Sentence examples for powerless to use from inspiring English sources

Government blunders have left police powerless to use a new law to catch paedophiles, top child safety experts have warned.

Aides to Mr. Pataki say Mr. Cuomo will be powerless to use that argument against Mr. Pataki, because so many voters blame his father, Mario M. Cuomo, whom Mr. Pataki unseated in 1994, for the state of the economy.

And because California's school finance system, almost alone among the states, is controlled by the state, it is highly dependent on economically driven shifts in personal income tax receipts, and localities are relatively powerless to use the more stable property tax to make improvements on their own.

We are not powerless to use our constitutional system to avoid disaster..

All I am suggesting is that we are not powerless to use our constitutional system to avoid disaster.

The only question is whether we'll learn from history, as Americans just barely did in the 1960s, or suffer the fate of the Soviet Union, which ignored the science until it was bankrupt and powerless to use its weapons.

We see how little the powerless had to use against those who might hate them.

Why do we seem convinced technology has to capture and control and do everything — as if we humans are powerless to choose how to use our own tools?

This research is great news for two groups in particular: women and introverts, both of whom tend naturally to use powerless communication styles and worry that this is a bad thing in a take-charge world.

The goal of social justice movements should not be state-of-the-art mastery over these techniques and technologies, but rather the creation of "citizens' media" (in Clemencia Rodriguez's terms): a new communication order that enables the powerless to shape media production, to use it to produce cultures of direct participation, and in so doing to constitute a new social force.

Another told Sky News that some are armed with knives "and they're not afraid to use them", leaving drivers powerless to tell them to get out.