Sentence examples for Made powerless from inspiring English sources

These repressed instinctual impulses, however, are not always made powerless by this process.

However, we had seen that a powerful, arrogant, rich and confident elite can be made powerless by the actions of ordinary people".

Although his hopes for moderate reform collapsed when his chosen archbishop, Edmund Grindal, was made powerless following a quarrel with the Queen, Burghley could not afford to weaken the Puritan militants against aggressive Catholicism.

Such tendencies are described as "repressed". They remain unconscious; and if the physician attempts to bring them into the patient's consciousness he provokes a "resistance". These repressed instinctual impulses, however, are not always made powerless by this process.

What these ISIS films reflect is what I have called the "esthetic component" of terrorism, where extremely stark and graphic images of violence are used to strengthen, uplift, and essentially empower terrorist perpetrators, while the target population, what Martha Crenshaw would call the "secondary audience," is simultaneously denigrated, emasculated, and made powerless to control events.

She is made powerless and frustrated by the opposition constructed during the course.

In addition to a criminal justice approach in the struggle against slavery there is a need for a human rights one: slavery is inflicted on those that society has sought to make powerless.

Can we make powerless people more visible, give them a voice?

The past has made us powerless.

He destroyed the countries and made them powerless and he made the sea their frontier.

"They have made Japan powerless to stand up to China and Korea," said Mr. Sakurai, who refused to give his real name.