Example sentences for: powerless

How can you use “powerless” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Reich's liberal vision--a leaner but more activist government--was abandoned by the president who promised to implement it, leaving Reich frustrated and powerless.

  • Our system gridlocks when a president becomes powerless.

  • Ethanol is a ludicrous fuel made out of corn, at a cost far higher than the petroleum it replaces, produced with a huge government tax subsidy, which started during the energy crisis a quarter-century ago and has long since become a classic case study of stupid policy entrenched by special interests (in this case farmers and Archer Daniels Midland, the company responsible for the fabulous discovery that if you tell the government what to do in commercials on every Sunday talk show, the government apparently is powerless to resist).

  • While new technology has made financial data more available, without the ability to translate that data into relevant, understandable information, decisionmakers are left powerless.

  • We accept these claims even though we know the candidate has never spent a moment representing the powerless before the campaign began, and that it would never even occur to him to be bothered with such matters once the election is over.


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