Sentence examples for hardly powerless from inspiring English sources

Khan, wealthy and famous, is hardly powerless.

Gays and lesbians, the briefs contend, may once have been treated poorly but today are hardly powerless.

But sovereigns are hardly powerless to prevent this sort of situation, as we observed in Smith, 543 U. S., at 474.

The seals campaign showed that the 99 percent, even when feeling disenfranchised, are hardly powerless to repair the safety net — and even influence the actions of the 1 percent.

Yemen is much like the United States in the latter half of the 19th century, when the government faced a rebellious South and a Wild West, but was hardly powerless outside the East Coast.

Congress is hardly powerless to change regulations or prevent them from being carried out — even now the House calendar is loaded with bills that would undercut the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to carry out clean air laws.

I just feel totally powerless".

Some viewers may have found psychotic screw, Joan "the freak" Ferguson, a tad OTT, but the abuse of powerless, institutionalised women is hardly an unknown phenomenon.

In A Little Pond, the South Korean state is hardly present in the film after it transfers wartime control to the US and is powerless to stop the killing of its own people.

Whatever one might think of these efforts, they hardly make up for our support of the oppressive social conditions that keep the people poor and powerless.

Goalkeeper Robert Green, who hardly had to make a save to make all match, was beaten when he parried two goalbound efforts but was powerless to stop Eduardo from pouncing atclose range.