The powerlessness of her situation -- indeed, the powerlessness of our shared situation -- had been made painfully clear.
The powerlessness of everyone else in the room was nakedly clear.
The powerlessness of the UN and its associated bodies is palpable.
The powerlessness of poor defendants is becoming even more evident under harsh sentencing schemes created in the past few decades.
The powerlessness of women in the face of their husbands is an issue that crosses class boundaries.
The powerlessness of the individual haunts his stories, the sense of citizens being to multinationals as flies to wanton boys.
The powerlessness of Western governments to control immigration, economic events, radical Islam or Chinese competition have provoked, in the West, the rise of a new, quasi-racist, middle-class, ultra-nationalism.
The powerlessness of the ordinary citizen is symbolised by the huge, impersonal buildings that the villains inhabit.
The powerlessness of not being able to change anything will lead to depression and a serious knock-on effect.
The powerlessness of the poor people of the Philippines is the tragic root of all corruption in the country.
The rest of us felt the powerlessness of resignation.
