Word: powerlessly
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...needs. His Cabinet swiftly approved a bill extending the life of the special Court of Military Justice, and the bill was passed by De Gaulle's Assembly 271-170 (the Senate last week stubbornly voted the bill down but, like Britain's House of Lords, is powerless to overturn decisions of the lower house...
...some record for a monarch who once seemed ineffectual and powerless to stave off the growing discontent of Iran's poor masses. A decade before, few would have imagined that workers and farmers would be crying his slogans, waving his banners. But there they were on the eve of the big referendum called to give the nation's yes or no to his sweeping plans for aid to needy rural and city Iranians. Women, who got the vote for the first time in Iran's history, gathered at polling places to shout, "Long live Mohammed Reza Shah...
...Park's constitutional document. Fact was, it would permit the soldiers of the military junta to exchange their khaki uniforms for mufti, and continue ruling as before. Contemptuous of the "parliamentary impotence'' of civilian politicians. General Park reduced the National Assembly to the role of a powerless rubber stamp. Full powers were given to the popularly elected President. Leading candidate for that office, and almost certain winner in elections next March, is General Park himself...
...they looked somewhat like bandits fleeing the bobbies. Some were doing precisely that. Smash-and-grab robbers used the occasion to carry off thousands of pounds worth of loot from London's jewelers and banks. Scotland Yard's crack Flying Squad, reduced to a crawl, was virtually powerless to stop them...
...there is another way in which this politicking is relevant to the failure of Congress; it makes one wonder why we haven't heard more of this sort of talk. The President's very brilliance on the stump gives the lie to claim that he was politically powerless against a recalcitrant Congress...