Sentence examples for powerless for from inspiring English sources

"Security officers in the ministry compound were completely powerless, for whatever reason," he said.

Politicians and union leaders have kept parents in the dark and powerless for years.

Ms. Giangeruso, who notes that last year, after the "Snowtober storm" on Halloween, her house was powerless for six days.

"Feeling powerless, for me, is a very dangerous thing that we've seen in the riots," says Symeon Brown at the London Policy Conference.

Too many people complain to me that social services are too powerful, and families accused of abuse are too powerless, for every complaint to be without merit.

"If a project like this is going to work, the local people must be responsible for it, especially in a place like Anfield, where they have felt powerless for so long," said Laurie Peake, program director of the Liverpool Biennial.

But where earlier pop idols raged against the powerful, Eminem reserves his most brutal images of degradation and violence for the powerless -- for members of groups that have traditionally been among the most persecuted in society.

In explaining his opposition to the Alito nomination, Mr. Obama said that Judge Alito's record showed "extraordinarily consistent support for the powerful against the powerless" and "for an overreaching federal government against individual rights and liberties".

Thus, the term " social powerlessness" was used in the following chief complaint analysis, since patients most often used the Danish terms for "powerless" or "powerlessness" to designate feelings of lack of control in relation to the dentist or staff.

Many had contributed food from their powerless freezers for what has become a twilight ritual.

"Sukkwan Island" is about the love of a powerless boy for a weak father.