Sentence examples for helpless attitudes from inspiring English sources

Concerning cancer treatment, patients with helpless attitudes might receive less healthcare than they require to experience maximum survival and this aspect might be influenced by major holidays due to, for example, staff shortage.

The parents assumed a helpless and hopeless attitude, being overwhelmed by the task of bringing up the child and being acutely aware of their lack of resources.

Norma Drummond, the county's deputy planning commissioner, said the county was largely helpless in changing the attitudes of town officials.

(He shocked many of his friends by endorsing Sarkozy in the 2007 election — an endorsement that he did not exactly withdraw but did inflect after Sarkozy's less than welcoming attitude toward helpless people like the Roma became plain).

I had to change my attitude by not seeing myself as helpless just because I need some help; that made a world of difference.

The attitude seems to be that government is helpless to correct the skyrocketing price of fuel oil.

She confronts a casually indifferent, intermittently compassionate world with an attitude that seems at once independent and helpless.

Alternately timid and aggressive, solemn, hormonal, posturing, helpless, Houellebecq tosses stones through the windows of European polite speech and attitudes, then runs away.

She also found that the Twilight series presents a troubling view of gender roles in which females are helpless and require male protection and that there are many parallels between the attitudes of women in battering relationships.

It's the boys vs. the girls from the get-go, and the prevailing attitude is that men are sugar daddies and women are helpless.

Rather than regarding them as inevitable and natural, seek ways to change them into helpful attitudes, ones that will support you rather than cause you to feel powerless and helpless.