Sentence examples for are largely helpless from inspiring English sources

The rebels and the civilians in Aleppo have endured, even though they are largely helpless against aerial assault.

At present, they are largely helpless observers of the bargaining between judge and prosecutor on the length of their client's sentence.

As an added bonus for the curious, the biology is absolutely fascinating: while normally free-living, the bacteria that cause chronic UTI (such as E. coli) have evolved ways to physically invade the cells lining the bladder, taking up residence inside those cells and entering a sort of dormancy where antibiotics and the immune system are largely helpless.

"They just want to erase us from the land". Palestinian officials say they are largely helpless to assist Palestinians in Area C, which they say suffers from higher rates of poverty, hunger and crime than Area A and B. Efforts to build schools, roads or water wells in Area C are often blocked by Israel, they say.

Norma Drummond, the county's deputy planning commissioner, said the county was largely helpless in changing the attitudes of town officials.

In the Bosnian war, for example, many officials say, the Union was largely helpless in terms of any possible joint military intervention.

That same day, ten children in a playground were killed when a jet released a cluster bomb, spraying a cascade of small bomblets, on Deir Assafir, to the east of Damascus, where rebels are moving uncomfortably close to the city for the regime's liking.For all their slow, steady advances on the ground, the fighters have been largely helpless against air attacks.

Consequently, the problems with the potential vulnerabilities of children with disabilities during disasters are poorly understood the children are largely portrayed as "helpless" in the face of disaster (Hahn 1985; Smith et al. 2012; Aron and Loprest 2012).

His starts were largely forgettable, or at worst unsightly, and afterward, he would answer questions in a soft-spoken, modest, almost helpless way.

If that's true, the network was still rendered largely helpless.

The court's decision immediately reminds Austria's political class that it is, in many ways, largely helpless in the face of the rising FPÖ, and that the next presidential elections will take place amidst a political landscape in ruins.