Word: powerlessly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...will smile knowingly, powerless to counteract my displacing magic, to set the universe right. Then, she'll usher me in and administer the exam for which I had five slow and leisurely days to study...
...gave away the whole store," Vega says. "The school committee remains powerless...
...lamentably slow in deploying UNTAC. Troops came piecemeal, and some were at first immobilized by lack of logistic support. Despite the large staff now in place, UNTAC has had difficulty asserting control over the Hun Sen administration. In the provinces, the handful of U.N. civil servants found themselves powerless in the face of entrenched local officialdom backed by all the government's resources, including police and troops...
Under normal circumstances, I would have spoken up. Under normal circumstances, in fact, I would have delivered a small lecture, in which I explained exactly where I thought this gentleman could wave his book. But today, I was voiceless, powerless. I let him pass me, and waited longer in line...
Buster said this lopsided figure reflects theneighborhood's lack of political influence. "Thisshouldn't be played out as the powerful dictatingto the powerless," Buster said. "We need to beheard...