent and hollowed out, the executive branch—and the president who sits atop it—increasingly makes and carries out the policy decisions that shape American lives.
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Secondly, the Afghan government continues to be impotent and hopelessly corrupt, as evidenced by the fact that there is still has been no winner officially declared since last September's presidential election.
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Whereas this summer's retrogrades left us feeling impotent and wondering whether we deserve good things, this fall's make us feel on top of the world—to the point of near-recklessness.
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An impotent 0-0 draw against Sweden in Milan's San Siro stadium on November 13th, following a 19983-0 defeat in Stockholm three days before, meant that the impossible had happened.
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" Brian Holcomb of CinemaBlend compared the story to that of "Paris Hilton if she were to be married off to an impotent French Prince instead of dating meatheads armed with camcorders.
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The weakening of unions into an impotent force in American life proved more successful than we'd even realized—particularly in the place where labor strained so hard to stop it, Wisconsin.
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And while the resolutions may be legally impotent for now, pro-choice activists say they are effective in at least one way: misleading people about whether they can access abortion care.
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Another aim of Japan's negative rates appeared to be aimed at showing the central bank wasn't impotent despite being forced to push back its target date for achieving 2 percent inflation.
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At times, the eight-limbed art is a beautiful thing—with none of the impotent anger and trash talk that you see and hear in other professional combat sports of note.
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Having failed to maintain their title challenge over the last few months, the Gunners' home games have been characterised by swathes of empty seats and the occasional, impotent outburst of #WengerOut.
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The United Nations Security Council has been particularly impotent at ending the killing between Mr. Assad, a member of a Shiite sect, and the Syrian opposition, made up mostly of Sunnis.
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But as the United States and China, the two largest economies on earth, edge closer to a trade war, the organization established in 1995 to prevent such hostilities appears increasingly impotent.
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This question is posed by the novel's more skeptical characters, including the retired policeman, whose mission to expose something criminal or otherwise damning about Neva's past provides a rather impotent plotline.
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The idea for health associations has been around for a while, but poor decisions by power-hungry bureaucrats have left them largely impotent and difficult to organize and receive approval for.
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"Only a weak & impotent leader would spend more time attacking his predecessor & the free press than those in the world truly threatening US," Waters, a vocal Trump critic, wrote on Twitter.
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The other is a white toddler, his oversized headwear clearly belonging to an adult, pointing an impotent popgun at the doomed black boy as he turns his fearsome rifle on himself.
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"You fail to live up to my morals" is an impotent attack in a diverse society; "you fail to live up to your own morals" is an impossible indictment to escape.
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That's part of the reason we got the Voting Rights Act — it was apparent that the 2340 Civil Rights Act was absolutely impotent in the face of massive disfranchisement of black voters.
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He does make some recommendations, but they range from impotent ("Make tech and leadership less stressful") to hopelessly vague ("Allow those exhibiting cooperative behavior to thrive") to outright hostile ("De-emphasize empathy").
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Trump on Monday announced he's hitting Turkey with sanctions over the invasion, offering a response that many US lawmakers view as an impotent reaction to a crisis of the president's own making.
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"Brinkley would put goat testicles inside an impotent man, and nine months later, that man would call himself a father," Mr. Tognacci says in a voice that suggests an affected straight face.
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Moreover, far from hurting Sanders, this impotent assault is self-defeating, fueling the narrative that party gatekeepers want, at all costs, to keep a political revolution from taking over the Democratic Party.
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And that's why he likes to throw parades: to convince himself and his followers that they aren't impotent against the threat they see from the United States, to make themselves feel good.
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Macke's "Four Girls" (1913), in which he treats well-dressed young women as exotic flowers growing out of lush foliage, is unusually static, as if in impotent protest at the scene's fragility.
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In Istanbul, the imperial capital, the severed head of a former pasha sits in a dish of honey, guarded by an impotent man; the head soon becomes the anchor of the story.
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I was long haunted by his 1994 piece "Impotent Victory" which I encountered at the (now famous) Black Male exhibition at the Whitney Museum, and couldn't understand the piece at first look.
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"They have been impotent in the face of the greatest threat that we have ever known -- one that we experienced first-hand here in El Paso a week ago Saturday," he said.
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While some of the country's most powerful men have lined up to lick the boots of every new military dictator, Ms. Jahangir's activism has sent those dictators into impotent fits of rage.
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If you do, you not only render them impotent, but you take the first steps toward defeating their masters and returning us all to something that truly never dies: reality-based reality.
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A handful of countries have formally severed ties with Taiwan in recent months, leaving it with just 15 allies around the world — all of whom are relatively impotent on the world stage.
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"As a child she's not allowed a political voice through the vote, but schoolchildren have to face the brutal consequences of irresponsible gun policy and inept or impotent politicians," Aiko Smith said.
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It boiled up again when I saw the looks of helpless, impotent anger in the faces of the villagers who lined the road when Ms. Power returned to apologize to Toussaint's family.
