Sentence examples for legally powerless from inspiring English sources
But Mayor Garant said the village attorney has advised village trustees that they even if they wanted to, they are legally powerless to overrule the planning board.
William Friedman, a lawyer who represents a number of small landlords, said that under the current procedures, the landlords are occasionally held liable for the litter that is created even though they are legally powerless to dispose of it.
The emperor now emerged as a kind of closet pacifist, a mainly symbolic head of state, a constitutional monarch who was legally powerless to resist the military and may even have been coerced by them.
The lawmakers, as well as patient advocates and others, say the Supreme Court's medical device decision has left patients legally powerless against what they criticize as spotty oversight of products by the F.D.A. "Consumers face the worse of all possible worlds," said David C. Vladeck, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center and a medical industry watchdog.
He's been asked to do more, but is relatively powerless, legally.
The source told the website that the actress's parents are powerless to do anything because she is 27 years old, and legally there is very little they can do do help their daughter, since she refuses to get help.
However, the process stimulated rapid development in the opposite direction, as it provided the formerly powerless oppositional voices within the communist bloc with a politically and morally though not legally binding international instrument.
Britain looked on, powerless.
Roark, feeling powerless, retired.
