The phrase "and were not empowered" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where individuals or groups lacked the authority or ability to act or make decisions.
Example: "The committee faced numerous challenges, and were not empowered to make significant changes to the policy."
Alternatives: "and lacked the authority" or "and did not have the power".
The panel will have no subpoena authority and is not empowered to do its own inquiry, although it can request additional data from Israeli and Turkish officials.
That information was enough to warrant our lowest investment-grade rating (BBB-), but has now been shown just like the audited accounts themselves to have been utterly misleading.Rating agencies are not auditors or investigators and are not empowered or able to unearth fraud.
For example, the sufferers of such behaviour in our study are poor women who access care in public facilities and are not empowered to demand quality services, as might be their rich counterparts or male care seekers; poverty and female gender being contributors to abuse.
Despite being self-employed, these women were not empowered to achieve social and economic autonomy [ 25].
In vetoing the bill, Mayor George B. McClellan Jr. maintained that the aldermen were not empowered to ban smoking.
The problem was not that regulators were not empowered, the problem was that they were not alarmed.
The HIV/AIDS pandemic has a woman's face, and if women and girls are not empowered, especially in terms of their own sexuality, the pandemic will never end.
If no-one knows how long it is reasonable to wait for cataract surgery in the local public hospital, then the community just accepts whatever time is offered and the health services and optometrists are not empowered to remonstrate for change.
This is coupled with a culture of silence, where women and girls are not empowered enough to speak out and where abuse, discrimination and inequality are socially acceptable.
