Sentence examples for powerless trade from inspiring English sources

The city's powerless trade unions, gutted by the years of closures, have even spoken, quietly, of the merits of a Yes vote on Sunday although they might have been influenced by the big Greek media groups who have been giving spectacular coverage to the Yes possibility.

The council owns the port but says it is powerless to stop the trade.

Their point is that with the arrival of the online trade, police are powerless to enforce prohibition.

This is especially true in a nation whose government only accepts trade unions which are powerless government puppets.

Their existence helps undercut one of the peer-to-peer systems' legal arguments, now being heard in federal court: that they are powerless to police the content being traded on their networks.

"They know what's going on," according to Marcelo, one of the money changers, but they also know they're powerless to stop all the illegal trading.

And except for one woman, clearly an "intellectual" who could trade sexual obscenities with them, the powerless once again had no dramatic force.

Both individual investors and mutual fund managers have become powerless in the face of this high-frequency trading, some of which has nothing to do with the calculated or perceived value of a company or stock.

But he was otherwise marooned in his basement office, powerless to influence more consequential policies on infrastructure, education, trade, and China.

The suicide-bomber war will not be ended when powerless brokers list all the points of disputation and then pretend to trade concessions.

Environmentalists, trade unions and other non-governmental organisations denounced it as a multinationals' charter that would leave governments powerless to protect either workers or the planet.