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Sentence Examples Angry, powerless people turned to communal social violence when they felt there was no legal recourse available to them. He is equally good as the powerless schlemiel whose life is collapsing all around him, and who takes his power at the expense of his captive. British politicians think that we are powerless to resist the temptations of convenience food. Generally, they are marginal and powerless people, often with no security of land tenure and inhabiting mainly the upland areas. Local councillors are almost powerless, and even the best constituency MP is unlikely to rock the boat against a three-line whip in Parliament. Like most victims of pollution, email recipients are powerless against the polluters. Traffic wardens were powerless to ticket him because the law says penalties cannot be given out if the lines are obscured. The film's portrayal of a powerless woman dragged along by the tide of events doesn't lend itself to edge of the seat plot twists. Children start off powerless and incapable, dependent on the adults around them for their safety and for the fulfillment of every need. In many cases, the girl has intentionally been fed a Mickey Finn and is physically powerless to prevent a gang-rape from unfolding. The litany of daily miseries suffered by the powerless public of the subcontinent on both sides of the border should make us ask, why? The trouble with this rage, though, was that the stronger I felt it, the more powerless I felt. The Cabinet opponents seem to amount to little more than a clutch of powerless bleaters. Zoe's screams of fear and rage became muffled as he began to engulf her, and she realized how powerless she was in her current state. I would guess that one of the reasons our judiciary is somewhat unpolitical, is that it is so powerless. Poverty, social inequities, ignorance, sexism, racism, and unsupportive relationships may render a woman virtually powerless to choose freely. The Council appears to be powerless to do anything to improve or upgrade them, said Mr Stanley. The upshot is that for the forseable future, the Reserve Bank is essentially powerless. In a scene played for laughs, he even watches a video about voodoo so he can render her powerless to resist his advances. One of the strongest non-random patterns is that rich and powerful people are healthier than poor and powerless people. Show More Sentences The Forest Department is powerless to evict them since local politicians, smelling a profitable vote bank, have rallied to the squatters' cause. The generators which had been powerless now were buzzing and singing full of energy. As a result, the new prime minister, his cabinet and the National Assembly will be virtually powerless. This direct approach got the job done much faster than using the appeal channels that are designed to stall you and make you powerless. Without these feelings I would be powerless to strive for change, to do better in future. And yet I'm powerless to do anything about it other than sit here and watch, hoping against hope that it'll get better before it gets worse. But Mr Dempsey rejected the judge's claims that the Government had stymied the commission's work or had left the chairperson powerless. The security measures sanctioned by the state serve only to widen the chasm between the powerful and powerless. Councillor Ryan said the council was powerless to prevent the trees from being chopped down as it does not own the land. It became an unforgettable encounter when our raft capsized, and I was swept along powerless in its icy unbridled current. The courts are also powerless to ensure maintenance for herself and her children during the pendency of the trial. It's so easy to feel powerless in the face of all this stuff that it's very easy to give up. To argue that we are powerless to change the political environment in the face of irrational fanaticism is a perverse form of defeatism. Watching her thrown into this heartbreaking cycle of events made us feel so small, so impotent, so powerless. He still felt incapable of movement or speech, powerless, though he did not feel in any pain. There will be nothing to stop its military incursions against its powerless neighbour whenever it sees fit to do so. The current, ever-present threat of an imminent war can often make people feel fearful and powerless. I have felt powerless, disgusted, frustrated, horrified and even fearful this week, all in equal measure. Protagonists are helpless and feeble, benighted, physically weak and powerless. You have to persuade them that they are insignificant and powerless so they will live their lives in accordance with that. Show More Sentences That is a disadvantage I am powerless to overcome, unless it be by forewarning and forearming those readers who zealously seek the truth. They cower in fear and are thus powerless, because somebody who feels fear is easily controlled, intimidated and subjugated. A Wakefield Council spokeswoman said it shared the frustrations of landowners but it was powerless to act. Shakespeare's most virulent cursers are always the most oppressed and powerless. They kept floating upwards and at first, even with my weight belt on, I was powerless to stop them. They probably want to force their own ideas on a general public that is deemed powerless to stop them. Hundreds of people were kept awake in their beds by an all-night party because police were powerless to act. The Government can control some areas of policy and are powerless to control others. Many residents, who have had all their tyres slashed, say police seem powerless to stop it. He knew what was going