Sentence examples for powerless to act from inspiring English sources

Too many senior Tories think they are powerless to act – they wrap their powerlessness up in economic and political libertarianism, and pray to the gods of the free market.

"Too many senior Tories think they are powerless to act.

The doctors told Mr. Shehab they were powerless to act.

Democratic members properly disputed this but were powerless to act without the requisite votes.

He echoed the frustrations of the intelligentsia and of ordinary persons who felt powerless to act.

Under the separation of powers doctrine, they argue, courts are powerless to act.

But with the Iraqi army in disarray it is powerless to act.

"The citizens, alternating between disgust, apathy, and fear, know that their way of life is unraveling before their eyes and see that their leaders ar eeither powerless or disinclined to act". During President Obama's first term, Webb provided reliable votes for the Democratic agenda, breaking only when his vote was not necessary for passage (or would not have saved a doomed bill).

I felt powerless to do anything".

"I just saw how powerless the states were to act," Ruckelshaus recalled.

Eric Hobsbawm wrote in The Black Dwarf: "What France proves is when someone demonstrates that people are not powerless, they may begin to act again".