After the Department of Buildings decided it was too dangerous to stand as is, he said, the commission was powerless to stop the process.
With more realignment seemingly to come — the boards of the University of Oklahoma and the University of Texas each met on Monday to discuss possible moves — the National Collegiate Athletic Association is powerless to oversee the process, the way a commissioner would in professional sports.
If that really is the Syrian stance, it would force the regime's Russian ally to enter into a confrontation with the Syrian leadership, and Vladimir Putin will not accept, after having reached an understanding with Barack Obama, to appear weak, ignorant or powerless to implement the process of political transition he has agreed to.
The DBS says that although it has a service level agreement with police forces to complete 100% of checks within 60 days, it is powerless to speed up the process.
Yet I'm powerless to stop, because the process of letting my curls grow back is near impossible.
When people face real hardship, when they've seen their communities decline in the face of processes they feel powerless to control, they're naturally on the lookout for someone to blame.
The founder was pleased with the outcome but felt powerless to stop this investor from essentially steamrolling the process.
People tend to feel badly about themselves when they feel powerless to get their needs met so you can start this process by figuring out what your needs are.
"Without clear backing from other countries to drive the process forward, it risks making the E.C. powerless to tackle the market failures".
That might well be an accurate description of the political process, but the idea that judges are powerless to resist it and that nothing in the Constitution prohibits naked graft of that kind is profoundly mistaken.
Empowerment is the process through which individuals, communities and organizations increase their self-determination, mainly by augmenting the ability of the powerless to make choices that improve their lives (1– 3).
