Sentence examples for powerless administration from inspiring English sources

"The Islamic Emirates have never talked with Kabul's powerless administration," said a Taliban spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, in an e-mail statement.

Indigenous but virtually powerless local administrations were set up in each of the Baltic countries.

The situation in Iran cast the United States in an unaccustomed role — a superpower that was powerless — as the administration of President Jimmy Carter could not win the release of the 52 Americans taken captive in Tehran.

We feel powerless against a corrupt administration and a press that seems to focus on the shiniest object.

The mind-set is clear: since there was "no silver bullet," as Ms. Rice put it, this very hawkish administration was powerless to act at all.

With heightened security alerts at calculated intervals that render ordinary citizens powerless, and the Bush administration's suggestion that there might be another, deadlier terrorist attack, many people will vote for Mr. Bush out of sheer panic.

Many believe that the Obama administration is powerless against Israel and is unable to hinder the US strategic alliance with Israel for the sake of stopping settlement activity.

More recently, many of the same members of Congress who rejected giving a waiver to permit continued funding of UNESCO slammed that same body for adopting a resolution on Jerusalem that Israel strongly opposed — while ignoring the reason why the Obama Administration was powerless to influence the outcome.

GOOD IDEAS AREN'T ENOUGH The Greek government is proving powerless to transform an inefficient public administration that has served as a power base for the same political leaders now being asked to dismantle it.

Edward Leigh, the Conservative MP who chairs the committee of public accounts, said it was baffling that the DfT was left powerless as Metronet stumbled towards administration.

The responsibility for educating PIs about their legal obligations as bosses of course rests with the university's leadership and administration, not with powerless and dependent postdocs.