Sentence examples for but powerless from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile Yasser Arafat, head of the Palestinian Authority (PA) and still leader of the biggest of those "moderate forces" Israel expects to take over in Gaza, remains marooned in his Ramallah headquarters, assailed by Palestinians outraged by the Israeli action but powerless to do anything about it.That powerlessness, concedes a PA minister, merely helps Hamas.

We find ourselves technically free but powerless.

Mr. Linford, however, felt anything but powerless.

They were angry but powerless in their own countries.

The old emir watches from abroad, rich but powerless, after a nominal reconciliation with his son.

The weak central government was unwilling to cave in but powerless to stop them.

Only in Sparta, arrogant but powerless, was there no willingness to adjust.

Leila's father-in-law is sympathetic to Leila but powerless to soften his wife's stand.

Before the nation watched, riveted but powerless, as Los Angeles was looted and burned.

To say that middle-class mothers are generally shifting in the direction of the guiltless-but-powerless self-image is not to say that people have stopped worrying about how much power mothers have.

According to Salon David Sirota, by making Underwood a liberal rather than a conservative "'House of Cards' is avoiding the standard cartoonish portrayal of Washington as a place of Evil-And-Powerful Conservatives and Idealistic-But-Powerless Liberals.