Sentence examples for powerless at from inspiring English sources

But she wasn't poor and she wasn't powerless at all, or, at least, her father isn't.

I felt very powerless at the time and I didn't have the support of anybody.

Yet weather reports seemed like terminal diagnoses and left us feeling powerless, at the mercy of something huge and unforgiving.

As the team put it, using the megaphone made people feel "both powerful and powerless at the same time".

Throughout the ground zero design process, many New Yorkers have felt "powerful and powerless at the same time".

Yet the experts have acknowledged that the government in Baghdad is almost certainly powerless at the moment in terms of holding the fighters accountable.

The violence made Mr. Arafat look at best powerless and at worst complicit just as the Bush administration had for the first time put its prestige on the line in the pursuit of peace in the Middle East.

There is no way a person can know themselves as the force of divine love they are and at the same time see themselves as defective, broke, unlovable, worthless, powerless or at the mercy of the world at large.

It may be too much to ask that the powerful have less privacy than the powerless, but at the very least, governments must be at least as subject as their citizens to transparency and surveillance.

After months and years of looking at false alarms, Rosetta flew over Philae's powerless shell at an altitude of 2.7km.

The torture he suffered has left him withdrawn and ashamed, because he was rendered powerless and at the mercy of his tormentors.