He turned the bureau's news camera on the night sky to record the tracer fire now arcing impotently towards the incoming missiles. |
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Building workers with no experience are taken on for low wages, while hardened professionals watch impotently. |
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The state watches impotently as its culture, beamed in from the coasts, becomes coarser and more offensive by the year. |
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These ordinary people, trying to get on with their normal working lives under terrible conditions, impotently await their fate. |
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Officers carrying out surveillance duties on foreign territory have hitherto had to watch impotently as crimes were committed. |
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How many times have we stood here impotently railing against the way in which Mugabe oppresses his people? |
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It is not like 1994 in Kigali, where nothing could be done, where we had to stand and watch impotently as massacres occurred. |
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I suppose I'll get used to it in a few weeks and won't get so impotently angry at the futility of their actions for which they receive good money. |
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What does it say when the Government sits by impotently when a star witness is gunned down in broad daylight on the Bulgarian Supreme Court steps? |
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Similarly, when neoconservative ideologues speak of needing to rebuild an embattled US hegemony and legitimacy, they aren't impotently expatiating. |
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No more impotently staring at the cars bursting with settler children as they drive right past your nose to that very same beach. |
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For decades, archivists and librarians have been forced to watch impotently as their treasures were destroyed by acid. |
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All while the international community observed, if not passively, impotently. |
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I impotently witness all humanity's race towards spiritual death. |
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As the world has watched impotently, over 110,000 Syrians have died. |
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In calmer water, we could skirt along the bottom of cliffs that sucked and roared impotently as we danced insolently around promontories and slid between rocks and shore. |
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Only if general secondary education stands impotently by, or colludes with the development, will unscrupulous productivism or unbridled consumerism result. |
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But even propping up the bar at Dan's Club was better than sitting impotently back at my desk or in my apartment or in Harriet's house, longing for an unlabored breath. |
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The chief function of Headey, Cersei in Game of Thrones, is to provide a voiceover while Santoro gazes, impotently, in his finest gold lame posing pouch and bondage bling. |
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