0 the condition or feeling of having no power: --
As hostages, they experienced humiliation and utter powerlessness.
A significant cause of stress in the workplace is a sense of powerlessness and lack of control.
It is suggested that these children are socialised into accepting poverty and powerlessness and implicitly collude with the inevitability of continuing disadvantage.
In addition, the dependence of the workers on language "brokers" to convey their grievances to management causes feelings of embarrassment, humiliation, and powerlessness.
The issue was not economic hardship - there was none, he claims - but, rather, it was political powerlessness.
People who are acutely aware of their own powerlessness teeter on the boundary between anger and despair.
Psychological concomitants include feelings of impending danger, powerlessness, apprehension and tension.
For the most part, informants acknowledged and identified discriminatory practices in the health system, but portrayed a sense of powerlessness.
In those scenes, we worked on the idea of these women's powerlessness in the face of latent male violence.
An inability to handle colleagues' worries and distress increased the sense of powerlessness and fear at work.
