One of the most distressing aspects of the WikiLeaks operation is the impotent US response to it.
Amid the overkill, there are scenes of a sudden and startling beauty, and the impotent ranks of teachers are played by a cast of surprising (if underused) power, including Marcia Gay Harden, Christina Hendricks, Blythe Danner, William Petersen, Lucy Liu, a tweedy Tim Blake Nelson, and, best of all, James Caan.
"This act of negligence on the part of the Government, rendered the military impotent to put in place the necessary full range of equipment across the board in order to prosecute a major land campaign, " said Mr Soames.
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And the US appears impotent to prevent the website from carrying through on its latest threat to publish new documents aimed at weakening the US economy next month.
They could not give the Americans what they really wanted a cast-iron guarantee that no American could ever be charged before the court for a war crime without rendering the court impotent.
But since 2011 a simple majority has sufficed (a supermajority is still needed to approve any tax rises), which is why the Republicans were reduced to impotent grouches during the recent debate.
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The Ecuadorian Congress (or assembly) remained impotent in the face of presidential aggressiveness.
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With the hosts looking increasingly impotent up front, it was left to the unlikeliest of sources to force their best effort to that point, John Terry unleashing a 40-yard piledriver that Howard tipped wide.
Look at how impotent the Fed has been in resolving the financial troubles of the past 14 months.
Failure to pass the tax compromise would make the president appear impotent.
Then why in the other instance are the masses so impotent?
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The surge of impotent rage in Gaza over Israel's violence will momentarily boost Hamas's standing, but Gazans may then ask what brought them to this awful pass.
Today, Reid is nothing more than a babbling puppet of Obama, McConnell is far from a lion and the chamber seems impotent to do anything but manage decline.
Plus, the nomination serves to advance a second Obama front in his second term, related somewhat to this assault on the post-World War II military posture: He is seeking to render the American Right impotent as a force for resisting his overall agenda.
He also said in the interview he was 95% impotent and it was one of the reasons he had split up with his girlfriend.
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But the opposition's bigger plan may be to change Russia's system of government from one where the presidency and government are powerful and parliament impotent to one where the power is the other way round.
It is often just a cacophonous cry of protest against the West in general, and American government in particular fuelled by impotent rage over the Great Satan's cultural and geopolitical supremacy.
Sixty percent of men were rendered impotent by the operation, according to one study.
For example it's difficult (though not impossible) to argue that the policy is both impotent and inflationary.
He was impotent at The Belfry after Curtis Strange sent him out last.
It makes you impotent at the negotiating table and it emboldens your opposition.
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The first try came from a grubber-kick that rendered the Welsh defensive line impotent, allowing French backs to pour through and send Grandclaude over for a grand try.
On the night of Mrs Clinton's defeat in Iowa, in retrospect the moment when her campaign was holed below the waterline, the account of her impotent fury is, to put it mildly, unsettling.
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Nobody expects an effective challenge from the host of brave but impotent opposition parties.
The Times Square bomb fizzle has shown the brand to be downright impotent.
It also renders conventional monetary policy impotent, as the interest rate that prevents too much saving is below zero.
In November Palatin unveiled results of tests on 271 older, impotent men: The drug was 75% effective and produced no more side effects than Viagra.
Above all, she is aware of the grunted exertions of a seriously overweight lawyer from Beverly Hills who is now standing over her beating on her skull with the butt of his otherwise impotent Browning.
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