Sentence examples for position of helplessness from inspiring English sources

If you're being told what to do, you fall into a position of helplessness or disempowerment, which makes it hard to develop this head of steam, this effortful strength and self-control and willpower.

"We've been working for the last 25 years to empower victims to make their own decisions in their own best interests". The law, to the contrary, keeps victims in a position of helplessness, Alpert said.

"When you're driving down the road thinking of a chick [girl] and you hit a dog, that's clutter". The thought Texas could maneuver itself into a position of helplessness makes the veins in Saban's head stand up like the soufflés Julia Child used to cook up.

Sadly, the Democrats assumed their usual position of learned helplessness in the face of a sustained assault on the president by the torture wing of the Republican party.

Bishop wrote from a position of uneasy helplessness, a deep-seated fastidiousness and wonder at even the smallest object, and Gunn enjoyed having power and control over metre and rhythm and line.

So I came out -- a decision made not from a position of empowerment, but one of helplessness.

In our analysis, the diminished masculine position was particularly characterized by feelings of helplessness, hopelessness, and men's interpretation of their lives as compromised or constrained by having acquired HIV.

Problems have to be faced, but from a position of strength, not despair and helplessness.

Not the sense of helplessness.

"It's the feeling of helplessness.

The sensation, in short, of helplessness.