Sentence examples for were relatively powerless from inspiring English sources

As Shaplin puts it, the Salem witch trials involved "young women who seized control of a community, who had power, who exercised the power", at a time when many women were relatively powerless.

The issue of retention of GPs in rural areas was a strong theme but supervisors believed they were relatively powerless to influence the registrar's decision.

We were relatively powerless against the famous government emergency ordinance No. 1/2010, which previously restructured social services and, in some cities, dismantled the accredited services where they existed.

In isolation, they're relatively powerless.

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

Individual human beings are relatively powerless creatures, no match for lions or bears.

"As a publisher you are relatively powerless, your key revenue generator is being undermined".

The liberal view, by contrast, is that the poor are relatively powerless.

This reflects the sad truth that for much of history, women have been relatively powerless and unimportant.

The army, though, is relatively powerless to halt violence against Palestinians since this is the remit of the Israeli police.

Instead they appear to be relatively powerless, and what seems to dominate are those parts of the project furthest from the village.