Sentence examples for be powerless to control from inspiring English sources

While civilian doctors may be powerless to control what occurs behind the locked doors of a military facility, we should make every effort to prevent the physicians involved in these breaches of human rights from obtaining state medical licenses after they leave the military.

Critics fear that even if Los Angeles prohibits what City Councilman Mike Bonin has dubbed "bad" rentals — operators buying up apartments or homes and renting them out nonstop like hotels — it will be powerless to control them unless platforms turn over information about their hosts, an idea that Airbnb has resisted.

Police are powerless to control the flow.

The referee is powerless to control what's going on.

He dismissed claims that Mr. Abbas and the Palestinian Authority were powerless to control extremists.

— His home run swing is so instinctual that Adrian Beltre is powerless to control it.

He simply liked to embroil human characters in political (or religious) clashes that they were powerless to control.

Although the circumstances were very different, both leaders were powerless to control the events that thundered around them.

Unlike the boys in Breezing Up or the fisherman in Fog Warning, this man is powerless to control his vessel.

will.i.am went further, pointing out that artists foot the bill to make their music videos, but are powerless to control the ads shown around them.

In a speech to munitions workers on Christmas Day 1915 he acknowledged that the world crisis had become an earthquake, a convulsion of nature, which was unleashing forces that statesmen were powerless to control, much less to stop.