Sentence examples for a helpless state from inspiring English sources

She told Sky News: "It's really tough coming on to the island, we're in a bit of a helpless state.

The very point of the contest is to render an opponent temporarily unconscious or to bruise and bloody him into a helpless state of "technical" knockout.

When the seas rose earlier this week, swamping the world's greatest city and battering a helpless state, the turbulence of the elements washed away the sand castles of politics.

Yet when her heart developed an irregular rhythm that would have soon been fatal, the doctor in charge implanted a pacemaker, which kept her alive another five years in a helpless state "lacking all dignity, totally contrary to her written request," Dr. Wanzer wrote.

The European Arrest warrant cited by the High Court judgement refers to an offence on 17 August of rape, by "improperly exploiting that she, due to sleep, was in a helpless state".

However, uncrushing can leave Danny in a helpless state, such as hanging in mid-air.

The Swedish Penal Code defines assault as a crime in which an offender inflicts bodily injury, illness, or pain to another person or renders a person powerless or in a similar helpless state (Swedish Code of Statutes 1962 700).

And I ask you, how can it be that a people with our powers of creativity and regeneration, a nation that has known how to pick itself up out of the dust time and again, finds itself today - precisely when it has such great military power - in such a feeble, helpless state?

Your priority is to take care of them while they feel like they are in in a scared, helpless state.

As is the case with many elderly people, my fear of hospitals is directly related to the fear of being put in some sort of time warp of machine-generated life support, tortured with tubes and left to rot in an undignified and helpless state with no hope of recovery, a heartbreaking burden to my children.

Its helpless state mandates birth in a den, an environment in which it lives for the first 100 120 days of life.