Sentence examples for were helpless to stop from inspiring English sources

Republicans opposed the 1979 law that established the Education Department but were helpless to stop Mr. Carter and the Democratic majorities in Congress.

The Americans said they knew Lithuania had players big and small who could shoot, yet they were helpless to stop them when it counted.

But he acknowledges only a convincing performance in Sydney next week will restore self-belief and faith in a team that were helpless to stop Australia scoring at more than five runs an over at the end to win.

Inter finished third, two places above their city rivals, but the ultimate prize eluded them and they were helpless to stop the inexorable rise of Osvaldo Bagnoli's Verona, who won a miraculous first Scudetto title.

OTTAWA — Walls of flame driven by strong, shifting winds raged out of control on Wednesday in and around the evacuated city of Fort McMurray, Alberta, where firefighters were helpless to stop the destruction and where about 88,000 people had fled their homes.

Vicious bite and rake marks leave a bloody reminder of what just happened to the helpless victim who was cornered with nowhere to hide and no family members to protect her; even the humans who looked on from a few feet away were helpless to stop the attack -- or too disinterested to care.

Her mother and I are helpless to stop this.

Yet Matola and the N.R.D.C. are helpless to stop it.

Vassar was helpless to stop, or even slow, his mother's descent into dementia.

If people are helpless to stop themselves from feeling empathy, they might likewise be unable to stoke it.

The Nets' offense had disintegrated late Saturday night in a 102-89 loss to the Miami Heat, and Williams, their All-Star point guard, had been helpless to stop it.