Sentence examples for helpless citizens from inspiring English sources
"I am very, very sad, and I feel sorry for the helpless citizens," Mubarak supposedly said.
The often breathless accounts have suggested that someone far away lobbed the Big One on us, the helpless citizens of the brave new online world.
But at every turn, we must engage with institutional decision-makers, not as helpless citizens approaching all-powerful leaders, but as the powerful engaging the powerful.
"1984" seemed, in contrast, too brutal, too atavistic, too limited in its imagination of the relation between authoritarian state and helpless citizens.
In Toledo last week, he went after DaimlerChrysler and city officials for striking a deal that, as he darkly saw it, resulted in the use of hard-earned tax dollars to roust scores of helpless citizens from their humble homes so that room could be made to build a Jeep plant.
In our digitally connected world, our food supply, hospitals, ATM machines and banks, and transportation systems are vulnerable to cyber attacks and could be used as weapons against helpless citizens who would become collateral damage in a cyberwarfare escalation.
Ukraine's acting president, Oleksandr Turchynov, said this week that the police were "helpless" to protect citizens and in some cases were actively colluding with pro-Russian insurgents.
A necessary first step in implementing the Cloward-Piven Strategy is to render citizens helpless in the face of urban violence.
These dual pressures less time, more data leave ordinary citizens feeling helpless, reliant upon a class of policy experts.
Unfortunately in 132 poor nations where there are no minimum wage laws or they are set below $1 dollar per hour, their citizens are helpless to increase their wages unilaterally!
Three decades after Live Aid, it is clear that celebrity efforts to "save Africa" have often done more to reinforce negative media stereotypes about the "dark continent" and to portray its one billion citizens as helpless victims in a new "white man's burden".
