impotent

Preposition: as

• result: For some men who have become impotent as a result of surgery there may be treatment to restore erections.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• render: Comodo Personal Firewall renders malware impotent by preventing malware from making outgoing connections needed to harvest confidential consumer information.

Modifies a noun

• fury: And that, while beating my breast in impotent fury, is why I had to leave.
• rage: At best, there was impotent rage; at worst, a shrug of the shoulders.
• poor: The Elizabethan view of " sturdy beggars " was distinguished from the " impotent poor " in the legislation.
• man: The impotent man has no resource to cure his own disease.
• person: And be it further enacted, That the parents or children of every poor and impotent person.
• people: So, here are these ungodly, impotent people.

Modifying Another Word

• utterly: All power lies with States and alliances between States, while ' humanity ' is left utterly impotent.
• equally: Let the officers be wholly unselfish philanthropists, and they shall be equally impotent.
• largely: Continental electorates have become largely impotent, unable to effect decisive change in policy or in many cases even to change the political leadership.
• completely: In the political and economic spheres this pining for the purity of the Middle Ages is completely impotent.
• so: Nature is what we know - yet have not art to say - so impotent our wisdom is to her simplicity.
• not: Most of all, we are not impotent observers outside nature subject to the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.

Used with adjective complement

• render: Without fuel for energy a country, however powerful is rendered impotent.
• feel: We mustn't let the big boy corporate media make us feel impotent.
• become: I've been a heavy smoker for 40 years, and now I have become impotent.
• make: His limbs were nailed to a cross and made impotent.
• remain: Burke, Canning and Pitt would have remained impotent there.

Preposition: in

• face: Science is impotent in the face of the ultimate issues.