Sentence examples for powerless to define from inspiring English sources

His position is that of a lay theologian, a scholar & commentator, writer, & lecturer who, though he by no means explores all the ramifications of the mystical doctrine he comes as close as anyone can to delineate it, though he is powerless to define it logically.

He often uses misogyny to define the trait of a villain, and his protagonists tend to be loner heroes who start out powerless but then regain control from community in order to fulfill a purpose.

The U.N. Security Council, at the behest of Western powers, refuses to intervene (or even to define the slaughter as "genocide"), and the priest can do little but give the children communion and celebrate the pity of a powerless God.

And when it comes to vaguely defined offenses like "subversion of state power" or the invoking of "state secrets" laws, even the best-trained lawyers are powerless to defend the accused.

The Great Commission is powerless to decide.

If there are states of affairs that an omnipotent agent is powerless to bring about, then how is the notion of omnipotence intelligibly to be defined?

We leave our houses to live in booths, defined by their permeable roofs of branches, which, as those of us in London well know, are powerless to impede the rain.

The limited set of options for addressing polypharmacy leave GPs feeling powerless to tackle the problem.

Khatami was powerless to intervene.

was powerless to compel his attendance..

"The picture itself is powerless to show".