Sentence examples for powerless to save from inspiring English sources

But in death he is powerless to save the divided party he has left behind.

Camra says that in most cases communities have been powerless to save their locals.

At the time, Sir Horace Rowland of the British Foreign Office said the UK was powerless to save her.

She sings it like a one-woman Greek chorus powerless to save the subject of the song from himself.

"I am particularly concerned that the killing of Hatch took place with prison officers outside the cell but apparently powerless to save him.

I managed a sickly return smile and watched, powerless to save the passengers as they pushed their way determinedly up the gangways of the Titanic.

Although he rejoined the queen and prince in Paris in 1648, Hyde remained a powerless spectator of Charles I's last efforts to save his throne and his life.

These are the tsunamis of economic and social change that drive history forwards, leaving individuals helplessly bobbing along in their wake, powerless to shape their own destiny or sometimes even to save their own skins.

The journey from Kansas to Oz is a rite of passage from a world in which Dorothy's parent substitutes, Auntie Em and Uncle Henry, are powerless to help her save her dog, Toto, from the marauding Miss Gulch into a world where the people are her own size and she is never, ever treated as a child but as a heroine.

He has formed sensible budget policies that are not dedicated to protecting the powerful, and has worked to save the social safety net to protect the powerless.

This latest twist in the crisis requires Germany, rather than an ultimately powerless commissioner in Brussels, to state what it is prepared to do to save the eurozone.