Sentence examples for seeming powerlessness from inspiring English sources

Tells about the seeming powerlessness of prison officials to stop A.B.'s murders.

Despite the ICC's seeming powerlessness, many governments' leaders are engaged in strenuous efforts to block the indictment.

Jimmy Carter's seeming powerlessness in the face of the Iranian hostage crisis and its failed desert rescue mission paved the way for Ronald Reagan's military buildup and his challenge to the "Evil Empire" of Soviet Communism.

The 70's revelations about C.I.A. coup attempts and other skulduggery gave way to the Carter administration's seeming powerlessness in the Iranian hostage crisis and the Reagan-era rebound in defense spending and the end of the cold war.

On March 7 2015, the 50th anniversary of Selma, the president recounted the awe-inspiring story of what happened in Alabama in 1965: Despite their seeming powerlessness, African-Americans and their allies engaged in nonviolent protest that compelled a nation to live up to its principles; they looked white supremacist terror in the face and marched on to freedom.

Seeming legislative powerlessness in the face of repeated student complaints over tuition may have been a motive.

She talks at speed without seeming to take breath; what impresses is the mix of power and powerlessness in her performance.

A demonstration at Brighton station attracted those people whose trains arrived on time, but seemed to emphasise people's powerlessness.

In banning such items as funeral scarves and elaborate mourning dress, the colonists seem to have been admitting to powerlessness, as if their desire for British goods were itself the instrument of their subjugation.

While American women enjoy the legal rights and cultural visibility that might be called, for short, power, there are places in the world where honor killings or female infanticide make womanhood seem like the very definition of powerlessness.

Too many of us seem far too fond of narratives of our powerlessness, maybe because powerlessness lets us off the hook.