Sentence examples for powerless time from inspiring English sources

Ivan Krastev, a Bulgarian academic, has written that for ordinary voters the accession era felt like a powerless time when they could "change governments but not policies".Perhaps a better argument for defending enlargement is a more modest one: that EU membership has proved more useful than the pessimists think, despite its limits.

"In my most powerless time, I was able to be powerful for someone else".

Receiving a pass from Juninho with his back to goal, Edmundo shimmied past Mikael Silvestre and placed his shot beyond Bosnich, who had just made a brilliant save to push away a low shot by Felipe but was left powerless this time.

Victims may feel increasingly isolated and powerless over time.

To feel less powerless, our time is better spent in quiet contemplation when disaster or unspeakable violence strikes.

It's easy to feel powerless in times like these.

As such, "Powerless" was timed to coincide with the Heroes winter hiatus.

I felt very powerless at the time and I didn't have the support of anybody.

During his 31-year reign, Frederick I was virtually powerless, devoting his time to hunting and love affairs.

Watching Hester's "let them eat cake" moment on TV, I felt both outraged and at the same time powerless.

Even worse are those flashes of a loved one dying, being killed in front of your eyes, the pain, the horror, the fear, and you are powerless to stop time and instead must suffer through the consequences of your own worst fantasies.