Word: powerless
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...outcomes as the major cause for concern. For example, "one Black elected official proportionately represented on a small city council operating by majority vote may be isolated and ignored." In other words, the only change effected by tokenism is to put Black representatives, rather than Black voters, in a powerless minority...
...what the approaches to hell must be like," says Cisneros. "All they breed besides crime is anger and despair. If we continue as we are, we'll lose another generation of young people." And then, he adds, as public support erodes because the nonworking or underemployed residents are politically powerless, "the projects will fade away and the number of homeless will soar even more." That scenario would be hell for everyone, not just the poor...
...deal with Muhammad. After all, they couldn't very well infringe on his constitutionally guaranteed freedom of speech, could they? That, at least, was the excuse given by Howard officials, who deplored a student group's invitation to Muhammad to speak at their university, but claimed they were powerless to intervene...
Certainly not by relying on data gathered from questionnaires and advisory groups said Williams, the union president. "Advisory groups are powerless by definition," she said...
...husband. When she dismembered John Bobbitt, she was motivated not by fear but by anger. John Bobbitt's penis was a symbol of all the pain and degradation she had been forced to suffer at his hands. By emasculating him, she hoped to make him feel as worthless and powerless as she herself must have throughout their twisted relationship. Her emotions may have been valid, her rage real. Yet unlike many other women who fight back against their batterers, her action was not an act of self-defense. It was an act of revenge...