Sentence examples for proving powerless from inspiring English sources

GOOD IDEAS AREN'T ENOUGH The Greek government is proving powerless to transform an inefficient public administration that has served as a power base for the same political leaders now being asked to dismantle it.

In Greece, the government of the technocratic prime minister, Lucas Papademos, is proving powerless to transform an inefficient public administration that has long served as a power base for the same political leaders — including most of the current government's ministers — who are now being asked to dismantle it.

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, 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.

With Brian Horton, the manager who proved powerless to prevent relegation, gone, Steve King arrived at a time of rapid change.

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.

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.