Just days before, people had been walking to work across the Brooklyn Bridge and through a mostly abandoned and powerless downtown, but now the city was starting to feel more like itself.
Powerless, abandoned by her mother and still recovering from an appendectomy, Nesbit married her torturer.
With his approval rating down to 21 percent and his election campaign already abandoned, he seems powerless to lead lawmakers toward compromise or tough choices.
The re-current theme I have read through countless articles on medical mistakes and medication errors is that patients and their families often feel powerless, abandoned and deceived by the institution.
The failure of that revolution, he said, taught most Hungarians to feel powerless and also abandoned by the West, fostering a suspicion of foreigners that in the post-Communist era and thanks now to the splintering of European opinion over American relations, has bred a dangerous nationalism, which is obviously spreading throughout the former Soviet countries and elsewhere.
So did and do so very many of our bright hopeful kids when they feel powerless and as abandoned as the old hollowed-out Saguaro on which our mailbox used to teeter at the curb.
In a society where members are stratified by wealth and influence, those who live in poverty are perceived as deservingly powerless and ultimately abandoned to accept their temporary crises as permanent.
The Assembly is divided along a variety of geographic and ethnic lines, and has been abandoned by many promising politicians weary of feeling powerless as rank-and-file members.
Outnumbered and powerless to stop the U.S. forces advancing toward them, Indians abandoned their towns to the enemy, who looted and burned them.
Now, housed in an abandoned warehouse on the outskirts of the regional capital of Erbil, some told VICE News that they feel powerless and used for political means by Kurdish authorities.
