Antonym: powerful. Similar words: peerless, power, empower, powerful, superpower, power cut, powerhouse, willpower. Meaning: ['paʊə(r)lɪs] adj. lacking power.
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121) Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.
122) Though he could see them walking towards the chasm, he was powerless to save them.
123) What Jesus gathered into His life from His prayers we can never know; but this we do know, that the prayerless life is a powerless life.
124) Even those well-intentioned enough to want to do their bit, can quickly find themselves feeling powerless and paralysed in the face of an issue of this scale.
125) Then powerful and the powerless try to live in concert.
126) Life satisfaction was explained by whether people had a partner or how subjectively powerless they felt (a question designed to access anomie).
127) She knew they would be powerless against the supernatural lucidity of her br ain.
128) Powerless etching: A method of etching letterpress printing plates in one step.
129) From the spectrum of corporation law, Ultra vires has been proved to be powerless in protecting the interests of shareholders and creditors.
130) On the other hand, the perceptions of children typically included "being pressed and powerless", "being prudent and glancing" and "escaping from step-in the land-mine and getting released".
131) Since the agreements had no accumulated stocks, they were powerless to hold down prices.
132) Tess's powerless characteristics and compellable characteristics made her empty of the intelligence to struggle.
133) A LION , worn out with years and powerless from disease,[http://Sentencedict.com] lay on ground point of death.
134) Life satisfaction was explained by whether people had a partner or how subjectively powerless they feltanomie.
135) Booting up from a powerless state, also called a cold boot, will restore the printer's default settings and you may be able to carry on.
136) "We don't want to be seen as just the powerless victims of climate change," said Patricia Cochran, chair of the summit and an Inupiat native of Nome, Alaska, in a press release.
137) With the increase in homework, is beginning to feel powerless and times to beat a retreat.
138) If you go to the root core of mental as well as physical problems in people, you will somehow encounter the belief that they are powerless, unworthy, unlovable, lonely and doomed.
139) The townsfolk feel powerless because they have little say in the outcome, says Victor Torres, the Peruvian co-author of the book, "The ChineseEconomy and Extractive Industries: Challenges for Peru."
140) The authorities seem powerless to stem the rising tide of violence.
141) It was blatant seduction, but he was powerless to stop himself.
142) Sometimes it can be fun to hang out in your sweats all day, but if you're feeling lethargic, powerless, or directionless, not getting dressed is going to make you feel worse.
143) Women's subordinate and powerless position is clearly revealed after a thorough analysis of gender difference in couching initiative and its interpretation.
144) Sheffield did not have a no - trade clause, so he was powerless in this situation.
145) Take control of the situation instead of feeling overwhelmed or powerless.
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