Sentence examples for powerless to issue from inspiring English sources

The ethics office appeared to be hindered in its review because, unlike the committee, it is powerless to issue subpoenas or compel witnesses or lawmakers to testify.

Lacking a quorum, the commission has been left powerless to issue advisory opinions for candidates, write new reform regulations, open investigations and file lawsuits against violators.

Because officials in California had declined to appeal a trial court's decision against them, and because the proponents of the ban were not entitled to step into the state's shoes to appeal the decision, the court said, it was powerless to issue a decision.

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

An organization as powerful and all encompassing as the NCAA, who recently found a USC student athlete guilty of getting an impermissible benefit by riding in a golf cart for five minutes between buildings says they are powerless to address the issue of pedophilia in college locker rooms.

"Many in EU see the EU as bureaucratic, undemocratic, far from the daily concerns of and powerless to solve major issues such as migration".

The group says retail employees have told them they dislike handling the magazines but feel powerless to take up the issue with their employers.

There is no expectation the Marshall Islands challenge will force the three powers to disarm, but the archipelago's campaign highlights a growing avenue for small countries, previously thought powerless, to raise problems and issues through global tribunals.

Commissioner Goodell and the rest of the NFL's staff seem powerless to address these character issues.

Today, amid strong demand but stagnant productivity, the bank says it is powerless to do much about the issue.Lift the bonnet of the economy and it emerges that the fastest-improving part is the transport-manufacturing industry.

Yet it seems powerless to address even the basic issues of clean water and sewers that would make such epidemics entirely preventable — a paradox that critics attribute to corruption, incompetence or the hangover of a 27-year civil war that flooded the capital with refugees, or all three.