Sentence examples for almost powerless from inspiring English sources

Black Alabamians were rendered almost powerless until the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

Mr. Gill added: "He's writing about the Everyman, midlevel people who are almost powerless.

Unbeknownst to many people, the Busch family was almost powerless to fend off InBev.

Torre knows how poorly the Yankees are playing, and he is almost powerless to change it.

But it is a danger railroads are almost powerless to stop.

"They feel almost powerless in the midterms; it's like, we could win a few, we could lose a few".

The best Europe could muster were the almost-powerless E.U. commissioner for external relations, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, and foreign ministers from the current and next countries holding the E.U. presidency, the Czech Republic and Sweden.

The National Assembly — though rendered almost totally powerless by the pro-government Supreme Court — realized it had to push back.

Yet the experts have acknowledged that the government in Baghdad is almost certainly powerless at the moment in terms of holding the fighters accountable.

So it's not that we were clueless, but here's a little secret: we were almost totally powerless over the aesthetic content of the magazine.

When the national grid collapsed in 2012, leaving 700 million people powerless, almost half had so little electricity they barely noticed.