Word: powerlessness
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...times, a higher power seems responsible for certain acts, but gazing up to heaven or back to their Jewish heritage, most of his people have discovered that God is dead and that the only thing that guides them are their own doubts and confusion. The elderly doctor feels "powerless to be other than he was," and this realization eventually dawns on most...
...committee was embroiled in debate from the start. Shareholder controversy had moved out of the Financial Report and into the streets with the Mass Hall occupation, and skeptics predicted that the new ACSR would be powerless and not very responsive to activist or student demands...
...United Nations General Assembly revoked South Africa's mandate over Southwest Africa's mandate over Southwest Africa, which it had ruled since 1919, and turned legal authority over the province--renamed Namibia--to a Council of Namibia, which has sat powerless in New York ever since. In 1970, the Security Council endorsed that decision and declared South Africa's presence in Namibia as illegal. The U.S. government has warned American firms still operating in the province--and still making payments to South Africa--that it will not protect them when the Namibians take over, but plenty of companies are continuing...
...like. The Yemenis said they had heard about it last summer from one Baruch Zaki Mizrachi, an alleged Israeli spy who confessed (probably under torture) that he had been assigned to thwart any land-based attack at Bab el Mandeb. Israel promptly denied it-and still does. Meanwhile, militarily powerless Yemen can do nothing about Israel's penetration except complain...
...distance himself from open involvement in any similar embarrassing crisis, Bok created a joint student-faculty-alumni committee with only advisory powers on the narrowest scope of investment-related issues. He then opposed direct elections for choosing undergraduates to serve on even so powerless a committee...