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.
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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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.
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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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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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.
Because the Bank had essentially been rendered impotent by losing its supervisory power.
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In the process your brand is rendered impotent in terms of sustainability.
Hershel, as the Wise Old Adviser, remains largely impotent, his advice consistently falling on deaf ears and thick skulls.
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But even if the dilemma of Somalia is insoluble, it should not deter Western nations from efforts to defeat the pirates or at least render them impotent to threaten Western interests.
Hugh separated from Wynne's mother about the time he was born, and was impotent, anti-Semitic and alcoholic.
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Helpless, Grynszpan followed the plight of these stateless Jews in the French newspapers and worked himself into an impotent rage.
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In the euro-zone crisis the threat of sovereign default renders some governments impotent, while those which could act have chosen not to do so decisively.
In an economy of declining velocity, the quantity of money and interest rates are both impotent.
But with only about 10, 000 often ineffectual troops and police, well short of the 26, 000 that were promised by the end of this year, UNAMID remains pretty impotent.
In the U.S., our own unemployment rate, while still half of that in Spain or Greece, is unlikely to fall while growth in the U.S. remains anemic and policymaking impotent.
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American officials deem Mr Zardari corrupt and impotent, and accuse military intelligence of colluding with the Taliban.
The opposite theory is that Mr Brown will be beholden and thus impotent.
It depicts Kemal struggling with his ambitions to make the perfect society match, even though his desire for Fusun renders him impotent with Sibel.
Somalia's government troops, some trained by Kenya, have also been battling al-Shabab near the Kenyan Somali border and they do not want to be portrayed as impotent forces in need of foreign help.
After the 10-wicket capitulation in the second Test at Headingley, England's problems were compounded by another impotent first-innings batting display.
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