Sentence examples for greater powerlessness from inspiring English sources

Each person we spoke to possessed only the power to refer us to another person of equal or greater powerlessness until we found ourselves facing a manager named Mike, who looked fifteen, his blond hair long and angular on top, the sides of his head freshly shaved.

This is in contrast to a study of women prisoners which found that women with longer sentences remaining experienced greater levels of powerlessness compared with women who had shorter time left to their sentences (Larson & Nelson, 1984).

More severe sexual abuse, particularly sexual abuse involving force or penetration, may lead to greater feelings of powerlessness.

He wrote, "There is a great sense of powerlessness.

You're powerless, and powerlessness itself becomes the enemy.

There was greater emphasis on the patients' powerlessness instead of the assumed attention-seeking and manipulative intentions.

The great waves of national discontent have been moving in Reagan's direction: discontent with inflation and with "big government" with our powerlessness in certain international situations, and with our lack of military superiority over the Soviet Union.

Trust and powerlessness become big issues.

But what's more, we occupied to remedy a feeling of profound political alienation and powerlessness: overcoming this was our greatest achievement.

By admitting such powerlessness, one opens up to a greater power beyond one's own capability – whatever one's nomenclature.

My father raised me to believe there is a magic in this country that doesn't exist anywhere else in the world that gives the powerlessness opportunity and helps underdogs defy great odds.