Примеры powerless

• The powers that previous mayors enjoyed were seriously impeded, and they became powerless to solve citizens' economic and social problems.

• Disruption of these connections leads to despair, perception of life as meaningless, and the self as powerless.

• But its elements of stability may be powerless to prevent the conversion of an institution to a service for which it was never intended.

• All nineteenth-century melodramas suggest a need for radical change in the lives of the powerless and the oppressed, and in this they are inherently radical.

• The attention to the practices of performances, therefore, makes clear the policies are not simply acting on passive, powerless performers and audiences.

• For most royalists such a settlement promised only a limp, powerless church and a disorienting religious pluralism.

• He is somewhat cognizant of this, especially as he parts with his savings, yet remains powerless to stop himself.

• Throughout the ages, political entrepreneurs have sought, often with considerable success, to deflect blame for their country's woes to powerless groups.