Sentence examples for make powerless from inspiring English sources

Can we make powerless people more visible, give them a voice?

These repressed instinctual impulses, however, are not always made powerless by this process.

However, we had seen that a powerful, arrogant, rich and confident elite can be made powerless by the actions of ordinary people".

Although his hopes for moderate reform collapsed when his chosen archbishop, Edmund Grindal, was made powerless following a quarrel with the Queen, Burghley could not afford to weaken the Puritan militants against aggressive Catholicism.

She is made powerless and frustrated by the opposition constructed during the course.

I feel powerless -- and therefore I make myself powerless.

But it does not make us powerless.

Smith's draft (titled Superman Lives) had Brainiac sending Doomsday to kill Superman, as well as blocking out the sun to make Superman powerless, as Superman is fueled by sunlight.

He also felt that "Brainiac's evil plot of launching a disk in space to block out the sun and make Superman powerless was reminiscent of an episode of The Simpsons, with Mr. Burns doing the Brainiac role".

The past has made us powerless.

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