Sentence examples for powerlessness for from inspiring English sources

Foreign firms, of course, have been saying this for decades, while ordinary citizens who have suffered though corporate or bureaucratic negligence have bemoaned their powerlessness for even longer.

Europeans had long taken America's power and Europe's relative powerlessness for granted, until the build-up to the war in Iraq.

Child marriage is a one-way ticket to a life of poverty, illiteracy and powerlessness for girls and the international community needs to take urgent action to stop it, says former prime minister Gordon Brown in a powerful analysis published on Friday.

A few weeks ago Rand Corporation surveyed 3,000 voters and concluded that the most reliable predictor of whether someone will vote for Trump is a feeling of voicelessness and powerlessness: for those without a voice, he offers an excess of voice.

Larson & Nelson (1984) found that having several friends (in prison) was a buffer against perceived powerlessness for women with prior incarceration experience while women who maintained closeness with friends and family on the outside were more likely to perceive themselves as being successful on the inside.

In many cases, even if you know your view of life or behavior is damaging, you may not be able to desist, because we are entangled and enmeshed in a culture that kills us with a thousand little cuts; thus, the powerlessness for one person to change a whole culture by herself.

"Being completely detached from a significant social network that is assumed to be completely reliable can certainly foster feelings of isolation, helplessness and powerlessness and for some, anger," wrote Ms. Kleindorfer in an e- mail.

"The feeling of powerlessness, that for everything you have always to rely on others to help you, that is annoying".

This sense of powerlessness and, for some, an implicit awareness they were being denied basic human rights, culminated in a strong sense of injustice.

It is meant to be a metaphor for the powerlessness of Iranian women since the Islamic Revolution in 1979.

Most of Dahl's young readers are presumably not mistreated, and yet they intuitively understand that the beatings and humiliations meted out to his young characters are metaphors for the powerlessness of being a child.