Sentence examples for powerless person from inspiring English sources
Yet the most original feature is its ingenious story of a seemingly powerless person wreaking a terrible revenge on an oppressor.
If someone has an unneeded generator and people nearby are living without power through no fault of their own, it's virtually impossible to justify not letting a powerless person use it temporarily.
Va Sophal, 40, is a former Khmer Rouge foot soldier and a former refugee who describes himself, with a surprisingly bold grin, as "a powerless person, the poorest farmer you can find".
The government has pandered to populist opinion ever since the Leveson inquiry, proposing greater restraints on the media, yet it sees no problem when government agents themselves sneak around smearing someone – even when it concerns a powerless person held incommunicado for more than a decade, like Aamer.
Maybe, in the end, the system is the powerless person's best bet.
The suicidal act can be seen as a powerless person's weapon to influence the outside world in a way in which the recipients are deprived of the ability to speak back, which is a fundamental point.
It will also neutralize the influence of preachers of hate and violence who recruit economically powerless persons to enlist as suicide terrorists to use whatever weapons they can acquire to kill innocent citizens.
Injustice led to the execution or imprisonment of untold powerless, innocent persons.
On Broadway in still powerless SoHo, a person walking with a cup of coffee could be stopped once per block by some bleary-eyed soul asking where he had found it.
If he read Edward Streeter's classic and still irreplaceable novel "Father of the Bride," he would know that at any contemporary wedding, the host is the most powerless and invisible person present.
NEW YORK CITY —The first character we meet in Fahad Mustafa and Deepti Kakkar's film, "Powerless," is not a person at all – it's a menacing tangle of wires, looming over the gritty northern Indian city of Kanpur.
