Sentence examples for actually powerless from inspiring English sources

What might he have done differently (or was he actually powerless)?

The increasing surveillance and tsunami of new laws are merely the largely impotent reaction of a government that wants to be seen to be doing something and "sending messages" when it is actually powerless to deal with Britain's worsening social breakdown.

Since President Obama is not Congress, he doesn't get to write the bills and is actually powerless to make such deals.

"I feel really powerless".

The characters in "Waste" live and even die for ideas like church disestablishment and free education for all of Britain's children, a woman's right not to bear children, the chasm between private misdeeds and public honor and for the question of whether absolute power corrupts absolutely or can permit compromises that actually benefit the powerless.

When maybe, when I'm just numbed out, I actually feel completely powerless.

"We're slowly learning that science is actually sort of powerless to fix the things that have already gone wrong.

The next morning she asked "what about the money?" The president chuckled, "Come on, how could I take money from you?" Brutal gags actually empower the powerless.

Up until that point, I'd never really come to terms with how powerless I actually was.

If you literally stuffed yourself on the language of self-empowerment, would it actually produce a bloated, powerless figure?

The actions reflect the administration's efforts, nearly two months into the crisis, to telegraph a take-charge decisiveness when Mr. Obama and the federal government are all but powerless to actually resolve the calamity, given the sheer technological challenge of plugging a leak a mile below the gulf's surface.