Sentence examples for would be powerless from inspiring English sources

And Mexico would be powerless to stop him.

Numerical optimization plays a major role but in itself would be powerless without geometric understanding.

Then their parents would be powerless against them.

Under this reading, the Park Service would be powerless to stop her.

If he died, his wife and kids would be powerless in Iraq.

But it would be powerless if America did not have such strong cultural affinities with Israel.

Good thing he wasn't in the female or children's changing room, because then he'd be powerless against their attacks.

I didn't even try to tell them about it: I knew they wouldn't understand, and I thought they'd be powerless to change things in any case.

And when those eyes of his (paired with the light scruff around his mouth) caught yours from an album cover, almost daring you to look away with their confidence, they also seemed to know you'd be powerless not to.

And also, you wouldn't want to get sauce down your new shirt, and the bouncer'd probably nick a bit of the beef and pass it off as banter and you'd be powerless to do anything because he's the bouncer and it was just banter and you're the clubber and he's the bouncer and if he says it's banter then it's definitely banter and you'd better suck it up and watch him eat your crispy chili beef.

Not anger, but resignation, because there was nothing to be done now, and pain because he'd been powerless to prevent it.