Sentence examples for powerless to fix from inspiring English sources
243: these decisions held the court powerless to fix mail pay rates or classifications, both functions being found to be within the exclusive purview of the Commission.
These people, whatever their gender, are sad people who need to get a life, but don't know how to because they always blame others for what goes wrong in theirs, leaving them feeling powerless to fix their lives themselves.
SIBA, Iraq — The Shatt al Arab, the river that flows from the biblical site of the Garden of Eden to the Persian Gulf, has turned into an environmental and economic disaster that Iraq's newly democratic government is almost powerless to fix.
The lack of Afghan cooperation in the investigation sharply illustrates what for the United States has become an uncomfortable facet of the war in Afghanistan: by continuing to finance and work with an Afghan government and military seen as corrupt at almost all levels, the United States and its allies have helped create a problem they now seem powerless to fix.
"You don't need to sit in a stocktake meeting at No 10 Downing Street to see the obvious truth: our immigration system is completely broken, and as long as we're in the EU, our elected governments are powerless to fix it.
While it's not fun for developers to see negative reviews for a problem that they were powerless to fix, it makes sense to not wipe out all the customer reviews that came in while the issue was occurring.
You may want to believe that your gossiping boss isn't your problem to fix or that you're powerless to do anything about it.
Finding a way to fix something and not doing it will only make you feel more powerless.
The new decision said courts are powerless to carry out the fixes sought by two veterans groups that sued the department in 2007, saying that hundreds of thousands of veterans had to wait an average of four years to fully receive the mental health benefits owed them.