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What makes these figures ludicrous is that, just a few years prior to Viagra's release, pharma companies pushing injectable impotence products claimed that 10 million to 20 million American men were impotent.
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But that's because the series has always suggested the simple pleasures of small-town life as an impotent antidote to the cosmic evils that lurk inside each and every single one of us.
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His impotent rage when he realized what Richard had done, the murderous impulse it later transformed into, and the strange, one-off mention of his dead son afterward finally brought Morgan into focus.
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We delude ourselves that protests' power lies in scale rather than frequency, but the Iraq war protests wouldn't have been any less impotent had they been bigger; they failed because they weren't sustained.
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"Especially now, because as of this morning you had an [attorney general] who was impotent, you had a possibly non-existent [deputy attorney general], and the solicitor general possibly taking over," he added.
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The dire circumstances, along with a late-inning bullpen implosion and another night of impotent offense, were enough that Girardi snapped afterward, breaking off his postgame news conference and storming out his office.
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As good as much of their work is (including The Weekly), this temptation to not only stay neutral but also to aggressively advertise their brand of dedication to Truth renders them relatively impotent.
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That code had led officers to overlook or even join in illegal activities — including the theft of cash and narcotics seized in drug raids — while impotent or complicit department brass saw no evil.
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But as details of Trump's Russia connections have dribbled out over the last year and a half, each revelation has led to a familiar, numbing cycle of shock, impotent anger, and, finally, resignation.
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But the fury in the streets resonated as a rebuke for broader grievances — diminishing livelihoods, financial anxiety and the sense that the regime is at best impotent in the face of formidable troubles.
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The online challenge did a whole lot of real-world good, and helped set the stage for the internet to be a true crucible for change rather than an impotent virtue signalling tool.
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He was found to be impotent on his wedding night, and his wife often made him stay, as punishment, in the basement of the family's house in a working-class section of Rome.
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Uber's Flying Car Plan Meets the Regulator It Can't IgnoreAfter years of steamrolling local taxi authorities and ignoring impotent city officials, Uber has started a battle where asking permission most definitely trumps asking forgiveness.
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The Department of Justice looks completely impotent by insisting it is "committed to enforcing the Controlled Substances Act," but not actually doing anything about it in states that contradict federal authority by legalizing marijuana.
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Related: Inside the Unregulated Chinese Hospitals That Make Men Impotent Wei's treatment ultimately failed, reported state media, and before he died last month he posted criticism online accusing Baidu of promoting false medical information.
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Farrell, who's been brisk but soulful in a series of carefully chosen roles in the second half of his career, comes across as defeated and impotent here, with no sign of his usual charisma.
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His characters — like his put-upon den-mother vampire Viago in What We Do In The Shadows — tend to be hilarious but impotent, and they're endlessly self-aggrandizing, without realizing how foolish they sound.
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I was totally impotent and everybody on the set—all 200 people—were looking to me to be responsible, and I wasn't even responsible for myself, so I said "I can't do this again".
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The latest impotent approach to addressing the addiction crisis here in America is to simply move the goalposts, call it a win, and write off a measurable percentage of the population and their families.
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Messi was injured, and even with all its firepower — Sergio Agüero, Ángel Di María, Gonzalo Higuaín, Ezequiel Lavezzi and the youngsters Ángel Correa and Paulo Dybala — Argentina without Messi is apparently an impotent force.
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If he feels impotent and/or castrated by events over which he has no leverage, he lets the precarious placement of the pickle — at once a strange and completely revealing detail — do the talking.
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Only she knows full well it's a bad deal, and that, in fact, her partner will shrivel to an impotent vegetable after 300 or so years, and become a prisoner inside a useless body.
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That he didn't go easy, that he had to be killed with a drug regimen that had left me drooling and impotent, with my hair falling out by the fistful, rapidly packing on weight.
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Until sanctions are vigorously enforced, the Syrian regime, with Russia, will kill more and more Syrian civilians, and the United States will look more and more like an impotent observer, as it is now.
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So if the Christian Right is so impotent that no amount of blue pills can help them and Trump is not a foe to the LGBT community, where does the great LGBT threat reside?
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So he could only watch with impotent fury earlier this month when the country's four biggest teams — Real Madrid, Barcelona, Atlético Madrid and Valencia — decamped to Saudi Arabia for the annual Spanish Super Cup.
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Though Ernst's bill issues $15 million a year in funding to help tribes implement VAWA, other provisions effectively render tribal courts impotent, according to Mary Kathryn Nagle, a lawyer and activist for the NIWRC.
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The Democrats watched in frustration as the government was presumed to be impotent to address wage stagnation, surging inequality, climate change, the slaughter from automatic weapons and the flood of dark money into politics.
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It is representative of society's tendency to desexualize disabled people—to see them as weak or pitiable and therefore infantile and impotent, objects of sympathy and care but never of sexual interest or agency.
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An operation for urinary stones as a teenager is likely to have left him sterile or impotent, and may explain why he did not have children, according to John Seigenthaler, one of his biographers.
