Sentence examples for powerless before from inspiring English sources

The Mableton factory did have a union, but it proved powerless before and especially after the plant was closed last fall.

The vale of tears is powerless before you.

Meanwhile, town planning has been powerless before the rise of the new retail baronial class.

But the rightwing press holds them in thrall, perhaps because they feel powerless before its lash.

Islamic law, it seems, was powerless before the charms of the dolphins.

So, in the Age of Trump, many people who have not felt powerless before feel powerless now.

But during the new war launched by Sharon against our people, the generation of 1982 that I was part of were more scattered, further flung to the four corners of the world, farther away from being able to do anything to help, even more powerless than before.

Iceland keeper Hannes Halldorsson kept out a swerving Srna free kick midway through the first half, but was powerless just before the half-hour mark when Mandzukic showed a predator's instinct to turn the ball in from close range after a deflected Ivan Rakitic cross from the left.

How awful it must feel to be powerless even before God! How tragic it is that God has been used by a weapon of oppression!

The problem is that it likely doesn't stop at one piece, and once you've finished swallowing that food your remorse can kicks in, and you feel more powerless than before.

But as freedom without some risk is impossible, it is obvious that people cannot expect politicians to put protecting them from every conceivable danger (something they are anyway powerless to do) before all other duties to society.