Sentence examples for became helpless from inspiring English sources

But as soon as they descended into the Amazon forests they became helpless incompetents".

I was amazed how quickly Joe became helpless, and how eagerly we took to our task.

"One of the contestants ordered the bartender to put a raw egg into each drink; the other protested, but in vain, and took his 'straight.' The man who took the eggs won and was able to walk home, while the other became helpless").

I became helpless and hopeless.

He writes: "We wanted to find out who never became helpless, so we looked systematically at the way that subjects interpreted bad events.

'The rescuers couldn't get to us' Major bodies of water overflowed into homes of both the rich and the poor, children were separated from their mothers, the elderly became helpless against the raging floodwaters and people could be seen from the rooftops of their homes waiting for help to come.

In extreme cases, a loss of control can lead to a condition known as learned helplessness, in which a person becomes helpless to influence his own environment.

Perhaps the most painful truth that must be confronted is that, faced with the helplessness of children, social workers themselves can become helpless because they find the children's suffering unbearable.

Martin Seligman's Learned Helplessness theory indicates depressed people have learned to become helpless and have feelings of futility and control over their lives.

Now we have become helpless, we can't help the people living there for more the 30 years.

The other objection is that churches and synagogues taking such money will become helpless dependents of federal bureaucrats and compromise their religious missions.