Sentence examples for powerless of from inspiring English sources

Omar is not powerless, of course; she is a member of Congress.

Consumers are not entirely powerless, of course, and have already started to react to higher energy bills.

As Lloyd puts it: "It's profoundly bleak on so many levels – the failure of idealism, the powerless of one's domestic world to impact on the public world".

It is in this context that Howard and his ministers have steeled their hearts against the supposed invasion by the powerless of the Tampa.

Second, the mentally ill are among the most powerless of all populations, lacking the political influence to demand change and, in the case of adult home residents, having few advocates to take up their cause.

And yet, apart from the town clerk, none of the 14 people present was paid; Thetford has the status of a parish council, the lowest and most powerless of Norfolk's three tiers of local government.

Governments seem powerless, out of sync with market reactions to their short-term efforts to contain the crisis.

I was powerless, out of control, and my life was very small.

In short, the global protests are not an expression of what Vaclav Havel once called "the power of the powerless" but of the frustration of the empowered.

It also brings the voices of the powerless and of the victims into places where they might not be invited to go.

This is just a reissue of the powerless message of theological liberalism..