Sentence examples for made them powerless from inspiring English sources

He destroyed the countries and made them powerless and he made the sea their frontier.

Women and girls everywhere are most often at risk because of violence, sexual coercion and discrimination that makes them powerless to negotiate safe sex, to reject early and forced marriage or partnership with older men, or to achieve economic independence.

Even people who had suffered significant economic loss in the flooding disaster did not want bilateral agencies or Islamist groups simply to assume that their poverty made them politically powerless, unable to exercise political choice or voice.

They wanted to help me, but I had put myself in a situation where they couldn't and that made them feel powerless.

Therefore they are reluctant to assume responsibility and this reluctance has made them more powerless.

The need for migration to earn some money for sustenance of their family, made them feel powerless.

The dreadful proxy war has muted the voices of the Syrian people and made them hopeless and powerless.

This has made them weaker and more powerless.

But they probably have more direct impact on the quality of many people's daily lives: one more petty annoyance to make them feel powerless, pawns in some hidden corporate marketing strategy.

It may give subs control over situations that would – in reality – make them feel powerless, or allow doms to cathartically express violent urges: in short, the sandbox gets it all out of our systems.

Mohamed Lotfy, co-founder of the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms, an independent rights group, said: "It has become more and more common to hear from detainees that they were sexually assaulted or harassed, and it seems that the tactic is being used to humiliate the detainee, and to make them feel powerless, and under the control of the police.