powerless

Example Sentences

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All those moving parts for a player who only made it onto the park as a sub fielder while Australia were still mathematically alive, with Smith powerless to stop Sri Lanka and Pathum Nissanka's charge.

From BBC

"You kind of feel like you feel a bit unimportant; you feel like you're powerless. You feel like nothing is being done."

From BBC

He also said the organisation was "powerless to constrain the nuclear programme" of Tehran.

From BBC

"He is profoundly sorry that powerless and vulnerable women and girls were not given the protection they deserved."

From BBC

"If there's going to be a war and you are on a settlement, of course you feel powerless about that."

From Barron's