And I stared the woman down, silently sympathizing with my once-powerless, law-abiding mom and dad.
And in prison, as he watches his skinny and battered son Ziggy surrounded and almost effaced by the massive, intimidating prisoners around him, Frank instinctively stands up, needing to help but for once completely powerless.
To the most powerful office on earth, he would bring the compassion that comes from having once been powerless... the wisdom that comes even to the captives, by the grace of God... the special confidence of those who have seen evil, and seen how evil is overcome.
The world cross-country champion tried to shake off Russia's Yelena Zadorhnaya but once again was powerless as her rival kicked for home.
And except for one woman, clearly an "intellectual" who could trade sexual obscenities with them, the powerless once again had no dramatic force.
The street, once all but powerless, has become a real force, exposed to more sources of information that repressive governments do not control, harder to rein in once inflamed, and more susceptible to radical Islam.
The leadership at once disowned the (powerless) Reichstag's peace resolution of April 1917.In sum, the Kaiser's Germany, following a course at least partly set by Bismarck's earlier brutal wars of conquest, destroyed Europe's chance of 100 years of peaceful development.
2. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood In a world in which the few still-fertile women are kept as slaves by wealthy families, their only function to breed, at once the most powerless and most valuable members of society, motherhood becomes acutely political.
Being raised by parents who were once small, vulnerable, powerless and very needy.
It has overthrown entire governments, empowered those who once thought themselves powerless and done it all without resorting to violence.
