Word: powerlessly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Luis Obispo, began working with insects fossilized in ancient amber and the microbes, presumably long dead, that their bodies contained. The problem, noted an exasperated Cano, was that live bacterial colonies kept popping up in the samples. And, oddly enough, the super-clean procedures followed by his laboratory appeared powerless to prevent the unwelcome intrusions...
...belief that abortion is the unjustified taking of a human life and an unassailable faith in the power of love. The pro-life movement isn't about anger. The movement is about love and the expansion of love. It's about extending society's protection to a group of powerless and voiceless individuals. They may not yet like us (yet), but they're still a part of our human community...
...Dean Jewett decides to move to complete randomization, house personalities will be utterly characteristics remaining will be location and facilities. All this will be meaningless, of course, because students will be powerless to choose any of these things. Students who want a river view will wind up staring at the grass in the Quad; students who want weight rooms will get darkrooms; and students who want singles will wind up crammed into a walk-through suite with n+1 zillion roommates...
...revolution was steeped in ethics, non-violence and moral solidarity. These qualitities emerged from Havel's widely disseminated--though publicly banned--essays like "Power to the Powerless" and "Letter to Dr. Gustav Husak...
Indeed, all of this paperwork on human rights is essentially nothing but an often powerless tool on the negotiation table. It never really turns anything around. China is still ruled by a stubborn Communist Party, and the homeless people hanging out in Harvard Square are still homeless...