Sentence examples for has been helpless from inspiring English sources
Even Drew Brees has been helpless to do anything about it.
Without Denard Robinson, 22nd-ranked Michigan has been helpless against Nebraska's methodical attack.
Indeed, any time one receives an idea of how to solve a problem in life that one has been pondering but for which one has been helpless to find an answer, credit is appropriately attributed to the ostensibly infinite mind that governs our existence.
The Iraqi army has been helpless to stop the march of the Islamic State without U.S. advisors, withdrawn because of Obama's inability or unwillingness to reach a status of forces agreement with Baghdad.
This was the essential play, for the defense would have been helpless if West had won the first trick.
Bosh and Udonis Haslem have been helpless inside against the powerful Roy Hibbert, and Paul George has been every bit as skillful and effective on the perimeter as James.
The Nets' offense had disintegrated late Saturday night in a 102-89 loss to the Miami Heat, and Williams, their All-Star point guard, had been helpless to stop it.
Aid recipients have been helpless in advising women about legal alternatives to unsafe abortion and barred from openly joining the movement for decriminalisation.
If his background had been in soccer and he had seen Luis Suárez deliver a hand-ball assist that the officials missed, Epstein would have been helpless to right the wrong.
I wonder, upon hearing that reply, what thoughts went through the minds of many of those who either had been helpless subjects of "professional" prosecutors before his grand juries or were investigated by his many "professional" interrogators.