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Even though the "meme magic" narrative has been grossly oversold, it's worth considering just how seriously the right takes its shitposting, and how impotent the left's attempts to engage in meme warfare have been.
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" Trump's election and Year 1 juiced the record bull run, but the stock market wobbled and dipped in Year 2: Be smart: An adviser to top Republicans told me this week's debacle "rendered Trump impotent.
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It's possible these impotent smartphones will hinder US tech giants' ability to reach more Indian consumers, to claim an ever-increasing foothold in the lives of the Next Billion, although Counterpoint's Chauhan wasn't so concerned.
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What is disturbing with the "blame Putin" stance endorsed by serious Western politicians, analysts and news media outlets is that it makes the Russian leader appear omnipotent while making the rest of us seem impotent.
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"If Texans viewed the federal government as impotent and aloof before the Civil War, resistance to the victorious Yankees and their interventionist 'know what's best for Texas' ways took hold after the war," she continued.
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Day by day, tweet by tweet, racist dog whistle followed by indignant defense, Barr and others like her will continue to remake us in their angry image: each day further cocooned in our own impotent outrage.
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People call Trump names all the time, and look, I could call Trump a racist, or a misogynist, or xenophobic, or unstable, or incompetent, or impotent, but he's heard all of those and he doesn't care.
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Good horror gives the audience a chance to be honest (at least, for 90-120 minutes) about the fact that it is terrifying to be human, and mortal, and impotent in the face of the universe.
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To have success in pursuing women was a signal of success as a man, so it seemed the antithesis of that would be to be gay or impotent and that scared the shit out of me.
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Until Trump makes an unambiguous personal statement against Putin, instead of running to his defense, the incongruity of his words and his administration's actions will render any Russia-related policy, no matter how well-executed, impotent.
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When citizens do not take a watchful stand – when they take their civil rights for granted – it allows opposing forces to render policies impotent and ineffectual, making it all the easier to justify their total annihilation.
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Mr. Williams called for a new position to be created and funded by the Olympic committee — an athlete defender, not unlike a public defender — and described the current position of U.S.O.C. athlete ombudsman an impotent one.
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Our millennial co-workers are correct to fault Generation X with fetishizing a worldview that is politically impotent, that represents a dead-end philosophically and aesthetically, and that is steeped in white, male, upper-class privilege.
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Only a weak & impotent leader would spend more time attacking his predecessor & the free press than those in the world truly threatening US. During a news conference in Poland, Trump stepped up his attacks against CNN.
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The problem is that the tenor of the times makes it seem that every story is important — every incremental development in the Russia scandal, every time the president expresses an impotent wish to muzzle the press.
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The anguish on Frank's face in those moments is heartbreaking, but we see the real impact when he retreats to Reverend Wakefield's shed and proceeds to destroy the contents in a fit of impotent rage and grief.
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"The United Nations system ... has been relatively impotent to effectively work with the authorities of Myanmar to reverse the negative trends in the area of human rights and consolidate the positive trends in other areas," he said.
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However, Fitzpatrick deemed the move impotent ahead of its release, citing the several deceased priests and New York state statute of limitations as preventing prosecution for "dozens" of named priests for allegations dating back to the 1950s.
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The story ends with Amy trapping Nick — who, as his sister Go points out, is reprehensible for simply being too impotent to do the right thing — by rebuilding the very suburban facade characters usually want to dismantle.
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"The National Rifle Association seems to be impotent right now and not able to play a role that they should be able to play at a time like this," said Mark Walters, a nationally syndicated radio host.
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The United States acting as an impotent observer makes it an "intentional party-in-interest" in the killing of those unarmed Syrian civilians, who are now fleeing the towns of Idlib under Russian and Syrian regime bombing.
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" (Here, in a sign of things to come, both "diluted" and "oversauced" seem more close-to-hand than precise.) Unsurprisingly, David turns out to be impotent and in poor shape: "The booze and red meat and dairy.
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For rank and file Republicans, Trump is just as much a response to the ineffectual conservative intellectual establishment and the impotent, often dishonest, Republican elected class as he is to the Left's attempts to fundamentally change America.
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As the calm and collected Abbott painstakingly explains his baseball team's lineup — "Who's on first, What's on second, I-Don't-Know's on third" — Costello tumbles headlong into a misunderstanding made funnier by his infuriated and impotent yaps.
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"We are the United States, all our resources, satellites, and badass attitude and we can't help?" wrote Maryland-based Twitter user Derrick Gladden, in a comment that reflected widespread disillusionment that the international community had proved so impotent.
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This movie is, in all likelihood, his swan song, and it is infused with an impotent rage in the face of death, by the fact that you can try your damnedest, but you can't ever outrun the inevitable.
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I think we&aposre under the mayoral governance of an impotent governor -- I&aposm sorry -- mayor who is doing absolutely nothing who is complacent and I think that sort of complacency is symptomatic of what is going on.
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During the Reagan years, for example, conspiracy theories flourished among disenfranchised African American communities that the KKK secretly owned Nike, Marlboro, and Coors, or that sterilizing agents had been put in Church's Chicken to make black men impotent.
