Sentence examples for mostly powerless to from inspiring English sources

Maria Morris Hambourg, the curator of photography at the Metropolitan Museum, wrote in a foreword to the 1996 book, "Treadwell," "Modica's art is about important and solemn events -- those internal, molding moments we are mostly powerless to hold or articulate".

Several police officials are part of a group that has been stealing thousands of gallons of gasoline a month, a major reason some districts receive less than half their allotments, said American officers, who are mostly powerless to do anything but report corruption to their superiors.

City Hall lawyers signed off on a 2006 legal settlement allowing more than 800 billboards to be turned into digital signs, and separately has been mostly powerless to slow the growth of supergraphics, those gigantic wraparound advertisements that are capable of mummifying entire pieces of architecture.

Your character is largely powerless to what plays out around him or her, remaining mostly silent.

State officials are scrambling to figure out what to do, but are mostly powerless unless Congress does something.

Sometimes a pretty white dress, even one laden with symbols, can be allowed to be pretty, and a mostly powerless and symbolic Queen leaving flowers on a monument to her ancestors' enemies can make for a moving spectacle.

A mostly powerless figurehead, President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, has been allowed to stand in for all of Iran.

The irony is that the so-called insurgents, even if they were to be elected, would ostracize themselves and be mostly powerless, unless they caved and joined the incumbent ranks.

Boycott threats from conservatives have proved mostly powerless -- as when the sales of the Clorox Company a decade ago were unaffected by a boycott called by the family association for sponsoring shows with content it viewed as objectionable.

Nearly everyone I know is grieving, feeling outraged and mostly powerless.

Half the population is in denial that this is happening and the other half feels mostly powerless despair.