Sentence examples for helpless population from inspiring English sources

Obama was skeptical about intervening to stop Muammar Qaddafi's forces as they marched on a helpless population in Benghazi, Libya.

Because democracy won the second world war – at least in the west – nazism has been mythified ever since as democracy's "other", a totalitarian system that rigidly controlled a helpless population.

Here was the texture of a hidden war of continual harassment against a largely helpless population.

While targeted sanctions avoid punishing a largely helpless population in the hopes of influencing a regime which cares little about its people, they have yet to actually bring any government to heel.

"It was a brutal assault on a helpless, imprisoned population.

Yet the objective is clear: to eradicate the repressive regime in the north — made up of a loose triumvirate of radical Islamist groups, including Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, the Qaeda regional affiliate — that for the last six months has imposed a nightmare of public whippings, beatings, amputations and stonings on a helpless local population.

What especially disturbed Brown and others, though, was how helpless the civilian population had been in the face of the Union military onslaught.

As I said, he left the Hindu population helpless in the face of the Muslim League.

There is nothing healthy or holy about a structure that renders half the population helpless or dependent.

Since day 3 post-immunization was the last day that the CD8+ T cell response was indistinguishable between control and CD4-depleted mice, it is possible that lack of CD25 expression may be related to the early contraction of the helpless T cell population.

As most Gazans are stateless, virtually all of the population was helpless in the face of this ruthless policy.