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A handful of countries, which are also BRI partners, have formally severed ties with Taiwan in recent months, leaving the island nation with just 15 allies left globally — all of whom are relatively impotent on the world stage.
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Throughout the first three episodes of Vice Principals, Gamby flails about with the impotent rage of a saber-toothed tiger trapped in a tar pit as his insignificant, brittle power and privilege slip through his sausage-like fingers.
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A lot of people are sitting at home feeling impotent and scared; what would you tell them if somebody reading our interview thinks, "I would like to do something about this the way these AIDS activists are organizing"?
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One common object of our ressentiment — an impotent mix of envy and hatred — was Rajiv Gandhi, the deceased father of main opposition leader Rahul Gandhi, whom Mr. Modi indecorously but cunningly chose to denounce in his election campaign.
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But the governor and Democratic and Republican lawmakers depicted the N.C.A.A. as politically impotent in California, the nation's most populous state, and its universities as often distracted or resigned in the months leading up to the bill's signing.
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By making himself seem impotent, even if all he really had was a tricky back, he was quietly subverting traditional gender categories, of the kind where action, decisiveness, thrusting forward are necessarily good, and retreat, passivity, flowering all feminine.
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It was definitely funny when Kate, in an impotent rage, shrieked with frustration and kicked her feet through a puddle — but the play didn't let you forget that she was frustrated because she was getting married against her will.
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Other people who shot the videos appear to be under the impression that destroying the Keurigs will make liberals angry, instead of belly-laughing at the view of conservatives destroying their own coffee machines in a fit of impotent rage.
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After months of sneering dismissals and expensive but impotent attacks from Republicans fearful of his candidacy, Mr. Trump is now positioned to clinch the required number of delegates for the nomination by the last day of voting on June 7.
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I liked the idea that someone would be so mad about something that their best idea would include ripping open a cereal box to get a fake police badge—a character with both righteous and, on the other hand, impotent anger.
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And on Thursday, Gorsuch proved that he truly is his mother's son, handing down an opinion in which he threatens to give Republicans on the Supreme Court veto power over countless federal regulations—and potentially render the EPA an impotent husk.
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Under a reasonable interpretation, the conclusion of the U.S. combat mission in Afghanistan should have rendered the 2001 AUMF impotent just as the conclusion of the Iraq War in 2011 should have rendered moot the 2002 AUMF that authorized that war.
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Watching the characters burrow deeper into their own insecurities or snarl at each other in impotent rage can feel like the show is trying to rip out your guts and leave you to make sense of the carnage that remains.
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The militants frequently attack vaccination teams — leading to a brief rise of the epidemic in Pakistan — and have spread propaganda that the vaccines are part of a Western conspiracy to make Muslims impotent or stunt the growth of their children.
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The consequences were far-reaching — Ned's execution, the War of the Five Kings, the deaths of his brothers Renly and Stannis, the cruel rule of King Joffrey, the impotent rule of King Tommen, the fall and ascension of his scheming widow.
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In some ways, the change reflects a larger trend: former strongholds of the left deserting the Socialist Party, whose leadership proved impotent over the last five years, for the economic protectionism and strong sense of identity of the National Front.
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In 603, when he was in his early 260s and still living in Zurich, where he was born, he put together a handmade book, "21 Fotos," which included two zoo pictures of caged animals snarling in impotent fury at their confinement.
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Impotent in the face of a party that defied all political convention and wisdom with its victory in the last election, and unwilling to reshape a political order that offers them sinecures, political elites have only indignation and repetition as recourse.
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The artist spoke, cultishly, of protecting his work from "the eyes of the vulgar and the cruelty of the impotent," and narrowed his art's halcyon range of associated senses—a visual music conjuring touch, taste, and scent—to dour monotony.
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As a result of all this weathervaning, Ryan is now loathed by the Trumpster Visigoth wing of the Republican Party and held in contempt by its impotent #NeverTrump remnant, who are spending the fall crucified on Jeb's old exclamation point.
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" Then Cooper invoked the nightmare — and he was worried about way more than pagers: "Within minutes of the start of a new Pearl Harbor attack, we wouldn't feel anything on Earth, and suddenly we'd be deaf, dumb, blind, spastic and impotent.
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" When Dr. Bourgain was stuck on the problem he was working on, Dr. Milman said, he would work through the other one — which he knew how to work through — to reassure himself that he had not become "impotent in mathematics.
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Here is the statement, which blamed the gun lobby's influence for Congress's "paralysis" on guns: 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.
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Literally, the metaphor could not be more of an anvil in some ways, with him being literally impotent but him getting his balls back in the middle of the episode, I hope is going to be a very satisfying moment for the audience.
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He's an outsider, not born of a noble house, who embraces other Klingon outcasts — the perfect populist to rally Klingons who are feeling impotent as their increasingly irrelevant empire loses ground to the progressive Federation while the Klingon elite bicker among themselves.
