The people, on the other hand, if forced to disprove his claim, would be relatively helpless.
Diplomats say they are relatively helpless when a foreign business owner is embroiled in such disputes.
But the reality is that employees are relatively helpless in the face of an abusive supervisor.
This is because children are relatively helpless and are dependent on their parents for love, care, security, and support and because their psychosexual, aggressive, and other impulses are not yet integrated into a stable personality framework.
Newborn rat pups, for example, are relatively helpless; their eyes do not open for about two weeks, and their main sources of sensory input are probably touch and smell.
But Granderson has been relatively helpless in that capacity, failing in the Yankees quest to get the Orioles to play a doubleheader on Friday, and then not finding out the ultimate solution — that one of Saturday's postponed games was rescheduled for Sept. 8 — until he was in the on-deck circle when it was announced during Friday's loss.
From his place of safety in the north, Gebhard understood well the potential of the loss of the Godesburg, yet he was relatively helpless to help his garrison.
Emphasize that they are lucky to have found this person, without whom they would likely be relatively helpless - and mention they would have trouble adequately fending for themselves without their spouse.
The young of many species are born relatively helpless: in songbirds, rats, cats, dogs, and primates, the hatchling or newborn infant is wholly dependent on its parents.
We reserve a special kind of enmity for bedbugs because, though humans generally do not like being anywhere other than at the pinnacle of a food chain, there is a particular horror associated with being consumed while relatively helpless, asleep in what should be the security of one's own bed (or chair or couch).
