Sentence examples for is rendered powerless from inspiring English sources

Kristopher Medina, who portrays the blackmailer Nils Krogstad, toys menacingly with the tiny dolls of Nora's children each time he enters her home, a prelude to his attempts at manipulating Nora, who looks big enough to flatten him, but is rendered powerless by the pygmies who surround her.

A skeptical Rumpelstiltskin agrees, but as he signs the contract, he is rendered powerless due to a special red quill pen, that was created by The Blue Fairy.

With Cantor tethered to the Speaker at every appearance, shadowing his every move, involved in all strategic discussions, and poised to catapult into the Speakership at the faintest hint of a misstep, Boehner is rendered powerless and paralyzed, incapable of action at a time when his country needs his participation to avoid stumbling into a fiscal abyss.

Any immediate distractions were rendered powerless.

"He's just been rendered powerless.

Now, when confronted with a true threat, we have been rendered powerless.

Instead, Mark McGwire got into the game but was rendered powerless, as though someone had ripped off Superman's cape.

Because through representing pressure – in all of its different forms- as a risk to health – young people are rendered powerless and incapable of exercising agency.

The torture he suffered has left him withdrawn and ashamed, because he was rendered powerless and at the mercy of his tormentors.

Weston Hurt was a strong Emperor and Amy Wallace-Styles brought a deep mezzo-soprano timbre and thoughtful phrasing to Death, who was rendered powerless by the Nightingale's song.

This left Dave and me with a troubling question: what can we do when we are rendered powerless by normal political processes?