Sentence examples for is often powerless from inspiring English sources

But, even when hackers are identified, law enforcement is often powerless to confront them.

The family is often powerless to do anything, because mum or dad keeps the door closed".

The city's traffic managers are often powerless in clearing traffic for an ambulance.

The state courts were often powerless to act because the malapportionments were written into state constitutions.

We can set the conditions but are often powerless to implement key parts of the overall plan.

Despite the grandeur of the Angkorean temples that were built over the next four centuries, Jayavarman II's successors were often powerless or constrained by opposing forces.

The logic of political conflict works itself out in stark, brutal ways that ordinary people, however brave or decent they might be, are often powerless to oppose.

And local authorities, which still retain substantial statutory duties to the children who live in their areas, are often powerless to intervene.

You see, while our mothers and grandmothers were often powerless to change their circumstances, today, we as women have all the power we need to determine the outcome of this election".

Mr. Wuttke welcomed efforts by the central government to curb new capacity but said it was often powerless in the face of local governments that craved new factories for the tax revenue and jobs they could generate and that have done everything to keep existing plants from going under.

These front-line lab workers face the greatest risk of injury from lax safety practices and know lab conditions best yet they are often powerless to make their working lives safer.