Sentence examples for it was helpless from inspiring English sources

As an academic, he mocked the Bank of Japan for its claim in the 1990s that it was helpless in the face of persistent economic weakness.

It was helpless.

It was helpless with Burke there.

It was helpless without "Captain America," David Wright.

The withdrawal of the observer mission represented what some diplomatic experts called an unusual acknowledgment by the United Nations that it was helpless to resolve a bitter sectarian-tinged conflict in which an estimated 18,000 people have been killed and none of the antagonists are interested in negotiating.

Why did you leave Tehran on Thursday night?" This was flat-out false, and if they believed it I was helpless to explain it.

It is helpless against the waves generated by tourists' motorboats.

But no, my self isn't my soul, and it's not soulful, it's helpless and angry – Does this mean, then, that I never expected to die?

The "cheap-energy mind," as Wendell Berry called it, is the mind that asks, "Why bother?" because it is helpless to imagine — much less attempt — a different sort of life, one less divided, less reliant.

So it's helpless for the voltage drop.

Unless the soul is moved by grace, it is helpless to do good or avoid sin.