powerlessness

How To Use powerlessness In A Sentence

• She often writes about the powerlessness of women.
• A story panel iterated a simplified version of the story I had told that elided any reference to class inequality or the powerlessness of his position.
• For northeastern tribes immersed in relationships of obligation and mutual reliance among kin as well as with the manitous, or spiritual beings, that inhabited the natural world around them, a stance of neediness and even powerlessness had a very different significance than in societies like the United States that stressed social and economic independence.
• The powerlessness and frustration of the local police, who appear to have no grip at all on who their enemy might be, resonates elsewhere.
• This ongoing process begins with the first step through which the alcoholic admits to his or her powerlessness over alcohol.
• Women's representation helps keep them inplace of relative powerlessness.
• Across the Western world, commentators of various sorts have noted this growing public resignation to powerlessness.
• Her resistance to Dracula derives from frustrating experiences of powerlessness.
• And by branding itself a new political movement, it dignifies powerlessness by presenting it as protest.
• Along with the anger there is frustration at the powerlessness of people of good will to affect this tragic situation or to reverse the broader regional drift toward more war, internal strife, and injustice.