So they would have appreciated the irony that, since the ongoing financial crisis began, their analyses of unstable, destructive capitalism has been spectacularly confirmed at the same time that the movement they ostensibly inspired (and for a time, involuntarily gave their names to) lies powerless and moribund.
It may be the biggest issue of our generation but we feel individually powerless or that solutions lie somewhere in the future.
I didn't want to go shopping, to cook, to do whatever, basically—I just lay there powerless with zero will to move a single muscle in my body.
Stoneleigh is a small college town where the powerful few control the powerless few, using laws and lies to preserve that control.
Battling stormy seas and time, Russian seamen failed twice to hook up a rescue capsule to the nuclear-powered submarine lying broken and powerless on the floor of the Barents Sea with 116 men aboard, officials said early today.
Russian seamen failed twice to hook up a rescue vehicle to the nuclear-powered submarine Kursk, lying broken and powerless with 116 men aboard about 400 feet below the surface of the Barents Sea.
Individuals, Chomsky suggests, are fed the lie that they are powerless and alone.
Judge John Samuels, chairman of the Criminal Justice Alliance, adds: "Sentencers, whether full-time judges or lay magistrates, frequently feel powerless to address the problems faced by those appearing in their courts with multiple social, health and addiction problems.
Which tells you pretty much all you need to know about where the balance of power lies in the global game of (essentially unregulated) U.S. tech platforms giants vs (essentially powerless) foreign political jurisdictions.
So that, as Lyndon Johnson's car made its slow way down the canyon, what lay ahead of him in that motorcade could, in a way, have been seen by someone observing his life as a foretaste of what might lie ahead if he remained Vice-President: five years of trailing behind another man, humiliated, almost ignored, and powerless.
