Sentence examples for powerless to control from inspiring English sources
Police are powerless to control the flow.
War becomes one more problem they feel powerless to control.
The referee is powerless to control what's going on.
He dismissed claims that Mr. Abbas and the Palestinian Authority were powerless to control extremists.
— His home run swing is so instinctual that Adrian Beltre is powerless to control it.
Any family can experience crises that it is powerless to control.
Yesterday's declaration by ECB President Trichet that the Bank would offer European governments unlimited liquidity at fixed interest rates for the next six months was the ultimate confirmation that in fact, the ECB has lost control and is powerless to contain the freefall in Europe.
There is sympathy in her depiction of all the play's characters, who cannot see how powerless they are to control their own fates.
It has been proven consistently that bed-sharing is inherently dangerous and risky for infants, as they are powerless in being able to control their own environment.
The old regional order established by the century-old Sykes-Picot agreement-derived borders is falling as radical nonstate actors seize the initiative and governments appear powerless to stop, control or contain them.
In the long run the economic and ethical costs are a high price for "liberal democracies" to pay -- and all in order to control extremely powerless and vulnerable people who mostly only want a chance to work.
