Sentence examples for helpless to affect from inspiring English sources

When it was going wrong Pellegrini could be helpless to affect events.

Beirut might be a city where residents often feel helpless to affect change after years of corruption and a lack of effective governance, yet people now feel invested in Halwani's paintings, and in the messages they carry.

Strength implies having power and being able to affect one's own life, while weakness implies being powerless and helpless.

She was the teen lying in a bed helpless to a disease that, from most accounts that I read about, affected people my age.

And Gore seemed helpless to respond.

Church leaders, meanwhile, declared themselves helpless to force any resolution.

Even Drew Brees has been helpless to do anything about it.

Is the administration helpless to do anything about that?

Sampras looked helpless to stop Martin.

We are not helpless to it.

Brezhnev is helpless to control them.