Sentence examples for in a powerless from inspiring English sources

Powerful in a powerless town, almost a blessing, almost the word of the Lord.

In a powerless and heavily flooded Staten Island neighborhood, Sara Zavala sleeps under two blankets and layers of clothing.

Mr. Barak took over the Labor Party, and when he was elected prime minister, he marginalized Mr. Peres in a powerless ministerial job manufactured especially for him: regional cooperation minister.

Once you're top dog, it is perfectly fine for the GQ man to tell a story equating himself with a middle-aged woman in a powerless position who was comic relief.

Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, a 57-year-old former air force fighter pilot, has been dubbed the "hero of Hudson" after calmly bringing his 155 passengers to safety in a powerless aircraft.

Erick Donasian, the company's head of service in Tanzania, grew up in a powerless house three miles from the office and joined the company in 2013; he said that, along with his enthusiasm for the company's goals, one attraction of working there is that it is far less formal than many Tanzanian businesses, where "you have to tuck your shirt in, which I hate the most".

Later he retired to his Florida estate, where he died in 1947, a powerless recluse.

And it's earned the South Korean diplomat withering criticism: He's been called among the worst secretaries general in U.N. history, a "powerless observer" and a "nowhere man"; Foreign Policy magazine even called for his resignation in 2010.

Although he rejoined the queen and prince in Paris in 1648, Hyde remained a powerless spectator of Charles I's last efforts to save his throne and his life.

The AUC had its roots in the paramilitary armies built up by drug lords in the 1980s, and says it took up arms in self-defence, in the place of a powerless state.

The line-stander is a two-foot-square space on a sidewalk, a cipher, a proxy, a powerless stand-in for a figure of great power.