Sentence examples for virtually powerless from inspiring English sources

The minority members now complain that they are virtually powerless.

Indigenous but virtually powerless local administrations were set up in each of the Baltic countries.

We are virtually powerless to stop them because it seems our elected leaders are powerless too.

But even a stronger president would be virtually powerless to engineer a multiyear grand bargain now.

The tunnel is so dark that a bicycle light is virtually powerless.

The President, while calling for a "balanced approach," seemed virtually powerless.

"Since inmates are for the most part a powerless constituency with virtually no political leverage, things can go bad without any redress," he said.

Gershuny advised Interior to take no action, noting that "no court had ever ordered the federal government to file a lawsuit on behalf of anyone, much less a multi-million dollar lawsuit on behalf of a powerless and virtually penniless Indian tribe".

Police Authorities are relatively powerless, and they're virtually invisible to the public.

In a country where crimes were virtually never punished, Castresana says, Rosenberg felt powerless.

If someone has an unneeded generator and people nearby are living without power through no fault of their own, it's virtually impossible to justify not letting a powerless person use it temporarily.