Sentence examples for be powerless to stop from inspiring English sources
Until viability calculations are published, councils will be powerless to stop this great housing con trick.
Were, say, Brazil to default on its debts, even Mr Greenspan would be powerless to stop market meltdown.
With electricity, telecommunications and other markets being liberalized in Europe, analysts argue that in the long run, countries will be powerless to stop foreign takeovers of their assets.
The head of MI5 said Islamist militants were planning other "mass casualty attacks against the west" and that intelligence services might be powerless to stop them.
For more than a decade, the agency's firefighters have been saying that in a drought year they would be powerless to stop the infernos.
The people who came before us didn't know about climate change and the ones who come after will be powerless to stop it.
He was powerless to stop them, the master replied.
Government officials admit they are powerless to stop him.
Nadal was powerless to stop him serving out.