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The songs about depression capture the dull, impotent rage of being bored and paralysed by your own low mood, and the songs about mania are a fired up retelling of all of the arrogance, hubris and revelation involved in a delusional state.
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The Elementary Particles (1998) specifically comes to mind: a novel in which Houellebecq dissects the relationship between two brothers by carving out their differences: one is the intellectual, the other is a sexually impotent, sex-hungry, misogynistic, quintessentially French middle-aged man.
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Seuss I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
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It would help to know the original call and it was hard to tell anything since while the Penguins were celebrating you guys stood around like impotent idiots working up the courage to ask a woman if you can buy her a drink.
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There was the story of nearby Mr. Yao, whose wife had divorced him after a dorsal neurectomy left him impotent—he'd subsequently climbed to the roof of his local health commission to douse himself in oil and threaten to light a match.
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McMaster also assembled a portfolio of damning evidence against military leaders, who, knowing that Johnson and McNamara would accept nothing less than uncritical support, became "yes men," rendering themselves impotent, even as they disagreed with the premise and direction of the war.
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The presumption that gay people were emasculated, weak, impotent had been defied by the Stonewall uprising, but this was something new: not people cornered by the police who fought back, but an open and immediate assertion by people who unprovoked declared their identity.
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In a wonderful scene, the rest of the younger boys — furious at being abandoned by their older member — attack the car's doors with their bare palms and then, seen recedingly through the rear window, tear their own hovel to pieces in impotent rage.
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Most intimate of all is team Giuliani's startling revelation—supported by doctors—that hormone treatments, including the drug lupron, and radiation have left the mayor impotent (temporarily, he hopes) and so lacking in testosterone that he and Nathan cannot enjoy their relationship to the fullest.
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From Hopper's impotent man-rage at a telekinetic child (but really at himself) to Bob's soft, dedicated heroism and brutal slaughter, we see an unusually candid spectrum of the ways men can be horrible and (in part) purified through emotional growth, personal trials, and empathy.
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Voila, fait accompli, the war ends before the punishment arrives, and Russia walks away with a clear victory: annexing NATO countries (or at least parts of them), demonstrating that the US is impotent, and presenting NATO and the European Union with some major existential crises.
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While tech higher ups awkwardly rub shoulders with Trump and his tech whisperer Peter Thiel, tech platforms still engage in petty, irrelevant protests against Trump, such as Twitter's comically impotent threat to possibly ban Trump's account if he violates their Kafkaesque terms of service.
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But it did leave liberalism in a curious place throughout the 1980s: atop the commanding heights of culture yet often impotent in Washington, D.C. By nominating a Trump rather than a Nixon or a Reagan, the Republicans may have saved liberalism from repeating that trajectory.
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That's what Democrats who support the filibuster are implicitly promising: a return to Obama-era politics, in which Democrats propose things, Republicans block them, and in the subsequent void of accomplishment, political life is filled with impotent, symbolic partisan jousting, grievances and counter-grievances.
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It feels like an ill-fitting end for such a tremendous player—who, on a side note, put up six points in 22 minutes today—to be tied down to an impotent backcourt and general malaise halfway across the country from his NBA origin story.
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The Department of Defense is moving $20203 billion out of a military personnel fund to be used to construct 57 miles of border "wall" — provoking strident (but impotent) objections from Democrats in Congress and setting up a big fight over next year's Pentagon budget.
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I mean the war against the Islamic State, whose expansion was the defining foreign policy calamity of Barack Obama's second term, whose executions of Americans made the U.S.A. look impotent and whose utopian experiment drew volunteers drunk on world-historical ambitions and metaphysical dreams.
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If there's a chance that you might not be able to have children or it might make you impotent, or cause erectile dysfunction... I just think if you asked me now and said, 'it's a new thing we're trying,' I'd say 'absolutely no chance.
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Most people living in lawless parts of Mexico -- those places, particularly some locations near the border, that are ruled by organized crime, besieged by gang violence and virtually unprotected by an impotent or coopted police force -- have no such option of a safe harbor.
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Already, in Alabama and Florida, legislators and officials have put forth proposals to arm teachers and beef up armed security around schools — a method that is a popular answer from gun rights activists and an impotent endeavor in the eyes of gun control activists.
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But "Night" is a really good season finale, if only because it manages to tie together so many of the season's most pressing conflicts and themes and the characters they center on: June's fear versus her determination, Serena Joy's impotent fury, the Commander's willful oblivion.
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Stuff your face with food to make you feel whole; do whatever it takes; this is your only chance at feeling anything beyond the blinding impotent rage of a generation left little more than the rotting capitalistic corpse of a system built on pain and suffering.
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Whether it's Republicans expanding Medicaid or cash-strapped cities handing over bus service to Uber and Lyft, eventually costs shift from taxpayers to the users of the services, oversight becomes impotent as officials grow reliant on outsourcing contracts, and attempts to maximize profits lead to service breakdowns.
