Sentence examples for proved powerless from inspiring English sources

But, in the end, even President Ilham Aliyev's feared security services proved powerless against the weather.

It is the kind of atrocity that the justice system has proved powerless to punish, let alone prevent.

But, in the case of his 2014 menswear collection, he proved powerless against his own fashion instincts.

But it seems the charms of even 45 celebrated six-toed cats have proved powerless against one implacable foe: federal regulators.

Voltaire, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau were quite simply dangerous heretics, though the Inquisition proved powerless to prevent the clandestine circulation of their works.

The Dutch government, whose United Nations peacekeepers proved powerless to defend Srebrenica against General Mladic's forces in July 1995, is pressing the bloc hard for his arrest.

Shorn of his uniform, he may, as many fear, prove powerless.

America has condemned China's "provocative" drilling plans but may prove powerless to thwart them.

But the opera revolves around Captain Vere, who proves powerless to stop the tragedy, performed with deep expressivity and impeccable diction by the British tenor John Daszak.

But they have proven powerless to reverse the action, ordered by leaders of the judiciary, Teheran-based diplomats and political analysts say.

The soaring speeches and mammoth crowds that fueled his rise in donations and in the polls have lately proven powerless to stop Mrs. Clinton from carrying Ohio, Texas and Pennsylvania.