to happen next, and the worse thing was, he was powerless to stop it. They are laughing because, like us, they are powerless to dream up anything better to do. Many don't even know there's a code of ethics, or if they do, feel powerless to enforce it. This is set to take place on December 19 and the board seems powerless to stop it. I could hear myself snapping at my daughter and bullying my husband but I was powerless to stop. These could be extremely damaging to local economies, which felt powerless to influence them. But the police said they were powerless to deal with them if they hadn't committed a crime. They do and we are powerless to stop it, like brittle ships fighting against waves during a storm. This gradually ebbed as they seemed powerless to prevent their opponents decamping in their half. League clubs appear powerless to stop their top stars leaving, but a decade ago, the boot was on the other foot. Many communities, especially those near schools, feel powerless to stop the march of the masts. Show More Sentences Mary feels quite powerless to protect her own daughter and to influence where she is going and what she is doing online. Scotland's fishing fleet has been decimated and the rest of us were as powerless as the Scottish Minister for Fishing. It is a likely candidate for glocalization, because of its stated aim to include the traditionally powerless in decision-making processes. Minority Democrats on that committee are powerless to push the issue, and Democrats generally are pulling their punches. Its citizens are economically powerless in their capacity both as workers and as consumers. And the child was elated because she had been consulted, she didn't feel powerless. As specified by deprivation theory, people who feel powerless and dispossessed are especially likely to look to religion for compensation. With a pointing finger, he exhorts the crowd of young law students to stop the assault on the powerless. He feels helpless and powerless to do anything to change things for the better. Pilots had some control over their fate, which gave them a status above the powerless foot soldiers in the trenches below. They were a subdued and powerless people owing their very existence to landlords and their agents who worked them to the bond with rack rents. Alma remembered every second of those nights, how powerless she felt when she saw him beside her, his skin swollen with welts. This in no way means that God is powerless, as some critics of kenotic theology have complained. If the developers decide to put the road on part of the track bed then the town council will be powerless to stop them. The British mission with the Partisans proved powerless to restrain them and a British officer sent in to mediate was killed in an air raid. And it's very easy for me to look into the eyes of a child and remember being that kid, feeling so powerless, wishing somebody would help me. And then it finally sank in that he was beyond all hope, and that she was powerless to stop him. Finally, when given the opportunity to effect change, many powerless people choose the path of least resistance. The booming voice and scare tactics turn out to be a ruse, a way of hiding a small and powerless man, who is no wizard at all. The colour from her tan had all but drained from her, her limbs were heavy and powerless, but she was by no means dead. Show More Sentences The Bill of Rights, and especially the First Amendment, were intended to protect the powerless from the tyranny of the powerful. There is, it seems, a certain sort of human pathology, male pathology, to which this appeals, just as serial killers get a kick from their power over the powerless. Elsewhere, where Hindus did convert, it was not the hoped-for Brahmins, but the powerless and disenfranchized lower castes and untouchables who made the change. In future local authorities, which are currently powerless, will be able to issue formal notices instructing the reduction of a hedge's height and its long-term maintenance. A constant refrain in the media, for example, is that we in the West are the tireless champions of the powerless and oppressed, unbiased by self-interest. Away with palsied, powerless preaching which is unmoving because it was born in a tomb instead of a womb and nourished in a fireless, prayer less soul. For this reason he reserved the right of the state to intervene so that the economically powerless could not be exploited by the economically powerful. Hundreds of women and children leave the country to earn money abroad, and found themselves on the streets, becoming an easy and powerless victim of souteneurs and pedophiles. With a soft hum of power the large rotors started up and the officers were off, soaring up to investigate the powerless upper levels of the massive city. He had been scared and powerless to protect himself, and Moscow had been silent. Of course, it may not be wholly appropriate to compare the once-powerful Qusai and Uday to the anonymous and powerless African Americans set upon by white lynch mobs. Anger and hatred are powerless in the face of authentic human kindness. Unable to make it to a hospital, or too afraid, parents are dying at home alongside kids who are powerless to save them. Hanifa and her father and mother and brother spent 10 days on the mountain, fearing for the girls, but powerless to help them. Given the fact that manhood is associated with power, and being powerless is seen as unmanly, violence becomes a means to prove otherwise to others and oneself. Mayor Ben West met them there, and repeated his usual explanation of how the city was powerless to change segregation. So far the authorities are