Sentence examples for powerless from from inspiring English sources
"Even so, should that leave the police powerless from interrupting a plot to blow up a synagogue and to shoot and kill Jews in New York City?" he asked, adding, "Don't think so".
Soldiers of the Georgian army, who had been waiting for permission from the Russians to go back into Gori, but instead saw the front line move even closer, could only watch, powerless, from the roadside.
Power is what matters here: you'll be able to keep the powerless from invading your privacy, but you'll have no ability to prevent the powerful from doing it again and again.
I realized that, as a vehicle for affecting change in my life, my New Year's resolutions were powerless from the start.
Independent Lens The new episode "Powerless" from filmmakers Deepti Kakkar and Fahad Mustafa, documents a city in India with an unstable power supply where a maverick electrician tries to restore the "juice" to the impoverished who desperately need it.
But as they should be in any household, the men were powerless from stopping the women from partying eventually, bottles of wine were on the table for every family gathering.
From Cromwell ("I'll get the Duke of Norfolk to bite your b******* off"), from Anne ("When my son is born, they'll all be powerless") and from 'Holy Maid' Elizabeth Barton who has prophesied that Henry will not last a year on the throne should he marry Anne.
"We feel powerless because from here there is nothing we can do about it".
Bureaucrats froze: A coup? Or powerless rhetoric from a Putin puppet?
Michnik adds that Havel's epochal essay "The Power of the Powerless" arose from this decision.
Only those who hesitate to overturn laws approved by the people's elected representatives unless doing so is necessary to protect the political process itself or powerless minorities from unconstitutional actions should be approved.
