Sentence examples for helpless to control from inspiring English sources

Brezhnev is helpless to control them.

Latinus is portrayed as a good man who is helpless to control the passions of his wife, Queen Amata, and Turnus, the rejected suitor for his daughter.

Not long ago, I started an experiment in self-binding: intentionally creating an obstacle to behavior I was helpless to control, much the way Ulysses lashed himself to his ship's mast to avoid succumbing to the Sirens' song.

With the global economy presenting challenges that our political leaders seem helpless to control, having a head of state who rises above it all provides a national figurehead untainted by the divisions which inevitably follow elections.

This doubled response in the part of the brain that prompts muscles to react in kind suggested that people were essentially helpless to control the impulse to smile or laugh when they heard pleasant sounds.

When Agatha is taken from her tank, and guided stumbling onto the Washington streets, her powers of prophecy, which she is helpless to control, stream like curses from the cave of her mouth.

A powerful dynamic ensues, as we increasingly feel helpless, striving to control the uncontrollable.

"I was in a helpless position... trying to control my dog," Weimerskirch said, crediting Sandy and Perez for saving his life.

Unlike Democrats, Huckabee says, Republicans want women to be "something other than victims of their gender," who are "helpless without Uncle Sugar" to "control their libido or their reproductive system".

On the cusp of a likely Tea Party-led government shutdown at midnight Monday, you appear as feeble as the helpless substitute teacher unable to control the rowdy, disruptive kids in the back off the class.

Instead of feeling helpless about not being able to control of what's happening in our homes, we can finally take charge.