Sentence examples for be powerless to get from inspiring English sources
Sometimes the pent-up urban summer is a study in restlessness, of that inescapable feeling of being where one should not be, powerless to get out.
They will be powerless to get a meaningful response out of their new boss.
To love someone and to know with 99.9% certainty he would be helped by treatment, and yet to be powerless to get that treatment, is an unbearable human situation.
Former FEC lawyer Larry Noble agreed that while this ad would make "an excellent case" for any aggrieved party to bring, the FEC would likely be powerless to get to the bottom of the issue until after the election.
Still, the notion that a president is powerless to get taxpayers' money back is not a particularly satisfying one; what the public wants in these situations "is closure," Mr. Gillespie said.
Allied representatives said the International Committee of the Red Cross has been permitted limited access to Kosovo, but NATO said it is powerless to get relief supplies to those displaced inside the embattled province.
Just think what would it mean if even the President of the United States -- and in particular one who had the status and aura possessed by Barack Obama when he first took office -- was powerless to get the American people to see and condemn the disgraceful behavior of the Republican opposition.
Being alone and without support when you are facing depression is like falling in to a big black hole and once you are in it you are powerless to get out so do not let this happen to you and get help and admit your condition before it is too late.
When he eventually does marry her (mentored by the granny), Vellini bides her time and then shows up, testing her hold over him, hoping that he will be powerless to resist if she gets anywhere near him.
