Sentence examples similar to powerless control from inspiring English sources

I felt powerless, controlled by cigarettes, pathetic.

According to this view of world power, military force is perceived as hopelessly out of step or even powerless; the control of culture (and its production) is seen as far more important than the control of political and geographic borders.

Police are powerless to control the flow.

War becomes one more problem they feel powerless to control.

The referee is powerless to control what's going on.

He dismissed claims that Mr. Abbas and the Palestinian Authority were powerless to control extremists.

— His home run swing is so instinctual that Adrian Beltre is powerless to control it.

Maybe it depends on whether you like your monsters socially powerful or powerless, in control or anarchic.

He simply liked to embroil human characters in political (or religious) clashes that they were powerless to control.

Campaigners say that too often women are left feeling powerless, without control and in some cases traumatised.

Although the circumstances were very different, both leaders were powerless to control the events that thundered around them.