0 the condition or feeling of having no power:
A significant cause of stress in the workplace is a sense of powerlessness and lack of control.
As hostages, they experienced humiliation and utter powerlessness.
She still had vivid memories of the horrible powerlessness of childhood.
The powerlessness of developing countries within the global economic system has been exposed.
He argues, however, that women's relegation to the private sphere cannot be equated with powerlessness.
This global interpretation, which is not based in contextualized empirical analysis, assumes a direct mapping among discourse, femininity, and powerlessness.
The findings show that service providers experience significant levels of concern and frustration and a sense of powerlessness in meeting the needs of such clients.
The distorted visual images of this film also express the powerlessness of the gaze to sustain its object.
And it provides a further reason, in addition to current poverty and powerlessness, to see a land reform program as desirable on remedial grounds.
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