Sentence examples for its powerlessness from inspiring English sources

The PCLOB was statutorily forced on Bush by Congress, but he assured its powerlessness and later dismantled it.

But if the Tidal Basin's beach was a symbol of the District's segregation, it was also a symbol of its powerlessness.

The government was shocked at its powerlessness.

Socialism in America is a marginal movement, almost unique in its powerlessness among the Western democracies.

The huge new middle class is becoming increasingly frustrated with its powerlessness over issues such as education, health care, the environment and property rights.

Theirs is a party that is utterly shut out of power in Washington -- the Democrats of 1992 had big majorities in both the House and the Senate -- and that feels its powerlessness acutely.

I knew that the child in this caged hospital bed had been momentarily engulfed by a sharp understanding of his true situation, that he saw its overwhelming sadness, its irreversibility, his powerlessness.

By its failure to contest the proposition that "the world had changed", New Labour was constructed upon the tacit admission of its own powerlessness.

The town's preservationist attitude -- and its relative powerlessness against Hunterdon County officials with other needs in mind -- is embodied in the skirmishes with the county over the town's small stone arch and metal truss bridges.

My first thought was, "But they got it all wrong!" as I thought of the twee weasel words which are usually used to describe the city - "stylish" and "romantic", which also happen to be two of my least favourite words ever, standing as they both do for conformity's eroticisation of its own powerlessness.

We, perhaps, are the only segment of society that doesn't understand how far beyond us this whole machine is, that doesn't recognise its own powerlessness.