Sentence examples for powerlessness to protect from inspiring English sources
Later in life, he would work for seventeen years in a children's hospital, and the physical wounds he would witness that were inflicted on the children and their powerlessness to protect themselves, would have a profound effect on his own expression.
One of the pleasures of reading "The Rotifer" in the context of Gavell's other work arises from seeing that it's part of her continual concern with the ambiguities of motherhood: the pain of separateness, of powerlessness, of being unable to protect the ones you love from their history.
When early suffragists chained themselves to public buildings, it was to protect their public powerlessness.
Then the European Commission took it to court, hunting was banned once more and poaching rocketed.Permitting some hunting can also mitigate the sense of powerlessness felt by people told they can do nothing to protect themselves from wild beasts.
The powerlessness the book evokes, of blacks not being able to protect their own bodies and property, is a feat of courage amidst the sea of generally disingenuous positivity concerning racial matters in this country.
Since physicians see so much suffering, this 'masculine protest' helps physicians to protect themselves against admitting to uncertainty, vulnerability and feelings of powerlessness.
Lou's speech about how people just don't do the right thing any more, as he sits outside in the middle of the night to protect his family from some unseen phantom, rings true with a palpable sense of powerlessness.
They witnessed their father's powerlessness to save the women he loved from being raped and his humiliated frustration at being unable to protect the little ones.
The sense of powerlessness and fury flooded back this week as I realised that while people watched and photographed (and profited from) a tearful woman in London, no one did a damn thing to protect her from assault.
She also portrays the inability of the UN peacekeepers to protect the civilian population because of their limited, and ineffective, mandate – they could fire only when they were fired upon, and technically protect only the humanitarian aid workers, not the civilians themselves (though there were some heroic souls who broke that mandate because they were so disgusted by their powerlessness).
