| 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. |
| Finally, when given the opportunity to effect change, many powerless people choose the path of least resistance. |
| This in no way means that God is powerless, as some critics of kenotic theology have complained. |
| Pilots had some control over their fate, which gave them a status above the powerless foot soldiers in the trenches below. |
| He feels helpless and powerless to do anything to change things for the better. |
| And then it finally sank in that he was beyond all hope, and that she was powerless to stop him. |
