Sentence examples for had been powerless from inspiring English sources

If they had been powerless in prison, here was a situation where they thought they had the power.

If the emperor had been powerless to halt the warmongers in the army, how could ordinary Japanese have done so?

Much like his team: Almería had been powerless, lacking the competitiveness and edge Lillo had so often been accused of lacking.

However, he claimed that he had been powerless to stymie the will of the leader he served, and that none of the regime's blood on his hands.

But the parliamentary forces, which had been powerless before in the events leading to Mussolini's seizure of power in 1922, proved ineffective in keeping public opinion aroused and failed to take decisive action against Mussolini.

The I.A.T., it seemed, was picking up a heightened signal of suicidal tendencies that the most commonly used method for assessing risk — a clinical interview — had been powerless to detect.

Priebus has been powerless.

And I have been powerless to stop it.

The Illinois court would have been powerless, though, had the attack occurred seconds before.

Ever since I did purchase it, I have been powerless to stop playing it.

Meanwhile, town planning has been powerless before the rise of the new retail baronial class.