… the growing impotence of governments in the face of corporate willfulness and regional factionalism. Alan Wexelblat
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: an abnormal physical or psychological state of a male characterized by inability to engage in sexual intercourse because of failure to have or maintain an erection : erectile dysfunction
the congressional committee's essential impotence in affecting the management of the war was frustrating to its members
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ADJECTIVE | VERB + IMPOTENCE | PHRASESADJECTIVE➤relative (especially BrE) 相對無能◇the relative impotence of individual governments in the face of global forces各國政府面對全球力量時的相對無能➤male陽痿▸➤political, sexual政治無能;性無能VERB + IMPOTENCE➤cure, treat治瘉/治療無能◇drugs which have been used to treat male impotence已經用於治療陽痿的藥物➤cause導致無能PHRASES➤a feeling of impotence, a sense of impotence無可奈何之感◇Violence may result from a sense of impotence.暴力可能源自無能為力的感覺。