Sentence examples for powerlessness to do from inspiring English sources

In the past, villagers said, military government officers claimed powerlessness to do anything about the attacks.

"I remember being 26, and I remember being 23 and several other instances of sexual harassment... and those moments were so debilitating because I was aware of my own powerlessness to do anything," she said.

But the resulting depression from his firing, the loss of trust from his wife and his inability to find another job combined with his promises to stop looking at fakes, but his powerlessness to do so led to her leaving him ten months later, taking his two young daughters.

Meanwhile Yasser Arafat, head of the Palestinian Authority (PA) and still leader of the biggest of those "moderate forces" Israel expects to take over in Gaza, remains marooned in his Ramallah headquarters, assailed by Palestinians outraged by the Israeli action but powerless to do anything about it.That powerlessness, concedes a PA minister, merely helps Hamas.

The guilt that we can just walk away to a safe home or on rest and recuperation (R&R) while they remain faced with the same realities – sometimes for their entire lives – is as much part of the job as the empathy you feel, the powerlessness at not being able to do more for them.

Of course the opposite is the reality: violence towards women has everything to do with powerlessness and being completely out of control.

Among its deeper themes, "Loving Graham Greene" is a meditation on the powerlessness of those who simply want to do good in the world.

"When you can save one million dollars in one shot after all that experience of powerlessness, I really feel you need to do it," Ferrandez says, referring to the savings that can be had from cutting back on snow removal.

Researchers surmise such persistent trust issues have to do with feelings of powerlessness and lack of control.

But it must be the problem is that it also has something to do with my own powerlessness.

I suppose it has much to do — as does this story — with powerlessness.