Sentence examples for powerless to prove from inspiring English sources

Forget the rest of the claimants to the Iron Throne, our Spider is a Targaryen man through and through, and even has a neat election slogan – "Power, prosperity and a land where the powerful no longer prey on the powerless" – to prove it.

Among these results were Cantor's Theorem, and the theorem of real analysis which states that every set X of real numbers that is bounded above has a least upper bound of the same order as the real numbers in X. Ramified type theory appeared powerless to prove these results.

"The picture itself is powerless to show".

In most cases, league officials have been powerless to stop the practice, because they have been unable to prove the existence of secret agreements.

America has condemned China's "provocative" drilling plans but may prove powerless to thwart them.

Thus far, the GOP contest seems to support (the real) Schumpeter's timeless adage that "The picture of the prettiest girl that ever lived will in the long run prove powerless to maintain the sales of a bad cigarette .Meanwhile, Mr Colbert's satirical superPAC and the burgeoning OWS superPAC offer us a glimmer of the democratic promise of unlimited spending on political speech.

It is the kind of atrocity that the justice system has proved powerless to punish, let alone prevent.

With Brian Horton, the manager who proved powerless to prevent relegation, gone, Steve King arrived at a time of rapid change.

Voltaire, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau were quite simply dangerous heretics, though the Inquisition proved powerless to prevent the clandestine circulation of their works.

But the opera revolves around Captain Vere, who proves powerless to stop the tragedy, performed with deep expressivity and impeccable diction by the British tenor John Daszak.

The Dutch government, whose United Nations peacekeepers proved powerless to defend Srebrenica against General Mladic's forces in July 1995, is pressing the bloc hard for his arrest.