Sentence examples for hardly helpless from inspiring English sources

For all that, Next is hardly helpless to respond.

We were just helpless".

Mr. Hu, of course, is hardly a helpless bystander to many of the decisions that rankle the United States.

In the absence of a U.S military role, states like Japan, Australia, South Korea, Taiwan, India, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Vietnam--especially if they act collectively--would hardly be helpless to defend themselves and their vital interests against any Chinese expansionism.

The Red Terror led to a White Terror; Robespierre's head had hardly fallen before the Gilded Youth were attacking the now helpless Jacobins.

But these changes have hardly left the United States in the role of some sort of pitiful helpless giant unable to defend itself or its interests around the world.

It's hardly surprising that Bon Iver has managed to inject a song saturated in helpless desperation with even more sadness, his creaking falsetto supported by lonesome piano chords.

Less helpless.

Feeling helpless.

Townspeople helpless.

She was helpless; he was helpless.