Sentence examples for state of powerlessness from inspiring English sources
He kept them "in a state of powerlessness," prosecutors said, "through a program of prolonged physical, sexual and psychological violence".
That was especially so when an experiment put them into a temporary state of powerlessness, like having to take orders from a boss.
However, given the highly dominant power relationships between men and women, boys and girls, separate components that specifically address women's and girls' unique needs and their state of powerlessness need to be individually developed and implemented.
The trouble with looking for answers outside of ourselves is that we create and perpetuate a state of powerlessness.
Through the characters of women, migrants, prostitutes, the illiterate, the imprisoned, madmen and seers, he charts extreme states of powerlessness and invisibility, entrapment and rebellion, or, as he writes in his fictional meditation on ageing, Silent Day in Tangier (1990), of solitude "so absolute the self dissolves".
Detention re-traumatizes survivors and plunges them back into a state of relative powerlessness.
The goal of this manipulation, Curtis suggests, is to spread a state of bewilderment and powerlessness across the globe.
The Israeli reaction to serious peacemaking efforts is nothing less than pathological — the consequence of an inability to adjust to the Jewish people's reentry into history with a state of their own following 2,000 years of powerlessness and victimhood.
Yes -- 1968 was a climax of bad news where the actual state of insecurity and hopelessness and powerlessness and the defeat of idealism was constant, and I wanted that to be both Don's internal story and the story of the people experiencing it.
To investigate this question Joris Lammers at Tilburg University, in the Netherlands, and Adam Galinsky at Northwestern University, in Illinois, have conducted a series of experiments which attempted to elicit states of powerfulness and powerlessness in the minds of volunteers.
Did the title refer to (a) the state of the world, (b) America's powerlessness in the United Nations or (c) the atmosphere in the delegates' dining room?
