Sentence examples for increasingly helpless from inspiring English sources

Heavily medicated, she was struggling to get her bearings and increasingly helpless and afraid.

Mexico, the second-biggest exporter to the United States, seems increasingly helpless to find new supplies to offset the collapse of its largest oil field, Cantarell.

And the terrible questions: "Was he already getting close to his devastating dotage, when he would become increasingly helpless?" On one typically wretched night he talks to himself aloud, saying, "Kurt Wallander is lying in his bed, thinking of death".

SENIOR police officers are becoming convinced not only that organised crime is a growing problem, but also that both the law and the agencies that enforce it are increasingly helpless against the top criminals.

While Court takes to drink and Thora becomes increasingly helpless, their daughter Harper follows the various adult reactions while her brother Tin observes from a burrow under the house.

The summer brought increasingly helpless scenes as the island filled with refugees, and the local government, already straining under the pressure of Greece's debt crisis, was unable to help them.

What follows is a series of increasingly painful, helpless, humiliating manoeuvres to win her back, to hold on to her or her image in any way, to see her just now and then, to imagine her without him, and then to try to learn to exist with her absence.

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

With tax receipts from retail sales and property values plummeting as unemployment rises along with fuel costs, city officials in Duluth and across the country say they are feeling increasingly squeezed and helpless as the national economic crisis eats away at the core sources of municipal revenue.

A health and wellness author and speaker, I travel the country and meet thousands of people in public events every month and can say without hesitation: Americans feel increasingly stressed and helpless.

Farrukh Iqbal Khan, chair of the Adaptation Fund, tells Kate Sheppard of Mother Jones that as more and more countries face devastating impacts worsened by climate change, as Pakistan did with its recent floods, they are increasingly finding themselves helpless to do anything about it.