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61) Because all the control lay with a central bureaucracy-the local housing authority-residents were powerless to enforce standards of behavior or evict criminals.

62) Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical. Blaise Pascal 

63) Without influence in Delhi or among the Tamils she was powerless to sway events.

64) The fact was he felt like a child again, powerless against forces he could not understand - let alone control.

65) Children are often powerless to fight back when they are treated unfairly.

66) The security guards were powerless to hold back the enraged crowd.

67) But unlike the peripheral baboons, who are physically controlled by the dominant ones, the peripheral men are not powerless.

68) Like women in patriarchal societies, Demeter is powerless to wage war against Olympus.

69) It dates back to 1863, to a Victorian London of slums, of gaslight, of the powerless and the poor.

70) People tend to feel that they are relatively powerless in politics when acting alone-but there might be strength in numbers.

71) Individually, workers may feel that they are severely limited, even powerless, in what they can do.

72) It was like a powerless head of state paying a visit to foreign subjects about whom he knew little.

73) It just hits you like some spiteful virus and down you go, knowing it's crazy but powerless to resist.

74) And yet still she stood there, transfixed by the demands in his eyes, powerless to move.

75) Blocked by the Democrats in the Senate, Bush appeared powerless.

76) Livingstone has opposed the scheme since taking office but has been powerless to act against it.

77) A quadriplegic who is nearly deaf and has failing eyesight, the 61-year-old sheik would seem to be powerless.

78) It was a trend that rules and regulations were powerless to halt.

79) He had never dreamed a person could be so powerless in his power.

80) While the powerful seem to get away with serious crimes, the powerless commit less serious offences and get prison.

81) That leaves employers powerless to protect against conflict-of-interest situations, several experts noted.

82) The average citizen feels completely powerless faced with the rising tide of crime and violence.

83) Mogg and Davidson are wrong in saying that governments are powerless to stop it happening again.

84) Each side generates a discourse that is powerless and almost meaningless in the linguistic world of the other.

85) In the absence of a direct threat to order the public opinion which had caused Loris-Melikov such anxiety appeared powerless.

86) But the building is gradually crumbling away, and the local council says it's powerless to do anything about it.

87) Although we all thought the decision was unfair, we were powerless to change it.

88) Hurtling towards him in the swirling fog was a huge lorry powerless to stop on the icy carriageway.

88) Sentencedict.com is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find excellent sentences for a large number of words.

89) Schools may feel powerless to alter a situation in which wider economic and political forces have such a crucial influence.

90) How can we support black individuals who feel powerless and isolated?