Sentence examples for as a powerless from inspiring English sources

The world sees him as a powerless leader afraid to make the necessary concessions for peace.

Some Romney advisers said Mr. Obama was too willing to avoid accountability by presenting himself as a powerless bystander.

In this triangle, Mr. Hollande is depicted as a powerless and undecided lover who cannot choose between the two women in his life.

He received better reviews for the 1997 drama Cop Land, for which he temporarily shed his sculpted physique and gained weight for his role as a powerless sheriff.

But all that was beside the point: people didn't want Mubarak as a powerless figurehead; they didn't want him at all.

Saudi monarchs could be comfortable with the Brotherhood as a powerless client, but not as an equal ruler of a state.

The Republican machine flourished in Nassau and the Democratic organization withered, its members relegated to running hopeless races or occasionally winning office as part of a powerless minority.

But sure enough, there were people in the audience insisting that Barney Frank, as part of a powerless minority in the House, nonetheless somehow caused the housing bubble and the whole crisis; years of careful, evidence-based refutations have made no impact at all on these people.

As technicians worked on a powerless amp, singer-guitarist Barry Johnson asked to crowd to keep an eye out.

Yet he casts himself as a near powerless observer.

Shostakovich and his librettist, Aleksandre Preys, softened the story, depicting her as a victim, powerless against the abuse of her recriminating father-in-law and pompous husband.