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A top DOJ official just outlined why the agency has everything it needs to go after Big Tech — and Facebook, Google, and Amazon should be nervous Facebook's shareholder meeting was a sad display of impotent groveling, and it's the future in store for many other investors
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If she's wrong, the June 22010 meeting will look like a giant unforced error that unnecessarily prolonged an era in which the Fed proved impotent to get inflation up to the 22017 percent level it aims for and lost credibility needed to fight the next downturn.
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If bigotry were truly an impotent force in Republican politics, other candidates would be leapfrogging each other to denounce the ad, not as "unserious," but as racist, and not just because racism is wrong, but because they want the national Republican Party to avoid the California party's fate.
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As they're now testing the fences using this new propaganda technique — an intrusive and impotent straw ban today with promises of follow-up bans tomorrow — it's time to stop being pliant and start issuing warnings: You can have my straw when you pry it from my cold, dead mouth.
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Argus' tale feels both incoherent and impotent compared to the chilling season 1 episode "A Murder of Gods," which used Vulcan, now the god of guns (Corbin Bernsen), to introduce the concept of the Old Gods finding renewed purpose and power with the help of the New Gods.
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Poor Paul Zipser got caught with no rim protection as Simmons bore down on him during Chicago's win over Philly on Monday night: The handle, speed, size and ability to finish at the rim aren't the only attributes that let Big Ben get away with an impotent outside shot.
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Harry's fight against the evil wizard Voldemort affected their entire magical world, but putting a teenage magic-school dropout at the forefront of a vast and complicated war often meant reducing the Potterverse to one hero, his friends, and a useless backdrop of frightened bystanders and fumbling, impotent bureaucrats.
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Clearly, Trump is trying to step away from the role of impotent advocate for more controversial issues, such as climate change, LGBTQ, women's health and the Syrian refugee crisis, which many political watchers had hoped she would take up as the more moderate voice in her father's administration.
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Interactive: 2016 election candidates Yet remarkably, and to the impotent frustration of their rivals, Trump and Cruz have emerged in a logic-defying election season as vessels for the livid Republican grass-roots, fanning flames around illegal immigration and the plight of blue-collar workers left behind by globalization.
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The impotent narrator begins to fantasize of his deep desire to become invisible but also sexually potent, not out of a yearning to satisfy his wife but to be able to harass and viciously rape the antagonistic police officer perpetually and without him knowing what is happening to him.
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Today, members of the "human biodiversity movement" enthusiastically tweet and blog about discoveries in molecular genetics that they mistakenly believe support the ideas that inequality is genetically determined; that policies like a more generous welfare state are thus impotent; and that genetics confirms a racialized hierarchy of human worth.
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With his death, the so-called greatest deliberative body in the world is reduced to an impotent collection of mostly small-minded men who will grovel before the president no matter how he demeans the office and no matter how many of our institutions and values he destroys.
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And for this month's feature section, R. W. McMorrow investigates the unregulated Chinese hospitals that are making men impotent, tricking women into aborting healthy fetuses, and killing patients through negligence; and Mansi Choksi and Kim Wall visit a mall at the center of China's transformation of East Africa.
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The band has been perfecting their brand of turbulent space-grunge and post-punk to an obsessive degree and [Mental Hoop], chugging mightily along at an all too brief 35 minutes, is a terrific encapsulation of their ethos: momentum, impotent rage, repetition, and just enough ragged melody to keep hope afloat.
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Also: Calamitous. Irresponsible. Inexperienced. Unprepared. Undisciplined. Uninformed. Unimproved. Unpopular. Bumbling. Embarrassing. Flimsy. Flailing. Failing. Harmful. Hurtful. Hateful. Shortsighted. Half-baked. Irrelevant. Puny. Piddling. Paltry. Petty. Immature. Infantile. Impulsive. Trite. Tiresome. Stale. Superficial. Small. Meager. Impotent. Limp. Obstructive. Destructive. Damaging. Distracted. Despised. Backwards. Reckless. Bumbling. Bungling. Blind. Arrogant. Rude. Mean. Tacky.
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" Referring to the Rocket Man reference as well as the threat to total destroy North Korea, Drezner said that "all its going to do is freak the media out; it's not going to have any effect on North Korea, except to make us look impotent when we don't follow through.
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In reality, the health care fiasco shows just how fragile our democratic safeguards have become, how the fate of millions is dependent on the whim of a few individuals who are willing to buck factional loyalty, and how impotent most of us are when it comes to swaying this debate.
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A particularly wonder/terrible example of this kind of exchange took place over the weekend when NASCAR Truck Series drivers John Wes Townley and Spencer Gallagher came to impotent blows, one stripe white belt takedowns, and a DDT attempt after a crash at the Drivin' For Linemen 210 at Gateway Motorsports Park yesterday.
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This astonishing matriarch — who married the sexy "Black Jack" Bouvier and then the impotent Hugh Auchincloss; who impregnated herself with Hugh's sperm (using a spoon to do so, in his stepson Gore Vidal's account) and thus conceived two children — is by no means unknown, although Taraborrelli brings her to splendid renewed life.
