During the trial Inglis wept as she described her despair at the "horror, pain and tragedy" of her son's helpless condition.
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.
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.
Measuring at all the required positions is impractical and analytical modelling methods are helpless for nonideal boundary conditions.
Much of the red tape he came up against surrounded the American Medicare system, which he uses to show how a regime of rules can promote a condition of helpless stupidity in those who deliver the services and those who use them.
When we continually step in and fix and repair everything, we condition our children to be helpless, which can in turn lean to depression.
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.
