The nobility, reduced to moderation by the enfeebling consequences of extensive foreign wars, became comparatively impotent in their attempted efforts against domestic freedom.

Her tears were gone, but she felt choked, unlike herself, curiously impotent.

Now words thus immaculately conceived and fatefully impotent, words that shamble thus listlessly through life, there are.

In the present age, which is intellectually impotent and remarkable for its veneration of what is bad in every forma condition of things which is quite in keeping with the coined word "Jetztzeit" (present time), as pretentious as it is cacophonicthe pantheists make bold to say that life is, as they call it, "an end-in itself."

The enemy, therefore, must be punished; and his punishment must make him permanently impotent to repeat the offence.

The Diet of Frankfort was pretentious, but practically impotent, and was the laughingstock of Europe.

The natural severity of his temper appeared in a rigorous administration of justice; and having found the happy effects of this plan of government, without which the laws in those ages became totally impotent, he regarded it as a fixed maxim, that an inflexible conduct was the first duty of a sovereign.