Sentence examples for powerless to effect from inspiring English sources

Faced with grinding privation every day, social workers can feel powerless to effect meaningful change.

Would anyone say, Ms. Kagan asked, that Congress was powerless "to effect that kind of public safety measure?" Justice Anthony M. Kennedy responded that Congressional power over interstate commerce would support that action.

As consumers of health care services, we feel powerless to effect any changes to the health care system.

As Darwin (1868) recognized, without heritable variation with which to work, even the choosiest breeder or most diligent farmer would be powerless to effect change.

According to positive psychology, AB can regulate people's perception of those internal and external realities they are powerless to change, and empower them to effect meaningful change [4].

Most kids begin his course thinking they're powerless to have an effect on their world, "If these high schoolers can start taking little steps, if I can open their eyes, if I can encourage them to participate in the world around them, this class is a success".

But this effort is essential: the alternative is to accept that civic democracy is powerless to influence the effects of financial speculation.

Thanks to a less favourable demography it can expect to grow only 1.6% a year over the next two decades, other things equal, according to the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI .Governments are not entirely powerless to deal with the effects of demographic trends.