Word: powerlessly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Thus, given the tight race that is bound to ensue, we at The Crimson thought it only fair to impart to the candidates the knowledge we have gained from several years of reporting on elections. To our fellow students brave enough to run for the most disreputable, powerless and ineffectual extracurricular office at Harvard, we offer the following advice...
...People who have no one else to speak for them feel that the press is their only outlet," Koppel told The Crimson in an interview. "To use the old cliche: journalists [are to] discomfort the powerful and comfort the powerless...
...challenge to Arafat is partly generational. The kids on the streets are unlikely to listen to the cautionary advice of elders who they see as enfeebled by decades of Israeli occupation. In the face of their powerless parents, the "authority" projected by demagogues hawking martyrdom and the promise that sacrifice and confrontation will earn their freedom has an irresistible appeal for many young Palestinians. And, of course, parents may have a hard time stopping their children from doing what they themselves grew up doing - after all, the occupation began 33 years ago. Arafat should know better than anyone, because...
Some governors who have been elected to the Senate have found it a disappointing experience. One day you're a chief executive; the next you're a powerless freshman. But Mel Carnahan was hopeful. A few weeks before his death last week in a private-plane crash, Carnahan told TIME that he enjoyed serving in Missouri's statehouse and that he "revered" his late father, who served in Congress from 1945 to 1960. "I would like to go there and do my own version of what he did," Carnahan said...
Some governors who have been elected to the Senate have found it a disappointing experience. One day you're a chief executive; next you're a powerless freshman. But Mel Carnahan was hopeful. A few weeks before his death last week in a private plane crash, Carnahan told Time that he enjoyed serving in Missouri's statehouse and that he "revered" his late father, who served in Congress from 1945 to 1960. "I would like to go there and do my own version of what he did," Carnahan said...