Sentence examples for Powerless like from inspiring English sources

It made me feel powerless, like I was experiencing something great and sublime.

"But periodically, we do feel powerless, like we don't have a voice.

On the touchline, Betis's assistant manager Eder Sarabia whispered in the ear of coach Quique Setién, the pair powerless like López, convinced they had just been defeated by the best player in history.

These events have left Muñoz-Ballester feeling angry and powerless, like hundreds of other young Spanish scientists.

I felt powerless, like I was stuck". The victim's family, from Essex, believes he should not have been allowed to stay at the school.

Individually, we may feel we are small and powerless, like the little people of the Shire.

Loris is appalled and declares it's as if "a group of people have taken over the running of things and the rest of us are standing by, powerless, watching, like at a car crash".

Many people feel they are in similarly helpless situations: stuck in jobs they don't like, powerless to improve things, devoid of opportunity.

But that was in an era when courts used it mostly to protect powerless people like civil rights activists and war protesters.

As for Dallaire, who is considered a hero in Canada, he explains that he was a powerless victim like the 800,000 dead who continue to haunt him.

It happens because too few people have the courage or capacity to stand against powerful institutions on behalf of powerless creatures like red seed-eating birds".