Sentence examples for politically powerless from inspiring English sources

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.

The Roosevelt Court thus limited judicial protection of individual rights to infringements upon certain of the guarantees (although not all of them) specifically enumerated in the Bill of Rights, as well as laws affecting the political process or targeting the politically powerless.

We also include measures for general trust and political efficacy, since those who do not trust people in general and feel politically powerless might be more inclined to think their MP overclaimed.

Palestinians living in the UNRWA-administered refugee camps felt isolated, politically powerless, disoriented, bitter, and resentful.

Undocumented immigrants may themselves be politically powerless, but they have powerful allies.

"Talk about a politically powerless group with no public defenders," Cullen said.

This sort of despair is beginning to spread into Israel, where many progressives −- politically marginalized, powerless and under growing pressure by the anti-liberal measures promoted in the Knesset -− are beginning to feel as if they are in exile in their own country.

There's a sense of being powerless politically, so we use that as an excuse for lack of interest and that's not acceptable.

Since we know we're powerless politically, and that we're fighting a very hard wall, we try to add spiritual power.

Long ago, a much more politically primitive and powerless Jewish community loudly applauded when both the famously progressive Louis D. Brandeis and the more conservative Felix Frankfurter joined the Supreme Court; philosophy mattered less than raw ethnic identity and pride.

We all feel powerless politically today, but empowering physically, can Gaga help me with my arthritic knees?