Sentence examples for to powerless from inspiring English sources

The tables turn quickly in politics, but for dictators the shift from all-powerful to powerless can be rather sudden.

Reflecting the decade's trend for grittier stories, Black Canary was shown being savagely attacked and tortured in Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters (1987), going from powerful superheroine to powerless plot point in one story.

In fact, the famine back then was in the same area of Somalia, the lower third, home to powerless minority clans that often bear the brunt of this country's chronic troubles.

Israel's aggressive settlement policies after 1967 and the near-destruction of the secular resistance and nationalist institutions were significant factors in the appeal of radical Islam to powerless and humiliated Palestinians.

But he also suggests that administrators are close to powerless when dealing with the one faction of the university that by and large has a stake in poor undergraduate education, or at least in not doing much to improve it: the faculty, many of whom are more concerned with advancing their own careers than with spending time in the classroom.

Unemployment, discrimination and other generic psychological disorientations of second- or third-generation immigrants make young Muslims in Europe vulnerable to globalised forms of political Islam, many of whose militant versions vend political aphrodisiacs of a restored Islamic community to powerless individuals.

If it bursts, monetary policy is likely to be powerless to revive the economy.

But her agency appeared to be powerless to stop a devastating epidemic of Ebola last year.

I'm rooted to the ground, powerless to move.

It's easy to feel powerless.

We are appalled, angered and saddened to be powerless.