Sentence examples for helpless condition from inspiring English sources

During the trial Inglis wept as she described her despair at the "horror, pain and tragedy" of her son's helpless condition.

Their supposed helpless condition is thus made the excuse for imposing upon them burdens that could not be imposed upon other classes without depriving them of rights that inhere in personal freedom.

They further claimed that she caused him "to enter the swimming pool at their residence after his ingestion of controlled substances and in his stuporous and helpless condition he was asphyxiated and died".

By 1790, on the political front, the Commonwealth had deteriorated into such a helpless condition that it was successfully forced into an unnatural and ultimately deadly alliance with its enemy, Prussia.

In the present study, trauma-related dissociation is understood as a biological response to an overwhelming stressor, in which the survivor finds themselves in a completely helpless condition.

"In our helpless condition, our local ward member gave us these packets of white powder," Seeta said of the rehydration salts she was given to treat her child's diarrhoeal dehydration.

In recent years, chronic exposure to stressful life events has become an established and important risk factor for the development and maintenance of many psychological or helpless conditions in humans including depression and anxiety [ 2].

Two years later his wife, Rose, asked doctors to remove the feeding tubes that kept him alive, saying he had told her not long before the crash that he would never want to live in so helpless a condition.

See Massey, 348 U. S., at 108 ("No trial can be fair that leaves the defense to a man who is insane, unaided by counsel, and who by reason of his mental condition stands helpless and alone before the court").

Measuring at all the required positions is impractical and analytical modelling methods are helpless for nonideal boundary conditions.

In extreme cases, a loss of control can lead to a condition known as learned helplessness, in which a person becomes helpless to influence his own environment.