Sentence examples for powerless victim from inspiring English sources

I personally feel that accepting the role of a powerless victim can become a self-fulfilling prophecy and I am unwilling to even entertain that concept!

As for Dallaire, who is considered a hero in Canada, he explains that he was a powerless victim like the 800,000 dead who continue to haunt him.

According to police investigators, Jason Shein was both a blameless victim and a powerless victim: he never had a chance to avoid the sports utility vehicle that hit him, driven by Persi Esquivel, 46, of Valley Stream.

Eventually the soldier is seen stripped to his underwear in a frenzy of abasement, as he seeks to purge his guilt and pain by ritually re-enacting the interrogation process, with the shrink in the role of interrogator and himself as the powerless victim.

In the eyes of both these feminists and Kant, there is the powerful objectifier on the one hand, and on the other hand there exists his powerless victim.

We feel a powerless victim to the label.

One cannot help sympathising with the innocent, powerless victims showcased in their literature.

Habré had presumed that he would get away with it again – but his seemingly powerless victims had held him to account in an African court, on African soil.

It is understandable to see tenants as powerless victims, subject to the whims of their landlord's commercial agenda, but it can and does cut both ways.

It's all too easy to rationalize that we're powerless victims in the face of expectation from others, but doing that is itself a poor use of energy.

Warshawski came out the same year), Grafton was credited with upending the chauvinism that had been a defining quality of hard-boiled fiction, in which female characters were frequently powerless victims or vicious femme fatales.