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" A scandal erupted in Moscow political circles, and Putin's human-rights ombudswoman—whose position is a thankless, largely impotent one, but with a relatively high profile—said that Kadyrov's "statements are not only pointless but also harmful, because they render a disservice to the President and cast a shadow on the country.
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The choice is made simpler by the deep, disembodied voice of the Venom Symbiote (Hardy is credited with the voice acting), who, since it's bonded with Brock and knows his thoughts and tendencies, is quick to point out all of the wrong decisions that led to Brock becoming such an impotent loser.
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It is not hard to see why an episode of "Reply All", another Gimlet show, in which a medical con man implanted goat testicles into impotent men, attracted the attention of Hollywood heavyweights Richard Linklater and Robert Downey Jr. But studio executives should take the nature of the podcast into consideration before snapping up rights.
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" The pressure on Mr. Gardner mounted on Monday when the Lincoln Project, a group of Republicans that describes itself as "dedicated to defeating President Trump and Trumpism," targeted him in a brutal advertisement that described the Colorado senator as "just another Trump servant — weak, frightened, impotent — a small man, terrified of a political bully.
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Because things got better all over thanks to the EU and the potential benefits of entrepreneurial activity outweighed the risks… because of the EU. Now as the Brexit vote is quickly swallowed by the news cycle (and will probably be remembered as a polarizing but ultimately impotent squib), it's time for Continental Europe to step it up.
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By the end of 2012, Putin was back as the president for a third term; dozens of opposition activists were in prison; the protests had curdled into an impotent intramural squabble; my job, meanwhile, turned out to involve an endless string of lunches and launches that seemed increasingly obscene as the Third Rome burned around me.
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But very few members are willing to pull that trigger and you know, you have people like Jordan and Meadows and I hope a host of others that will start to understand it is one of the constitutional levers that is given to the power of Congress to stand up for itself because right now they&aposre totally impotent.
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Over the last ten years, the band has been perfecting their brand of turbulent space-grunge and post-punk to an obsessive degree and the new record, chugging mightily along at an all too brief 35 minutes, is a terrific encapsulation of their ethos: momentum, impotent rage, repetition, and just enough ragged melody to keep hope afloat.
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A recent Daily Caller article accusing her of hypocrisy on taxes was a bit more sophisticated, but just gave her the opportunity to describe herself as being pro–small business: All this is being celebrated by lefties who spent years fuming at Obama's impotent attempts at compromise with a Republican Party that wouldn't give him anything.
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Threat modeling, the suggestion there was how would press freedom begin to disappear in the United States, how might that actually happen, or how would the press become a completely impotent force, what would be the steps, what would be the warning signs, and try and articulate them before they happen so that you know what to look for.
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"The notion of misleading an average person ... in order to evaluate this policy as good, bad or pretty much impotent — which is what I see it as — you would need to know what the process of adjudication is here and how they're considering these issues," Britt Paris, an expert on audiovisual manipulation at Rutgers University, told The Hill.
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Retired Air Force colonel David Antoon agreed to pay $100 to settle what were once felony charges for emailing his former Cleveland Clinic surgeon articles the doctor found threatening and posting a list on Yelp of all the surgeries the urologist had scheduled at the same time as the one that left Antoon incontinent and impotent a decade ago.
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The details of the Dalís' relationship are hazy, with reports variously that the surrealist was a virgin when he met his wife, that masturbation was his near-only source of sexual release, that he was a voyeur and preferred to watch Gala sleep with other men, that he was impotent, and that he had an affair with Spanish poet Federico García Lorca.
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And like thousands and hundreds of thousands of men and women in law enforcement, we are just damn embarrassed and hang our heads in shame with the likes of Comey and his cabal as well as the impotent inspector general&aposs report which is nothing more than proof the deep state is alive and well in Washington, DC. That&aposs my open.
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Add in Mary Lou Barebone's badly abused orphan horde (including We Need to Talk About Kevin's Ezra Miller, in a hideously embarrassing haircut that constitutes child abuse on its own) and another fumbling, impotent bureaucracy (led with stately gravity by Selma's Carmen Ejogo), and Fantastic Beasts starts feeling exactly like its source material: more an encyclopedia of story elements than an actual story.
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In "Thirty Years Later," written in 1995 as the preface to a Spanish edition of that book, she harrumphs at what remained of the sixties—its insolence, its impotent fury, its yen for levelling hierarchies—and laments what didn't: the bravery, the élan that had driven her to espouse an "erotics of art" or to herald destruction as a creative impulse.
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"The turmoil on the left mirrors that of Republicans in the first two years of Mr. Obama's administration, when Democrats controlled all the levers of government and left the Tea Party-inflected Republican Party to thrash around in impotent protest, raging with an energy that eventually propelled it back to power," the N.Y. Times' Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns write.
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Then, when all possibilities are gone, the romantic as well as the sexual, there is only the biological inevitability of man as aging, wounded animal, his flagging sex drive accentuated by the modernity that on the one hand offers Captorix pills and on the other hand torments the now impotent pill-taker by parading an endless array of youthful sexual bodies past him.
