Impotent America?

Half of guys who smoke are impotent.

What should I do if my husband is impotent?

So for women, housework prevents breast cancer, but for men, shopping could make you impotent.

You ll notice the limp cigarette hanging out of his mouth, and impotence the headline is, Impotent it s not emphysema.

At Lystra a certain man sat, impotent in his feet, a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked.

At Lystra a certain man sat, impotent in his feet, a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked.

In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.

In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.

If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole

If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole

And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked

And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked

At the same time, all of our firepower was impotent when it came to halting or even stemming the slaughter in Rwanda, Darfur, Myanmar.

But the ECB s primary responsibility is to achieve and maintain price stability. When conventional interest rate policy becomes impotent, its duty is to rely on other instruments.

The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.

The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.

So the very behaviors that we think of as being so sexy in our culture are the very ones that leave so many people feeling tired, lethargic, depressed and impotent, and that s not much fun.

The United States, which best embodies ultimate power, is less willing and less able to exercise it. And the United Nations, which best embodies the principles of international order, is as divided and impotent as ever.

Most of its people are politically impotent and poor in terms of both wealth and prospects. Islam never experienced something akin to the Reformation in Europe the lines between the sacred and the secular are unclear and contested.

Nicolas Sarkozy s election in France has at least something to do with similar feelings. But anxieties about being swamped by foreigners and dominated by outside powers are more acute in smaller countries, whose political elites seem particularly impotent.

Like most other central banks confronted with the recession, the SNB has reduced its policy interest rate all the way to the zero lower bound. Once there, traditional monetary policy becomes impotent, as the interest rate tool is no longer usable.

So that is where the US is now in the middle of a financial crisis, with the economy sliding into recession, monetary policy already at maximum easing, and fiscal transfers impotent. That is an unenviable situation, to say the least, for any incoming president.

Only in the Philippines do state failure, chronic insurgency, and proliferating ties between local and foreign terrorists come together in a lethal cocktail. Combined with a restive military and an impotent administration, the country has become Southeast Asia s weakest link in the war on terror.

Without the French Revolution, Napoleon Bonaparte would have remained a gifted and frustrated junior military officer. Likewise, the current period in America and its relations with the world have been truly exceptional, requiring a leader who can fundamentally challenge a global majority s view that America has become arrogant, impotent, and selfish.

In terms of media strategy, the contrast between the leaders of the Arab countries and bin Laden could not be starker. On the one hand, Arab kings and presidents lack charisma, seem politically impotent and are rarely, if ever, on message with respect to the big issue concerns of the peoples of the Middle East.

It is nonsense to argue that central banks are impotent and completely unable to raise inflation expectations, no matter how hard they try. In the extreme, governments can appoint central bank leaders who have a long standing record of stating a tolerance for moderate inflation an exact parallel to the idea of appointing conservative central bankers as a means of combating high inflation.

None of this will be easy, not only because Europe s relationship with Russia has grown so chilly, but also because Putin is understood to despise the EU as politically impotent. Russian leaders may have misinterpreted as a sign of weakness Europe s representation at last month s EU Russia summit by two Portuguese politicians European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso and Prime Minister Jose Socrates, whose government currently holds the revolving EU presidency.

Global climate change negotiations have similarly ended in failure, and disagreement reigns concerning how to address food and energy security amid a new scramble for global resources. And, on global geopolitical issues the tensions on the Korean peninsula, Iran s nuclear ambitions, the Arab Israeli conflict, the disorder in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the political transition in autocratic Middle East regimes the great powers disagree and are impotent to impose stable solutions.