powerless to intervene because the building under construction conforms exactly to the plans approved by the local council. If you feel compelled to watch this movie by some masochistic tendency you are powerless to control, then regard it as a comedy, not as a Western. At the end of the day, doctoral students are in a relatively powerless position within academic institutions and potentially exploitative situations can arise. Most perimeter defenders are powerless against his first step and pull-up jumpers. Show More Sentences I am powerless before the scented entreaties of an aesthetic appeal! To capture the mystery, caprice and force of romantic love, the ancients conjured Cupid, a mischievous immortal in whose thrall we are wholly powerless. Thus we were ordered to tipsily navigate the darkened, traffic light-less, wreckage covered streets to our hot, powerless, and, in some cases, devastated homes. Even the most magnificent landscapes are powerless without figures, not forgetting Poussin's Arcadia, were it devoid of the shepherds and the sepulchral inscription. William has not launched legal action and appears to recognise he is powerless to stop the pictures appearing all over the world. We can be sure, first of all, that the PBMA works like a mutual benefit society, offering a broad range of assistance to the underprivileged and powerless. But the malpractice system is not robust in China, and patients feel powerless. The imperial court was a secluded world of its own, politically powerless, but well equipped with funds by the governing shoguns to dedicate themselves to fine arts. I had my every move recorded and felt powerless to stop the intimidation. Thus, they are impotent, powerless to confront the current regime. The American people are powerless to stop any of this lunacy. While quarantined, she was seemingly powerless to challenge her banishment to a tent in Newark. So we are inclined to side with the powerless rather than the powerful. Yet it happened, and he felt helpless, powerless, and impotent. Later the lack of a common radio frequency among some units leaves Marines powerless to prevent another unit from firing on defenseless civilians. The communists, like Al Qaeda, started with a utopian dream of righting wrongs and empowering the powerless. In fact, increasingly, people are becoming frustrated and feeling voiceless and powerless to control or stop the kind of raunch coming into their homes. However, the reality is far from ideal in that the principle has been quite often dishonored, mostly in cases involving powerless ordinary people. The woman's double exposure, to the physical longing of the man and to the insistent gaze of the narrator, places her in a typically subordinate and powerless position. He also points out that if the US does come under cyberattack, we may be powerless to stop the attack. Show More Sentences You're just a powerless dweebling that has to spew on usenet to feel better about yourself. Civilizational elites infantilize nonelites to keep them powerless. By letting elites babify us, we lose power. Guicciardini was powerless to influence the commander of papal forces, Francesco Maria della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, to take action. Meanwhile, womanhating as a recourse of the powerless is sapping strength from black communities, and our very lives. In the power of the living Christ, however, evil not only can be conceptualized and counteracted but also can be faced and rendered powerless. It is easy to feel powerless to stop unreasonable workloads but there are practical steps you can take to address the issue. She insisted that home and property owners should no longer be powerless in the face of yobbery. Do we blame the wanton schoolboy, with a pebble in his hand, all powerless to resist the alluring vastness of a barndoor? Or are there, as I suspect may be the case, a hardcore of repeat offenders who the Rozzers are powerless to stick behind bars? As such, the Senate and assemblies remained powerless, even after Caesar had been assassinated. Charles issued a warrant for Hotham to be arrested as a traitor but was powerless to enforce it. This proposition is fatal to this appeal, and renders this court jurisdictionless and powerless to proceed to review the cause. The poor crofters were politically powerless, and many of them turned to religion. Royal governors and officials found themselves powerless to stop the rebellion and in many places were forced to flee. The House of Lords was reduced to a largely powerless body, with Cromwell and his supporters in the Commons dominating the Government. Despite this, Ireland's elected representatives seemed powerless to act on the country's behalf as Members of the British Parliament. Even in my most stringent noncarb dieting phase I was weakened and powerless in their presence. It is said that his right arm had grown powerless from having been raised so often over the heads of those whom he baptized. I admit that I am powerless over my hatred towards white people in ways that I am unable to recognize fully, both at this time and in the past. The fuck-boy is not really gay. But he's powerless and so has no choice. Show More Sentences Little Boss put a stop to the funkadelics of Maurice's new radio, but he was powerless to prevent his whistling as he walked about at a smart clip. Thus, the assemblies became powerless and were unable to oppose him. Although he battled through to 12th place, he was powerless to do anything as Byrne used his PBM Kawasaki to head off Honda's Dan Linfoot by half a second. Flying over the frozen Arctic Sea in an Otter, a blown gasket required a rapid, powerless