Now men have the perfect excuse to avoid shopping... it could make them impotent.
Mr Frauenfelder rightly highlights the impotent fury aroused by tamper-proof tabs seals, and the joy of mastering recalcitrant gadgets.
Watching "Iron Felix" sway in mid-air, Mr Kondaurov, who had served in the KGB since 1972, felt betrayed "by Gorbachev, by Yeltsin, by the impotent coup leaders".
If anything, President Dmitry Medvedev and his mentor and prime minister, Vladimir Putin, seem to be enjoying the world’s impotent indignation in the face of their new-found machismo.
Don't make him feel impotent about work.
In Mr Greenspan's telling, central Banks were innocent and impotent bystanders in a global macroeconomic shift.
So he curses existence, curses God at having made him so impotent that he can't change the fact that two plus two equals four.
Sara realizes that one of the bars she's cuffed to is loose, and to buy time, begins taunting T-Bag, telling him that his medical records at Fox River indicate that he's impotent.
Caveats: 1 in humans, the corresponding gene is impotent.
It was seen as infirm, feeble and impotent. China also won the great prize of peace.
They looked at the repeated attempts by the Bank of Japan to pull its economy out of a deflationary mindset and concluded that other central banks might prove equally impotent.
I knew we had no chance. We felt impotent.
Despite looking rather impotent at times in qualifying, Portugal will see this as a chance to stake an early claim on second place.
God is either impotent, evil, or imaginary.
Yet the Arab leaders' inability to protect the Lebanese people makes them look impotent on the regional stage and weak at home.
The roofs were impotent against an aerial bombardment, but now, life is once again very good.
The G8 is not the only global club that looks old and impotent (see article).
In particular, he sees another flurry of quantitative easing by the U.S. Federal Reserve as being "impotent."
We're neither omnipotent nor impotent.
As an alternative to this impotent "realism," I'd like to propose a clear-eyed idealism, which recognizes that these are bad times but refuses to accept that the bad times are inevitable.
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