Sentence examples for from powerlessness from inspiring English sources

Look at how many recent mainstream films are fantasy escapes from powerlessness.

Some people have complained that Washington, at fifty-nine, is too old to play the thirty-five-year-old Walter, but I don't agree: actors know from powerlessness.

Just Ordinary People Andrew Courtney is a political advocate who works, he says, at "the thresholds of transition from powerlessness to the dignity of sovereignty".

In the immediate post-Holocaust era, the Zionist view - expounded most cogently by Professor Yehuda Bauer in his little volume, The Jewish Emergence from Powerlessness - held more or less complete sway.

Rather than springing from power, racism is much more likely to arise from powerlessness, where the bottom dwellers in a power structure have no way to ameliorate their situation and turn to find their own scapegoats to repress.

Right in the skeletal teeth of our historical sisters who were forced to sell their bodies from powerlessness, she demonstrates that even a powerful woman has not much else to sell.

From that powerlessness grew a desire to become a doctor.

While a U.S. president possesses near-unimaginable power, the men whom we mourned suffered from unimaginable powerlessness.

The movement from the powerlessness of Step One to the power of Steps Two and Three is asking us to see how certain aspects of our thinking and actions were self-defeating.

This stems from a sense of powerlessness from having little to no options in a situation.[16].[16]

Insufficient milk syndrome stems from poverty, sexism, and powerlessness, not from poor maternal nutritional status [ 28].