Sentence examples for appear helpless from inspiring English sources

The unemployment rate made activist government appear helpless in a crisis.

Sometimes she throws him a compliment; sometimes she tries to appear helpless, which she is not at all.

Allen is gone, and Pierce and Garnett appear helpless to carry this storied franchise through another postseason.

Yet Obama and his party appear helpless, hostages to the same demographic forces they courted, and then rode to power.

Although Jones's face betrays nothing as he rains blows, it is a primal and vicious display, and the opponents appear helpless against his repertory of kicks, punches and elbows.

A complementary theme was the evocation of childhood, idyllic in the case of Johannes Schenk's Dorf unterm Wind, set in the north German village of Worpswede at the end of World War II, and darker in Gert Hofmann's ironically titled Das Glück, a child's-eye view of the breakup of a marriage, in which both parents appear helpless.

They were there on the baseline appearing helpless against precision screens and backdoor cuts.

Hamstrung by a city charter that gave Mr. Gates virtual lifetime tenure, Mr. Bradley appeared helpless to act.

The killings are rarely acknowledged by the group, and the Nigerian government appears helpless to stop them.

The security situation had worsened in recent months, amid a rise in kidnappings and extortions, Mr. Khan added, but the police appeared helpless to respond.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt)., for example, is a Green New Deal proponent, yet he appears helpless to stop the erosion of his support.