Sentence examples for felt helpless when from inspiring English sources

Her son was close friends with Nate, and said he felt helpless when he learned that the affable senior had ended his life.

He failed, for example, to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay and felt helpless when 20 children and six adults were shot dead at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, four years ago.

Ming Mao felt helpless when all of her crops were washed away by flood waters, an increasingly common risk in her region.

Carlsen stated that this arrangement created a situation where the player felt helpless when initially presented with the deadly spider, but then assisted the player through an audible cue when the trap had dropped, enabling the player to discover the solution.

"On the sidelines, you feel helpless when you feel your team struggling".

She said that she feels helpless when she hears about her daughter's last moments.

I feel helpless when I tire and lose focus — focus has never been an issue for me.

The hospital scenes, in which they go up against a bureaucracy and feel helpless when confronted with jargon-spouting experts who maintain an Olympian composure, feel absolutely accurate.

"I feel helpless when I see reconstruction is yet to start in some places and think of the children who have suffered severely from the quakes.

No wonder New Yorkers feel helpless, when city officials ignore us in the face of pressure by a powerfully connected organization.

"Many people look at conflict and think, 'It's not my job to fix that problem,' or 'I feel helpless when faced with conflict,'" says Ury. "We think of conflicts as having two sides in opposition.