Sentence examples for largely helpless from inspiring English sources

Norma Drummond, the county's deputy planning commissioner, said the county was largely helpless in changing the attitudes of town officials.

The rebels and the civilians in Aleppo have endured, even though they are largely helpless against aerial assault.

At present, they are largely helpless observers of the bargaining between judge and prosecutor on the length of their client's sentence.

As an added bonus for the curious, the biology is absolutely fascinating: while normally free-living, the bacteria that cause chronic UTI (such as E. coli) have evolved ways to physically invade the cells lining the bladder, taking up residence inside those cells and entering a sort of dormancy where antibiotics and the immune system are largely helpless.

He watched, largely helpless, as the IMF and US treasury, in a kind of institutional and intellectual lockstep, imposed needless suffering on millions of ordinary people in East Asia and Russia through free-market "shock" programmes, forcing massive economic adjustment, centring on making countries keep their financial systems as open as possible to inflows and outflows of private capital.

Here was the texture of a hidden war of continual harassment against a largely helpless population.

Consequently, the problems with the potential vulnerabilities of children with disabilities during disasters are poorly understood the children are largely portrayed as "helpless" in the face of disaster (Hahn 1985; Smith et al. 2012; Aron and Loprest 2012).

There is a helpless and largely undeserved glamor in the phrase "moving to Italy" that makes your friends—and especially your moms cluck with envy.

These were the impotent stand-ins for Tony Romo in as unsightly a Giants-Cowboys game as it gets, won by the home side in bruising, cruising fashion, largely because Dallas was utterly helpless on offense.

Early human beings existed largely at the mercy of nature – helpless against natural disasters; constantly struggling to forage or capture enough food so as not to go hungry.

Last season, as winter approached, the players seemed to feel helpless watching a promising start collapse, largely under the weight of season-ending injuries.