Word: powerlessly
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...Duehay said the city is virtually powerless to control the landlords' growing financial ambitions...
TIME writer-reporter John Cloud believes the numbers reveal that "the Pentagon as an institution isn't behind the policy." Implementation, he says, "largely depends on the commitment of the commanding officer. The situation is one in which the commander-in-chief is largely powerless to enforce his own policy." Though the discharge numbers are up -- and something of an embarrassment for the Pentagon -- the new policy has improved the situation for gays in one significant way: "Homosexuals no longer get a dishonorable discharge when they leave," says Cloud. "That means they get to keep their benefits...
...wealth. A great part of the force that carried out the attack came from certain gulf countries that have lost their sovereignty. Now infidels walk everywhere on the land where Muhammad was born and where the Koran was revealed to him. The situation is serious. The rulers have become powerless. Muslims should carry out their obligations, since the rulers of the region have accepted the invasion of their countries. These countries belong to Islam and not the rulers...
...Despite his individual merits andaccomplishments, he never hesitated to lend a handto the poor, the voiceless, the powerless and thedowntrodden," he said...
While government officials across the country publicly embrace tax-abatement programs like Louisiana's, the employees involved in the actual administration of them are often quietly critical. In Louisiana, as in other states, TIME encountered those outraged by the escalating handouts but fearful of losing their jobs and powerless to stop the process. A Baton Rouge state official, who agreed to talk anonymously, said some companies today practice a form of "extortion" in Louisiana--they demand tax breaks yet give back very little in return. At one time, he said, companies might actually create new jobs in exchange...