Sentence examples for was so powerless from inspiring English sources

But if Mr. Thompson, as he suggested several times, was so powerless as board president then that would seem to make his argument that mayoral control would not have been possible were it not for "the work that I did" all the more weak.

Add to that the memory of when I was so powerless, back there in Baltimore, watching that little goblin bum-rush his way to success on my friend's inspiration and labor, and unable to do anything about it, has metastasized into an abiding resentment, a core-of-the-sun rage that I now indulge to overkill extremes.

"We are so powerless," she said.

Women are so powerless to challenge this discrimination.

"No one is so powerless they are beneath the law's protection".

"Maybe because I'm so powerless over so much of my life".

The women are so powerless that dumping even a violent lover can be difficult.

The Republicans were so powerless that they amassed fewer votes than the Liberal Party in the election of 1985.

"All these mosques were going up, but our people were so powerless and the mosques did nothing for them".

Also, children, because they are so powerless, are often afraid, and so they watch their environment very carefully, and this creates a certain distance.

That description flatters them and tends to infer that we are so powerless to deal with this menace that we should not even bother to try.