powerless

IPA: pˈaʊɝɫʌs

Examples of "powerless" in Sentences

Powerlessness leads us to prayer.
This powerlessness needs to cease.
He was powerless to quell the riot.
The resistant was powerless to resist.
She was powerless to stop the flow of events.
The old feudalists were crushed and powerless.
The king realized that he is no more powerless.
The portrayal of the Authority is weak and powerless.
Language and rhetoric are the last weapons of the powerless.
The President is the head of state, and a powerless figurehead.
[…] Admitting to being powerless is not an admission of defeat, but one of liberation.
Do you assert that satire turned against the powerless is good clean fun and not vulgar?
But, making congress – controlled by democarts by the way – all powerful and the president powerless is not helpful.
Why do you even bother electing a president if you want the office to remain powerless and only accountable to a slim partisan minority?
The only way that I would be powerless is to allow the whims of a corrupt society to micro-manage me to the point that I don't believe in myself anymore and where my choices are limited by someone else's shallow goals.
Olbermann did, however, take issue with what he viewed as "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart's comparison of MSNBC to Fox News, saying, "Sticking up for the powerless is not the moral equivalent of sticking up for the powerful."