Sentence examples for powerless to exercise from inspiring English sources

Trust is particularly important for these people, because they tend to be powerless to exercise their rights or to enforce any kind of contract (which is not to say they could not be parties to a contract, including the social contract; see Silvers and Francis 2005).

Even people who had suffered significant economic loss in the flooding disaster did not want bilateral agencies or Islamist groups simply to assume that their poverty made them politically powerless, unable to exercise political choice or voice.

For more than 10 years I thought about starting an exercise program, but felt powerless to do so.

"Now, you're powerless to do anything".

But I was powerless to do anything".

Hibs looked powerless to do anything about their plight.

The Government appeared powerless to do anything to stop them.

"Somehow we all felt powerless to do anything about it".

But Hague is powerless to do more without aircraft carriers.

But they are also powerless to do anything about it.

I felt powerless to do anything".