Sentence examples for We were powerless to from inspiring English sources

But we told ourselves that we were powerless to stop it.

Since Shellie and her father refused to prosecute, we were powerless to arrest anyone," he wrote.

Cameron: "They said we were powerless to stop Britain being forced in to an EU army.

It was absolutely intolerable and we were powerless to stop her because she just found the whole thing too devastating.

They intimated that, when it came to refugees, we were powerless to do anything differently and appealed to the basest image of ourselves, as solely self-interested individuals.

Michael was rhyming "go-go" with "yo-yo" and telling somebody to stay in bed with him and hitting delirious high notes, and we were powerless to resist; we couldn't stop dancing.

We must not imagine we are powerless to stop it.

"At the moment we are powerless to stop areas changing.

"We're powerless to do anything," Mr. Gerson said.

But, like Pharrell's Happy two years ago, sometimes we're powerless to resist such unmitigated joy.

We are powerless to stop a huge wave of immigration from southern Europe, he says.