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Charles II of Spain was a mass of genetic problems: his head was too big for his body and his tongue was too big for his mouth, so that he had difficulty speaking, and constantly drooled; his first wife complained that he suffered from premature ejaculation and his second wife that he was impotent; as if that wasn't enough, he also suffered from convulsions.
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They write off the accurate assessments of anti-Trump Republicans like Steve Schmidt or Democrats like Senator Brian Schatz as the impotent complaints of political losers, knowing the public will learn about the assault of a reporter as an essentially partisan spat that centrist pundits, out of fear of bad-faith accusations of bias, will blame on broken politics instead of defending their own interests effectively.
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Mr. Refn's name has at various times been attached to big-budget remakes, but his follow-up to "Drive" was widely panned: The garishly violent "Only God Forgives" (2013) featured Mr. Gosling as an impotent mama's boy and a foul-mouthed Kristin Scott Thomas as his cruel mother, facing off against a stoic Bangkok detective who sings karaoke when he's not mutilating victims with a sword.
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It delves into the vast web of Harvey Weinstein enablers: the agents who ignored complaints and continued to set up meetings; the lawyers who wrote nondisclosure agreements and settlement offers; the journalists who fed information; and even the junior staffers, who were forced to compile internal "bibles" about how to best facilitate his encounters and procure his penile injection shots (yup, Mr. Weinstein was impotent).
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Because there is no convincing argument for Brock to remain an impotent loser, a cynical but compelling idea emerges amid Venom's incessant juvenile taunts: If we're all stuck living in this terrible world together, perhaps it's time to stop clinging to the better instincts that render us weak and powerless, and do what needs to be done to attain the power to make things better.
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"The media's obsession with vilifying conservatives -- whether it's calling Americans who want immigration controls bigots, slandering those who push for school choice as anti-teacher, or claiming those who seek to block-grant medicaid to the states want to push granny off a cliff -- is the very reason we're not going to apologize for standing up against the oppressive political correctness the leftist media uses in its impotent attempt to silence their political opponents."
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It wouldn't be like not just sleeping with your ex, but continuing to live in their house and seeing their big spiteful face every morning until you start to feel your body stewing and boiling in impotent rage and you find yourself entertaining violent fantasies of murder-suicide and body parts splattered all over their obsessive imitation of a happy home; it wouldn't be like that; it wouldn't be like that at all.
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I have found our experience with negative Yelp reviews to often involve truly miserable, impotent people who give one-star reviews for things like the 103s music playing the day he came to eat was not ironic 80s music, but 80s music that the staff seemed to be seriously enjoying; the perceived sexual preference of a staff member, who she witnessed interview a new hire, had too much "flamboyance;" my wearing a hat with a dress was disheveled to her.
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As a small forward in lineups that almost always featured at least one big who couldn't stretch the floor (Joakim Noah, Willie Hernangomez, Kyle O'Quinn, etc.) plus impotent outside threats like Derrick Rose and Brandon Jennings in the backcourt, only 12.7 percent of Anthony's field goal attempts came within three feet of the rim (down from 993 percent the previous season), and of the 90 forwards who attempted at least 150 shots in the restricted area last season, Anthony's 54.2 percent ranked 84th.
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The powerful Protestant establishments that would have once celebrated the quincentenary wholeheartedly are mostly weak or impotent or gone, and while the disreputable sort of Calvinist and the disreputable sort of Catholic still brawl online, in official ecclesiastical circles the rule is to speak of the Reformation in regretful tones, like children following a bad divorce who hope that now that many years have passed the divided family can come together for a holiday, or at least an ecumenical communion service.
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It rendered impotent any Northern ordinances designed to protect fugitives; compelled citizens to assist in capturing them; set harsh civil and criminal punishments for failing to do so; created a legal document ordering a specific fugitive to be returned to his or her master that could not be challenged in any court of law; and established a fee system whereby officials adjudicating fugitive-slave cases earned ten dollars if they decided in favor of the owner and five if they decided for the slave.
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In addition to feminist retailers, Lieberman braids in stories of men like Ted Marche, whose family business — employing his wife and teenage children — began by making prosthetic strap-ons for impotent men; Gosnell Duncan, who made sex aids for the disabled and was the first to expand dildo production beyond the Caucasian pink once called "flesh colored"; the Malorrus brothers, who were gag gift manufacturers (think penis pencil toppers); and the hard-core porn distribution mogul Reuben Sturman, who repeatedly, and eventually disastrously, ran afoul of the law.
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He knew he was, sensing the coming future, but went on with binaries because they worked to bring a larger point—media trains the viewer to be the subject, and to be pleased, objectifying nudes, but at some point in the saturation of media, oversaturation, and in the pornographic objectification of bodies, the viewer disappears into narcissism and alienation, or into perversions, into wanting to be objectified—individualization goes too far and the viewer is too trained from childhood's rupture between vision and language, to training, to internalized self-scrutiny against the dominant values of power, sexual power, and greed, that the viewer is eventually maddened, alienated, narcissistic, and impotent.
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