But too often we assume we are powerless, so we don't act as if our voices matter.
This simple example shows that, while the existing world order proves powerless to assume its responsibilities, local individuals and groups can make a real difference.
… This simple example shows that, while the existing world order proves powerless to assume its responsibilities, local individuals and groups can make a real difference," the pope wrote.
Put simply, most Americans feel powerless, and assume the political game is fixed.
They assume the government is powerless until a crime has already occurred, the Fourth in particular providing further restraint on how the government investigates after the fact.
She said "'when a major economic and political giant tells you it has direct access to the White House, it's very intimidating.'" She felt powerless, because she assumed no matter what she did, BP would just get a national-security exception to keep selling the oil.
Therefore they are reluctant to assume responsibility and this reluctance has made them more powerless.
The success of this plan gave occasion to Lenin's enemies for a fierce campaign of slander, which, however, was powerless to prevent him from assuming the leadership of his party and shortly afterwards of the revolution.
But he also acknowledges a huge problem: that voters do not know what the parliament does, assuming that it is an expensive and powerless talking-shop.It is certainly true that the parliament has more powers than most voters realise.
Even people who had suffered significant economic loss in the flooding disaster did not want bilateral agencies or Islamist groups simply to assume that their poverty made them politically powerless, unable to exercise political choice or voice.
It's got a battery for propelling itself, and pedals for extra speed, powerless propulsion, or charging the battery (I assume).
