Sentence examples for viewed as powerless from inspiring English sources

One characteristic joins the people subjected to these harsh practices: they are members of marginalized groups viewed as powerless to oppose police abuse effectively.

Guided by this perspective, the present study troubled the common thinking concerning how families of children with disabilities are viewed as powerless and vulnerable individuals in practice albeit legislation's intention.

The manager studied in isolation (as a person or "naked ape" as Law calls him i.e. without objects), as opposed to as part of a network, is viewed as relatively powerless.

No other trace of a notion of divine essence in humankind is discernible; in fact, human beings were viewed as being utterly powerless to act effectively or to succeed in anything.

There's an old saw in my hometown, the place I fled at 18 and returned to at 48, that perfectly illustrates the way too many people I see around me here view themselves as powerless victims: As a crab tries to claw its way out of a bucket of crabs, one crabber says to another, "Better put a lid on those crabs or they'll get out".

The most frightening thing in Monday's town hall meeting was seeing people in the audience express the fact that they have come to view themselves as powerless in their daily lives; this is the death of the American dream.

In 100 days, some 800,000 Tutsis and Hutus viewed as sympathetic to them were murdered, and Dallaire was powerless to stop it.

Boycott threats from conservatives have proved mostly powerless -- as when the sales of the Clorox Company a decade ago were unaffected by a boycott called by the family association for sponsoring shows with content it viewed as objectionable.

Booker is viewed as undecided.

Applicants are viewed as commodities.

You are not as powerless as you appear.