Sentence examples for helplessness against from inspiring English sources

One familiar scene for the Nets on Saturday night was their apparent helplessness against a superstar.

There is satisfaction in clearing away the limb, the hard wood's helplessness against the chainsaw teeth, the albino purity of the sawdust on my shoes.

Erotic dance has become a lightning rod for cultural wars and a scapegoat for a sense of helplessness against change in American society.

Those in power wanted to send a message to the prison population -- a message of brutality, emphasizing the prisoners' helplessness against the might of the state -- and that is exactly what they did.

For most of the first two-and-a-quarter hours of their French Open semi-final here on Friday, Andy Murray was lost in a miasma of helplessness against Novak Djokovic, who looked every inch the undisputed best player in the world that his deeds and form have suggested for at least a year.

By the end of the year, illegal copies of the Batman movie had been downloaded more than seven million times around the world, according to the media measurement firm BigChampagne, turning it into a visible symbol of Hollywood's helplessness against the growing problem of online video piracy.

This effect could serve as a protective factor against helplessness and maybe post-traumatic stress.

Against helplessness and passive resignation, Guo Xiang calls for a constructive celebration of individuality and the plenitude of the Daoist world.

Paul Krugman's May 30 column, "Against Learned Helplessness," is a reminder why the U.S. Chamber of Commerce created the Campaign for Free Enterprise: to emphasize that innovation and entrepreneurship will drive our effort to create 20 million new American jobs over the next decade.

But the power of boom reaches beyond the physical and into the psychological, helping many people here along the Louisiana shore to brace against waves of helplessness and doubt.

The secular elites among the Palestinians and other Arabs, as well as the political moderates and the middle classes, have too often allowed anger, fear and a sense of helplessness to mute their protest against the horrific suicide bombings that have killed innocent civilians in the past year, even if most believed that such acts are profoundly wrong.