Sentence examples for have been helpless from inspiring English sources

Again East would have been helpless.

This was the essential play, for the defense would have been helpless if West had won the first trick.

Aid recipients have been helpless in advising women about legal alternatives to unsafe abortion and barred from openly joining the movement for decriminalisation.

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.

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.

Britton would have been helpless, though, had a sliding Branislav Ivanovic managed to stretch an inch further to divert the ball in from two yards.

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.

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.

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.

When the svelte, stylish thirtysomething Denise Lambert sits down for lunch with her parents, Franzen notes that her less svelte mother, Enid, who all her life had been helpless not to observe the goings-on on other people's plates, had watched Denise take a three-bite portion of salmon, a small helping of salad, and a crust of bread.