glide to reach safety on a flat bouldery strip of shoreline on Axel Heiberg Island. Young people like you have sponsored devastated refugee families. They've run for cancer research and unbeached whales. Never feel powerless. You have clout. Most of the subjects, Eileen Welsome says, were poor, powerless, and sick. The crew was powerless to correct the sudden imbalance, and could only scramble for the safety of the upper deck as the ship began to sink rapidly. Examples from Classical Literature But these futile ebullitions of malice are powerless to check the triumphal progress of the charabanc in the Eastern Counties. Moreover, she is absolutely powerless to penetrate the mason bee's fortress, powerless as a fluff of down against a rock. Let us change the situation then, but let us change it thoroughly, and so that its fortuity becomes powerless, and a law! The chrysanthemums and the roses and the hardy zenias that came up uncared for were powerless to reinvoke the spirit of the place. To his surprise and annoyance, he found the music stopping short at his tympani, powerless to enter his brain. But the army was faithful to the king, and without it the fronde was powerless. Their purblind spite was powerless to avert the inevitable advent of monocracy. I was conscious of a bit of the rowdy in my manner, but I seemed powerless to prevent it. With all his powers of intellect, he was powerless, because he had no faith in virtue. A cable-car, with clanging bell, was bearing down upon it with a speed which the gripman seemed powerless to check. If we are idle and shiftless by choice, we shall be nerveless and powerless by necessity. Lincoln was in his grave, and Johnson, even with his vetoes, was powerless. The accused is powerless to remove any name from the list unless for over-age or non-residence. It is a very physical business, squeezing out or overlaying the spiritual in men, though powerless wholly to extinguish it. Widely present as the pneumococcus is, we know well that it is powerless for harm except in unhealthful surroundings. Saronia had been powerless to help, and dared not question the vengeance of Hecate. The hideous curse was inappeasable, and the doomed victim spell-bound, powerless to resist. That the judicature is powerless to place the real responsibility on the proper shoulders. Within the circle of their light the poison of serpents and Worms is powerless. But the Germans were powerless in the austro-hungarian economic departments. Show More Sentences Silas sank into his chair powerless, under the double presence of an inexplicable surprise and a hurrying influx of memories. As antler lay in the deep drifts, she seemed powerless to move. His hatred, like a powerless though furious wave, was broken against the strong ascendancy which Mercedes exercised over him. Was Bushido powerless to stay the current of commercial dishonor? They found on earth, nearly powerless, Ask and Embla, void of destiny. Similarly, no gender effect was found on their restrained actions or feelings including feeling loneness or using powerless languages. When peace was agreed upon in September Bethlen Gabor was powerless. She led Alnaschar into a chamber filled with coffers packed with gold, which he gazed at with an admiration he was powerless to conceal. Let us hope that our theory is correct, and that their shafts are powerless against minds cognizant of their unreality. All Lucas's threats, all Leslie's entreaties, were powerless and vain. I held her as though all life's turgid danger were powerless to touch us. A man wholly without prejudice would be powerless and uninfluential. Armies and navies will be absolutely powerless to advance against it. So situated, she was powerless to check Jo, who seemed possessed by a spirit of mischief, and talked away as volubly as the lady. Thus, while in life the great whale's body may have been a real terror to his foes, in his death his ghost becomes a powerless panic to a world. To my eyes the sun seemed dim, its beams were powerless to warm me. In this particular, his influence upon her was equally powerless with mine. The most puissant pen is powerless, the brightest colour too cold. Prussia has always declared that Buonaparte is invincible, and that all Europe is powerless before him. The ameer was powerless, and, indeed, his goodwill was more than doubtful. Show More Sentences I took the knife from her powerless hand, and she fainted in my arms. The Dulcians have no weapons, so when the evil Dominators and their robotic minions, the Quarks, invade, the pacifist inhabitants are powerless to resist. The gentle force of attainder or confiscation or death which, as you are aware, these new Sophists and educators who are the public, apply when their words are powerless. I felt powerless and furious at what felt like an injustice. She may have had no particular feeling for him, but succumbed to his wish from propinquity or idleness, to find then that she was powerless in a snare of her own contriving. Obi Anorou hit a low strike past an unsighted Tony Breeden, who was powerless to stop the second goal minutes later, Conal Platt firing home with the aid of a deflection. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of powerless? Words that rhyme with powerless What is the adverb for powerless? What is the adjective for powerless? What is the noun for powerless? Translations for powerless Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words powering power-hungry powerhouses powerhouse powerfulness powerfully powerlessly powerlessness powerlifter powerlifting power nap power of attorney 9-letter Words Starting With p po pow powe power powerl powerle powerles