Sentence examples for powerless to decide from inspiring English sources

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The Great Commission is powerless to decide.

A third but unlikely option would be for the court to say it is powerless to decide the issue.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, in Richmond, Va., ruled last year that the 1867 law left courts for now powerless to decide the health care law's constitutionality.

Justice Sotomayor wanted to provide an answer to whether there is a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, while the other two women said the court was powerless to decide the question in the context of a challenge to California's ban on the practice.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, in Richmond, Va., ruled last year that it was powerless to decide the law's constitutionality for now, and a prominent judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit agreed.

Of course the two problems are not entirely disconnected, because it is open to us to consider alternative possible modifications of the web of beliefs as alternative theories or theoretical "systems" between which the empirical evidence alone is powerless to decide.

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Decide how to decide.

Principal Mr. Evans Raymond Baileyy) is sympathetic, but powerless to help, so Danny decides to drop out of school.

The UK Independence party leader, Nigel Farage, said: "It is ironic that at the precise moment that the government are signing us up to a new EU legal order which leaves us powerless, they decide they want to champion Britishness".

But he can't get away from the fact that it's going to be a grim few years - a grim few years that he has decided he is powerless to confront.

Or maybe we've decided that we know the truth, hate it and feel powerless to change anything.

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