Sentence examples for powerless to release from inspiring English sources
The government will be free to seize anyone it wants simply by saying the magic words "enemy combatant," and the courts will be powerless to release such people from prison, or even provide them with lawyers.
The Libyan leadership said on Wednesday night it was powerless to release four officials from the international criminal court detained last week while visiting Muammar Gaddafi's imprisoned son, Saif al-Islam.
Powerless to release her music commercially, in 2010 she instead posted the sensational mixtape Can't Take That Away From Me, an eclectic assemblage of tracks ranging from the shouty Neptunes hip-hop of "Pretty Please" to the straightforward pop of the title track.
Democratically elected governments appear powerless to turn things around.
The paper, published in the journal Current Anthropology, turned him into something of a popular hero but a professional lightning rod, embraced in the press as a giant killer who had felled the mighty Chomsky but denounced by some fellow linguists as a fraud, an attention seeker or worse, promoting dubious ideas about a powerless indigenous group while refusing to release his data to skeptics.
You may feel angry when you find yourself powerless to change a situation, but you have to acknowledge your anger in order to release it.
The prospect of large sums of ransom money appears to be their main motivation.The government, which hopes emissaries will persuade the kidnappers to begin talks, has appeared powerless to secure the release of the hostages.
However, this exception does not mean the Punjab Government is powerless to grant the release of the Sikh political prisoners.
Justice Goodman noted she was "powerless to impose" a speedy release for Mr. South, but ordered a new parole hearing "forthwith".
Yet they feel powerless to do much about it, according to a survey of 95 presidents released Monday by the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, a watchdog group.
Liverpool were also powerless to stand in the 27-year-old's way once the £75m release clause in his contract had been met.
